| American Writers Contributor(s): Oakes, Elizabeth H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816051585 ISBN-13: 9780816051588 Publisher: Facts on File OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: "American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003015743 |
| Series: American Biographies (Library) |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 7.24" W x 10.96" (2.24 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists, short story writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and nonfiction writers whose reputations were built on the literary merit of their writing. Providing a genuine cross-section of these major literary genres, this book includes biographical profiles of writers from colonial times to the present and from all major literary movements. literary greats, with special effort made to include writers who have not often been represented in major reference works of this kind. Complementing the clear and engaging text are three subject indexes listing entries by birth, genre, and literary movement; further reading lists following each entry; a general bibliography; and 55 black-and-white photographs. development of the American literary tradition, whether they are writers of literary fiction or of science fiction, have been motivated by politics or inspired by nature, are poets or dramatists. Its expanded coverage of multiethnic writers and its attention to contemporary writers help American Writers stand out among other similar works. |