Introduction 1. Journalism and the rise of fiction, 1700-1875: Daniel Defoe to George Eliot 2. Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser 3. Reporters-turned-novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today: Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion 4. The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch: Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond Epilogue: the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures Appendix: the major journalist-literary figures: their writings and positions in journalism.