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Old 01-20-2009, 12:09 PM   #508
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Originally Posted by octothorp View Post
Question about picking series: what constitutes a series within the nonfiction genre (or a series strictly limited to the fiction category in this draft)? If an author does three books that each explore a different facet of one particular area of study and whose ideas are all linked together, forming a comprehensive picture of that subject, and these books are frequently referred to as a trilogy, does that count as a series?
I would say yes. So, for instance, you could take the entirety of Taylor Branch's three-part biography of Martin Luther King, if you wanted to. Is that what you mean?
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