Question

What makes South!, a memoir by Ernest Shackleton, fall under the nonfiction genre?

Answer 1

The narrator uses his imagination to weave an emotional story.

Answer 2

Memoirs are made with real information.

Explanation:

Ernest Shackleton wrote South! to tell the story of his last expedition in Antarctica, this work is considered a non fiction genre since it has information of real events that were lived by real people in real places, that's one of the fundaments of non fiction that what you are talking about can be presented as factual information. Even when it has a personal point of view, it is still based in reality.