Noting the general lack of attention to the teaching of nonfiction, this focused journal issue presents 11 articles containing suggestions for ways to incorporate various nonfiction materials into the English class. Article titles and authors in the journal are (1) "A Marriage that Works: Early American Literature in Context" (S. Bouley); (2) "Teaching Biography and Autobiography in the Arizona Territory" (J. McGinnis); (3) "Our Heritage of Informational Books: Travels to Dark Continents, Lessons of Caterpillars, and Observations of Marsh Hawks" (M. G. Ferry); (4) "Teaching the Essay: E. B. White's 'Second Tree from the Corner'" (S. J. Treharne); (5) "On Being a Scientific Booby" (N. Mairs); (6) "A Scientist in the Classroom: Applications of Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' for Teachers of English" (D. H. Roen); (7) "Human Rights: Materials for a Secondary Unit" (S. Totten); (8) "Aristotle" (C. Moneyhun and M. Diogenes); (9) "'It Must Be Good': The High Craft of the Lowly Magazine Article" (J. Beck); (10) "Watergate Confessionals: History as Literature and Vice Versa" (M. B. Fleming); and (11) "'Fiction as Nonfiction': An Agenda for Theories of Fiction in English Classrooms" (S. Kahnum). (FL)