What is "nonfictional"

Usage examples of "nonfictional".

I spent January reading and rereading it, partly out of envy, because there it was, in cold print between hard covers, the same place, the same people, some of the same doctors, including a thinly disguised Bolshakov, in a nonfictional memoir that was distinctly Chekhovian, and, despite being deliberately oversimplified or nonarch in style, was greatly readable.

Since very little has been written about northeastern Ontario, either fictional or nonfictional, I was forced to rely on self-published memoirs, obtained through interlibrary loans, for a great deal of my research.

But there was also the secondary aim of offering a representative sampling of his different nonfictional modes -- autobiographical.