nonliterary
- s marked by lack of affectation or pedantry
- This biography aims "to trace in detail Mark Twain's career as a writing man, passing over lightly or ignoring, his multifarious nonliterary doings.
- Such nonliterary affairs as archaeology, space, education, psychiatry, travel and even car racing (in 1963 it commissioned an article, Speed and Women, by Stirling Moss) now .
- Nowadays, the most successful editors are often nonliterary chaps with a well-developed knack for betting right on the question: What will the most readers buy?.