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I’d say history, science, and memoirs, at least, should all be separate, with a catch-all for other nonfiction that doesn’t fit those categories.
I am inclined personally to separate biographies from memoirs because a biography is real nonfiction, based on research, whereas a memoir is based on memory and often tends to be more creative—certainly authors are meant to only include things they believe to be true, but it’s filtered through their own (limited) perspective and (fallible) memory, and we often accept things like dialogue in memoirs that we know can only be an approximation.
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