Title:
American writers : selected authors
JLCTITLE245:
Leonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, editors in chief.
Publication Information:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1998.
Physical Description:
3 volumes (vii, 1594 pages) ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780684806044
9780684806037
9780684806020
9780684806013
Abstract:
A collection of essays about the lives and writings of sixty-four famous American authors, including Maya Angelou, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and Herman Melville.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Vol. 1. Edward Albee -- Sherwood Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- W.H. Auden -- James Baldwin -- Amiri Baraka -- Saul Bellow -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- William Cullen Bryant -- Truman Capote -- Willa Cather -- Raymond Chandler -- John Cheever -- Stephen Crane -- E.E. Cummings -- Emily Dickinson -- John Dos Pasos -- T.S. Eliot -- Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Louise Erdrich. Vol. 2. William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Robert Frost -- Allen Ginsberg -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ernest Hemingway -- O. Henry -- Langston Hughes -- Washington Irving -- Henry James -- James Weldon Johnson -- Jack Kerouac -- Jack London -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Claude McKay -- Herman Melville -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Arthur Miller -- Toni Morrison -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Flannery O'Connor -- Eugene O'Neill. Vol. 3. Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Ezra Pound -- J.D. Salinger -- Carl Sandburg -- Neil Simon -- John Steinbeck -- Wallace Stevens -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mark Twain -- John Updike -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Alice Walker -- Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Walt Whitman -- Thornton Wilder -- Tennessee Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Richard Wright.