Bruce P. Ballenger

Bruce Ballenger is the author of seven books, all works of nonfiction, including best-selling textbooks for first-year college writing. His latest book, Crafting Truth: Short Studies in Creative Nonfiction, is a study of how the best American creative nonfiction writers tell true stories. Ballenger has taught college writing for twenty-five years. He worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and teacher Donald Murray at the University of New Hampshire, where he earned his PhD. For the last fifteen years, he's been on the English faculty at Boise State University, where he teaches creative nonfiction, composition and rhetoric, writing for radio, and the literature of the essay. Ballenger lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife Karen, and two daughters, Julia and Becca.

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