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American writers: a collection of literary biographies
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Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
1974
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot
v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers
v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana
v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright
Supplement 1, pt. 1-2
Supplement 2, pt. 1-2
Supplement 3, pt. 1-2. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1, 2, and 3
Supplement 4, pt. 1-2
Retrospective supplement 1
Supplement 5
Supplement 6
Supplement 7
Supplement 8
Supplement 9
Supplement 10
Supplement 11
Retrospective supplement 2. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1-12 and retrospective supplements 1-2
Supplement 12. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1-12 and retrospective supplements 1-2
Supplement 13
supp. V: Russell Banks / Robert J. Niemi
Ann Beattie / Natasha Wimmer
Robert Coover / Jerome Klinkowitz
Richard Ford / Brian Henry
Louise Gleuck / Lee Upton
A.R. Gurney / Brenda Murphy
Erica Jong / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Stephen King / Tony Magistrale
Maxine Hong Kingston / Bill Roorbach
Philip Levine / Christopher Buckley
Peter Matthiessen / John Gatta
Larry McMurty / Charles R. Baker
Tim O'Brien / Dana Cairns Watson
Cynthia Ozick / Victor Strandberg
Upton Sinclair / Erik Kongshaug
Robert Stone / Cates Baldridge
Peter Taylor / Robert S. Wilson
Charles Wright / Henry Hart.
supp. VI: Don DeLillo / Steven G. Kellman
Annie Dillard / Karen L. Kilcup
Stanley Elkin / Jerome Klinkowitz
John Gardner / William D. Atwill
William Gass / Joseph Dewey; Brooke Horvath
Robert Hass / Molly McQuade
Irving Howe / Sanford Pinsker
Richard Hugo / Richard Wakefield
Zora Neale Hurston / Stephen Soitos
John Irving / Josie P. Campbell
Susan Minot / Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter
Grace Paley / Carolyn Alessio
Robert Pinsky / James Longenbach
Reynolds Price / Charles R. Baker
Muriel Rukeyser / Karen L. Kilcup
Jane Smiley / Nancy Coffey Heffernan
W.D.Snodgrass / David R. Slavitt.
supp. IX: Nelson Algren / James A. Lewin
Rachel Carson / Cornelius Browne
Amy Clampitt / Willard Speigelman
Zelda Fitzgerald / Sylvia Shurbutt
Robert Francis / Robert B. Shaw
William Humphrey / Bert Almon
Shirley Jackson / Carolyn Alessio
Tony Kushner / Josef Raab and Melissa Knox
William Matthews / Alexander Long
John Muir / Cornelius Browne
Dorothy Parker / Melissa Knox
Richard Powers / Joseph Dewey
Henry Roth / Steven G. Kellman
James Salter / Charles R. Baker
Louis Simpson / Steven P. Schneider
Gerald Stern / Jonathan N. Barron
Jean Toomer / Tracie Church Guzzio
David Wagoner / Richard Wakefield.
supp. X: Madison Smartt Bell / Donna Seaman
Wendell Berry / Dean Flower
Kaye Gibbons / Veronica Makowsky
Anthony Hecht / Gerry Cambridge
Alice Hoffman / Denise Gess
Anne LaBastille / John Cooley
Thomas McGrath / David Mason
Claude McKay / Stephen Soitos.
Paul Monette / Melissa Knox
Lorrie Moore / Denise Gess
Anais Nin / Melissa Knox
Sharon Olds / Kim Bridgford
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Susan Balee
Ishmael Reed / Tracie Church Guzzio
Tom Robbins / Brian Kent
Amy Tan / Stephen Soitos
David Foster Wallace / Brian Henry
John Edgar Wideman / Patricia Ferreira.
supp. VII: Julia Alvarez / Andrea Schaefer
A.R. Ammons / Philip Bufithis
Richard Bausch / Bert Almon
Sandra Cisneros / Mary Ellen Bertolini
Andre Dubus / Charles R. Baker
George Garrett / Walter Sullivan
Donald Justice / Wyatt Prunty
William Kennedy / Philip E. Baruth
Jane Kenyon / Laban Hill
Jamaica Kincaid / Donna Seaman
Barbara Kingsolver / Dana Cairns Watson
Jerzy Kosinski / Stephen Soitos
Mary Oliver / Jonathan N. Barron
Annie Proulx / Robert Niemi
James Purdy / David Breithaupt
Anne Rice / Laurie Champion
Carol Shields / Susan L. Blake
Tobias Wolff / Pauls Toutonghi.
supp. VIII: t. C. Boyle / Pauls Toutonghi
Joseph Brodsky / Robert Faggen
Jim Harrison / Patrick A Smith
Shelby Hearon / James Ward Lee
Oscar Hijuelos / Joseph M. Viera
Alfred Kazin / Marybeth McMahon
Harper Lee / Laurie Champion
Bobbie Ann Mason / Laban Carrick Hill
William Maxwell / George Core
Cormack McCarthy / Victor Strandberg
Thomas Merton / Paul Johnston
Gloria Naylor / Kathryn Brewer
Norman Podhoretz / Sanford Pinsker
May Sarton / Patricia M. Dwyer
Charles Simic / Brian Henry
Gary Snyder / Tyler Hoffman
Paul Theroux / Liesel Litzenburger
August Wilson / Keith Clark.
supp. X: Madison Smartt Bell / Donna Seaman
Wendell Berry / Dean Flower
Kaye Gibbons / Veronica Makowsky
Anthony Hecht / Gerry Cambridge
Alice Hoffman / Denise Gess
Anne LaBastille / John Cooley
Thomas McGrath / David Mason
Claude McKay / Stephen Soitos.
Paul Monette / Melissa Knox
Lorrie Moore / Denise Gess
Anais Nin / Melissa Knox
Sharon Olds / Kim Bridgford
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Susan Balee
Ishmael Reed / Tracie Church Guzzio
Tom Robbins / Brian Kent
Amy Tan / Stephen Soitos
David Foster Wallace / Brian Henry
John Edgar Wideman / Patricia Ferreira.
supp. XI: Toni Cade Bambara / Barbara C. Solaro
Frederick Barthelme / Laurie Champion
Stephen Vincent Benet / Paul Johnston
Michael Chabon / Joseph Dewey
Wanda Coleman / Tony Magistrale
Harry Crews/ Joseph Dewey
Mark Doty / Kim Bridgford
Stephen Dunn / Victoria D. Sullivan
John Fante / Stephen Cooper
Cristina Garcia / Joseph M. Viera, Deborah Kay Ferrell
Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
James Jones / Brian Kent
Mary Karr / Bert Almon
Larry Lewis / Christopher Buckley
Paulie Marshall / Dana Cairns Watson
Terry Southern / Robert Niemi
William Stafford / Alexander Long
Richard Yeats / Charles R. Baker.
supp. XII: Kathy Acker / Julie Sears
Paul Auster / Patrick A. Smith
Frederick Buechner / Charles R. Baker
Robert Olen Butler / Patrick A. Smith
Peter Cameron / Hugh Coyle
Anne Carson/ Brian Henry
Gregory Corso / Jonathan N. Barron
Stephen Dixon / Jerome Klinkowitz
Leslie Epstein / Sanford Pinsker
Albert Goldbarth / Jonathan N. Barron
John Haines / Cornelius Browne
Joy Harjo / Pegge Bochynski
John Knowles / Charles R. Baker
J.D. McClatchy / Willard Spiegelman
Frank McCourt / Mary Ellen Bertolini
Sue Miller / William H. Pritchard
Ann Patchett / Joan Wylie Hall
Richard Russo / Tricia Welsch.
supp. XIII: t. C. Boyle / Pauls Toutonghi
Joseph Brodsky / Robert Faggen
Jim Harrison / Patrick A Smith
Shelby Hearon / James Ward Lee
Oscar Hijuelos / Joseph M. Viera
Alfred Kazin / Marybeth McMahon
Harper Lee / Laurie Champion
Bobbie Ann Mason / Laban Carrick Hill
William Maxwell / George Core
Cormack McCarthy / Victor Strandberg
Thomas Merton / Paul Johnston
Gloria Naylor / Kathryn Brewer
Norman Podhoretz / Sanford Pinsker
May Sarton / Patricia M. Dwyer
Charles Simic / Brian Henry
Gary Snyder / Tyler Hoffman
Paul Theroux / Liesel Litzenburger
August Wilson / Keith Clark.
Retro supp I: Willa Cather
Sharon O'Brien
Emily Dickinson / Janet Gray
T.S. Eliot / Ronald Bush
William Faulkner / David Minter
F. Scott Fitzgerald / C.K. Doreski
Robert Frost / William Doreski
Nathaniel Hawthorne / Evan Carton
Ernest Hemingway / Scott Donaldson
Langston Hughes / David Roessel
Henry James / Daniel Fogel
Herman Melville / T. Walter Herbert
Vladimir Nabokov / Michael Wood
Ezra Pound / A. Wlaton Litz
Wallace Stevens / James Longenbach
John Updike / Dean Flower
Eudora Welty / Veronica Makowsky
Edith Wharton / Jeannie Kassanoff
Walt Whitman / Tenney Nathanson
William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan.
retro supp. II: James Baldwin / D. Quentin Miller
Saul Bellow / Michael Austin
Elizabeth Bishop / Karen L. Kilcup
Kate Chopin / Denise Larrabee
Hart Crane / Kim Lewis
Theodore Dreiser / Jerome Loving
Ralph Ellison / Tracie Church Guzzio
Sarah Orne Jewett / Karen L. Kilcup
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Paul Johnston
Robert Lowell / John Canaday
Norman Mailer / J. Michael Lennon
Flannery O'Connor / Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Sylvia Plath / Philip Hobsbaum
Edgar Allan Poe / Tony Magistrale
Adrienne Rich / Philip Hobsbaum
Philip Roth / Sanford Pinsker
Isaac Bashevis Singer / James A. Lewin
Nathanael West / Jane Goldman.
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