faction

faction,
a term coined c. 1970 to describe fiction based on and mingled with fact, at first applied particularly to American works of fiction such as In Cold Blood ( 1966 ) by Capote and The Armies of the Night ( 1968 ) by Mailer . The genre has continued to flourish, as the historical novel has gained a new lease of seriousness: works such as Keneally 's Schindler's Ark, based on documentary evidence, interviews, and research, may be classified as fiction or non-fiction. This particular example was classified as fiction in Australia and the UK, but published as non-fiction under the title Schindler's List in the USA.