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Title American short-story writers since World War II. First series / Patrick Meanor, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1993.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 130
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 130.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Lee K. Abbott (1947- ) -- Walter Abish (1931- ) -- Max Apple (1941- ) -- Russell Banks (1940- ) -- Richard Bausch (1945- ) -- Charles Baxter (1947- ) -- Lucia Berlin (1936- ) -- Gina Berriault (1926- ) -- Harold Brodkey (1930- ) -- Charles Bukowski (1920- ) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Alfred Chester (1928-1971) -- Wanda Coleman (1946- ) -- Guy Davenport (1927- ) -- Lydia Davis (1947- ) -- Fileding Dawson (1930- ) -- Stephen Dixon (1936- ) -- Coleman Dowell (1925-1985) -- Andre Dubus (1936- ) -- Stuart Dybek (1942- ) -- John Fante (1909-1983) -- George Garrett (1929- ) -- Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) -- Paul Goodman (1911-1972) -- David Huddle (1942- ) -- Robert Kelly (1935- ) -- David Leavitt (1961- ) -- Gordon Lish (1934- ) -- Leonard Michaels (1933- ) -- Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) -- Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) -- Bette Pesetsky (1932- ) -- J.F. Powers (1917- ) -- Mary Robison (1949- ) -- James Salter (1925- ) -- Eve Shelnutt (1941- ) -- Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) -- Barry Targan (1932- ) -- Gordon Weaver (1937- ) -- Tobias Wolff (1945- ).
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: 324 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 Meanor, Patrick.
Gale Group.
ISBN 081035389X
9780810353893