I’m not sure that non-fiction is a new kind of door. I think we’ve had it around for a long time, but one of the things I think is happening is that people are writing biographies, biographical material about lesser-known individuals whose achievements are worthy and worthwhile. The Bass Reeves book on catching outlaws that was — has been a great seller apparently.
The Bessie Coleman book, an aviator. This year there’s one on Misty Copeland, a ballerina. So, I think there is that stretching out and reaching out for names beyond Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, wonderful as they are. So, yes, non-fiction offers great opportunities also for subjects. People, African Americans in the whaling industry or kinds of things that we don’t tend to think about and know about.
