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Title American short-story writers since World War II. Second series / Gwen Crane and Patrick Meanor, editors.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2000.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 218
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 218.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Toni Cade Babbara (1939-1995) -- Robert Bausch (1945- ) -- Ann Beattie (1947- ) -- Madison Smartt Bell (1957- ) -- Doris Betts (1932- ) -- Paul Bowles (1910- ) -- T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948- ) -- Frederick Busch (1941- ) -- Hortense Calisher (1911- ) -- R.V. Cassill (1919- ) -- Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) -- Rick DeMarinis (1934- ) -- Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) -- Irvin Faust (1924- ) -- Merrill Joan Gerber (1938- ) -- William Goyen (1915-1983) -- Shirley Ann Grau (1929- ) -- Amy Hempel (1951- ) -- Janet Kauffman (1945-) -- Michael Martone (1955- ) -- William Maxwell (1908- ) -- Wright Morris (1910-1998) -- Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) -- Grace Paley (1922- ) -- Reynolds Price (1933- ) -- James Purdy (1923- ) -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1939- ) -- Elizabeth Spencer (1921-) -- Richard Stern (1928- ) -- Peter Taylor (1917-1994) -- Paul Theroux (1941) --John Updike (1932- ) -- Robley Wilson (1930- ).
Summary Focuses on how the declining market for short-story writers after World War II saw the migration of these writers to universities where they not only continued to write, but established creative writing classes that would in turn inspire and develop new generations of writers of various genres.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 413 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Short stories, American.
Short stories, American.
Genre/Form Short stories, American.
Biographies.
Added Author Crane, Gwen.
Meanor, Patrick.
Gale Group.
ISBN 0787631272
9780787631277