Truthful...Or Not?

In my mind, a book needs to be completely truthful to be classified as non-fiction. Otherwise it would need to be considered realistic fiction. I think that the authors of these “half-truths” should have a disclaimer in the back explaining how their own lives inspired the books. I also think that a publisher should not accept a book as non-fiction if they wouldn’t accept it as fiction. I don’t really understand why they would want to do this anyways, or how they feel this would make more or less money. I don’t think that we need precise lines between genres because it would allow for more creativity on the part of the author. However, I do feel that books needs to at least be generally classified to help the reader know what type of novel it is. It would be really annoying to pick up a book and think it was going to be historical fiction only to find out it is non-fiction. Authors shouldn’t try to classify their books as something they are not just because they think that they would sell more. The point of writing should be to create a work of art that gives something to the reader, whether that is hope, excitement, etc., not to become rich. If an author used his/her “truthful” book to get money, and then it turned out that it was all a lie, I don’t think that is right. It does matter because people donated money because of that story, not because they wanted the author to get rich and famous.