Truth in Bookz

In order to be non-fiction, a novel should have no fiction in it. Fiction is defined as the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration. So if there is anything untrue or imaginary in a non-fiction novel, then it is no longer non-fiction because there is fiction in it.

I don't think half-truths are really acceptable. Obviously a memoir is the author's own account of their own events, but the author should at least be able to back up everything that they include, otherwise they could write that they had the ability to turn into a baby seal as a child, still calling their work with an obvious fictional element a memoir. Even if there is one untrue event in the novel, like baby seal morphing, then it shouldn't be a memoir, or non-fiction. Authors shouldn't be able to say whatever they want about their life and let people eat is up as truth. It's unfair.

I do not think there needs to be a line between genres, because genres typecast and categorize authors and novels too much. When it comes to ficion vs. non-fiction, I think that the line is quite clear anyway. If everything in the novel is true and happened, then it's non-fiction, because it contains no fiction. If there is something fictional in the book, then it becomes fiction.