non-fictionaladj.

1866 Atlas 7 July 5/1 The non-fictional matter of ‘Macmillan’ [i.e. Macmillan's Magazine] is somewhat flat and heavy.

1894 Library 6 275 Clerkenwell... Extra tickets issued for non-fictional works.

1911 A. Bennett Let. 28 July (1966) I. 159 This clause would prevent me from publishing anything whatever non-fictional until they issued the book.

1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn ii. i. 92 The author's right, as author, to furnish himself, as hero, with everything he lacked in his non-fictional life.

1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising v. 54 Credibility is a dominant consideration in both fictional and non-fictional indirect address.

1995 Interzone Mar. 57/1 Sterling's experiences in the wonderland of information technology industries and the wilder fringes of Cyberia (some of which were chronicled in his non-fictional The Hacker Crackdown).