Details

Subject(s)

• American wit and humor—Dictionaries [Browse]
• American wit and humor—Dictionaries—Bio-bibliography [Browse]
• Humorists, American—Biography [Browse]

Contributor

• Trachtenberg, Stanley [Browse]

Series

• Dictionary of literary biography; 11 [More in this series]
• Dictionary of literary biography American humorists, 1800-1950 [More in this series]

Summary note

Contains biographical sketches of American humorists who are generally considered to have had a major impact on our attitudes toward and understanding of humor and on the development of the form through the production of a significant body of work. Only literary figures were considered for inclusion, criterion was based on whether the author's work was primarily humorous or whether there was a significant body of humorous writing.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Language note

English

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