| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 2
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 2.
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
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| Contents |
James Agee - Louis Auchincloss - James Baldwin - John Barth - Donald Barthelme - Saul Bellow - Thomas Berger - Vance Bourjaily - Ray Bradbury - Richard Brautigan - William S. Burroughs - Hortense Calisher - Truman Capote - John Cheever - Evan S. Connell, Jr. - Robert Coover - Joan Didion - E. L. Doctorow - Stanley Elkin - Ralph Ellison - Irvin Faust - Shelby Foote - William Price Fox - Bruce Jay Friedman - William Gaddis - Ernest J. Gaines - John Gardner - George Garrett - William Gass - Herbery Gold - William Goyen - Shirley Ann Grau - Mark Harris - John Hawkes - Joseph Heller - George V. Higgins - Chester Himes - James Jones - Erica Jong - Jack Kerouac - Ken Kesey - Jerzy Kosinski - Alison Lurie - Norman Mailer - Bernard Malamud - Wallace Markfield - Mary McCarthy - Carson McCullers - Thomas McGuane - Larry McMurtry - Kenneth Millar - Steven Millhauser - Wright Morris - Vladimir Nabokov - Anais Nin - Joyce Carol Oates - Flannery O'Connor - Gil Orlovitz - Walker Percy - Reynolds Price - James Purdy - Thomas Pynchon - Ishmael Reed - Philip Roth - J. D. Salinger - Hubert Selby, Jr. - Susan Sontag - Terry Southern - Jean Stafford - William Styron - Harvey Swados - Paul Theroux - John Updike - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Edward Lewis Wallant - Robert Penn Warren - Eudora Welty - John A. Williams - Calder Willingham, Jr. - Richard Yates. |
| Summary |
Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then. Extended biographical and critical essays are given for authors who are generally regarded as major forces in contemporary literature, while less elaborate entries are given for other authors based on the author's influence and size of published body of work. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Original Version |
Original: 557 p. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: Internet. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Helterman, Jeffrey.
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Layman, Richard, 1947-
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Gale Group.
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| ISBN |
0810309149 |
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9780810309142 |
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