American novelists since World War II / edited by Jeffrey Helterman and Richard Layman.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1978.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 557 pages) : illustrations

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Contributor
Series
Dictionary of literary biography ; v.2
Summary note
Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then. Extended biographical and critical essays are given for authors who are generally regarded as major forces in contemporary literature, while less elaborate entries are given for other authors based on the author's influence and size of published body of work.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-557).
Language note
English
Contents
  • James Rufus Agee
  • Louis Auchincloss
  • James Baldwin
  • John Barth
  • Donald Bartheleme
  • Saul Bellow
  • Thomas Berger
  • Vance Bourjaily
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Richard Brautigan
  • William Seward Burroughs
  • Hortense Calisher
  • Truman Capote
  • John Cheever
  • Evan S. Connell, Jr.
  • Robert Coover
  • Joan Didion
  • E.L. Doctorow
  • Stanley Elkin
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Irvin Faust
  • Shelby Foote
  • William Price Fox
  • Bruce Jay Friedman
  • William Gaddis
  • Ernest J. Gaines
  • John Gardner
  • George Garrett
  • William Gass
  • Herbert Gold
  • William Goyen
  • Shirley Ann Grau
  • Mark Harris
  • John Hawkes
  • Joseph Heller
  • George V. Higgins
  • Chester Himes
  • James Jones
  • Erica Jong
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Ken Kesey
  • Jerzy Kosinski
  • Allison Lurie
  • Norman Mailer
  • Bernard Malamud
  • Wallace Markfield
  • Mary McCarthy
  • Carson McCullers
  • Thomas McGuane
  • Larry McMurty
  • Kenneth Millar
  • Steven Millhauser
  • Wright Morris
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Anais Nin
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Gil Orlovitz
  • Walker Percy
  • Reynolds Price
  • James Purdy
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Ishmael Reed
  • Philip Roth
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Hubert Selby, Jr.
  • Susan Sontag
  • Terry Southern
  • Jean Stafford
  • William Styron
  • Harvey Swados
  • Paul Theroux
  • John Updike
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Edward Lewis Wallant
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • Eudora Welty
  • John A. Williams
  • Calder Willingham, Jr.
  • Richard Yates.
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