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06.11.2013 Feature Article

Top three Non-Fiction Writers you MUST Read

Top three Non-Fiction Writers you MUST Read
06.11.2013 LISTEN

If you're a committed and consummate professional like me—writer, painter, plumber, pianist, entrepreneur, or anything else—then you have as much interest in reading as I do and have probably heard of or read Seth Godin, Steven Pressfield, and Malcolm Gladwell.

No? Then let me tell you about them.

The first is a marketing genius, and a no-nonsense, no bullshits personal development guru; the second a prose-stylist par excellence—almost the Joseph Conrad of Creative Non-fiction writing. The third, Malcolm Gladwell, is a top-notch journalist with much insight into human society and its workings, and what it actually takes to be a success.

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is an American writer, entrepreneur, and a speaker with an inexhaustible well of inspiration and creativity at his disposal. His blog, sethgodin.typepad.com, is regularly updated and recently reached its 5000th post. In other words, Seth is in this for the long haul, has been doing this for a long while and knows what he's up to.

Besides blogging without fail, he has also authored 15 books so far, and three of them had been bestsellers. His books the Icarus Deception, the Dip, and Lynchpin are essential reading for all professionals. His other works are equally resourceful and worth reading, but the three named are recommended for starters.

Steven Pressfield

If you're a professional writer or aspiring to be one, don't miss Pressfield. His two marquee non-fiction The War of Art and its sequel Do the Work both make a veritable feast of wisdom, wit, and hands-on know-how—with their gist being what it takes to be creative and continuously productive in any field of endeavor—be it writing a bestseller, launching a business, starting a philanthropic project, or getting married and raising children.

His fiction Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance are also profoundly moving. Not books you should miss. Absolutely not.

Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell is a British-Canddian journalist with four New York Times bestsellers to his name. And not without reasons. He's one of those journalists to whom research is a delight rather than drudgery, and he shares loads of stories in his writings; stories that succinctly nail points being illustrated, and make his works engaging reads.

A writer with an engaging style and loads of well-researched stories to share; stories that lay bare the truth about success—be it a business blooming or a message spreading or an epidemic going endemic.

Outliers: the Story of Success and the Tipping Point are recommended.

NB: This article was first published at scduoghah.wordpress.com; the author Stanley Courage Duoghah is a self-educated writer and poet based in Ghana.

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