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Subject(s)

• American fiction—21st century—Bio-bibliography—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Novelists, American—21st century—Biography—Dictionaries [Browse]

Editor

• Anderson, George Parker, 1957- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]
• Reference works [Browse]

Series

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 382. [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume presents a wide range of American novelists across distinct generations. It includes writers born before the end of World War II, who established their reputations in the 20th century and have written important work in the 21st century; Baby Boomers of the 1940s and 1950s; and novelists born in the 1960s. All of the authors distinguished themselves as individual artists, yet share the experience of living in the United States across the 20th and 21st centuries.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• David Bajo (1960- ) / Joseph Dewey
• Elise Blackwell (1964- ) / Alexis Stratton
• Michael Chabon (1963- ) / Joseph Dewey
• Susan Choi (1969- ) / Penny Vlagopoulos
• Don DeLillo (1936- ) / Katherine Da Cunha Lewin
• E.L. Doctorow (1931- 2015) / Mark Steven
• Jennifer Egan (1962- ) / Martin Paul Eve
• Louise Erdrich (1954- ) / Seema Kurup
• Jonathan Franzen (1959- ) / Ruth C. Hoffman
• Mary Gordon (1949- ) / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
• Larry Heinemann (1944- ) / Peter Molin
• Adam Johnson (1967- ) / John Cusatis
• Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) / Charles J. Rzepka
• James McBride (1957- ) / Barbara Chin
• Cormac McCarthy (1933- ) / Marty Priola
• Walter Mosley (1952- ) / Owen E. Brady
• Arthur Phillips (1969- ) / Charlie Reilly
• Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) / John Miller
• Philip Roth (1933- ) / Brett Ashley Kaplan
• Richard Russo (1949- ) / Stacy Denton
• Joanna Scott (1960- ) / Michael Lackey
• Elizabeth Strout (1956- ) / Katherine Montwieler
• Donna Tartt (1963- ) / Erin E. Templeton
• Lily Tuck (1938- ) / Joseph Dewey
• John Updike (1932-2009) / Matthew A. Shipe
• Colson Whitehead (1969- ) / Derek Maus
• Daniel Woodrell (1953- ) / Shawn E. Miller.

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Other title(s)

21st century American novelists. Third series

ISBN

• 9781414462554
• 1414462557

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