García Márquez's novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), originally begun as a piece of journalism, is based on a historical incident in which a group of brothers vow to murder the man who ruined their sister's honor. García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work.

Max Mermelstein married a Colombian and soon found himself enmeshed in the world's most powerful drug cartels. In Inside the Cocaine Cartel: The Riveting Eyewitness Account of Life inside the Colombian Cartel (1993), Mermelstein, a star witness against Pablo Escobar, recounts his involvement with the cocaine traffickers, including his eventual betrayal of them.

The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1998), edited by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, collects some sixty selections of literary journalism written by authors from different countries and in...