Wikipedia defines non-fiction as "an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition."

This defination goes a little more in dept of what I thought non-fiction really was. I always just thought it was true. Like fiction is a made believe story, I thought that non-fiction was a re-telling of something that really had happened. Almost like a newspaper article or a biography only about an event instead of about a person.