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Subject(s)

• American literature—20th century—Bio-bibliography [Browse]
• American literature—20th century—History and criticism—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Authors, American—20th century—Biography [Browse]
• Authors, English—20th century—Biography [Browse]
• English literature—20th century—Bio-bibliography [Browse]
• English literature—20th century—History and criticism—Dictionaries [Browse]

Editor

• Rood, Karen Lane [Browse]
• Ross, Jean W. [Browse]
• Ziegfeld, Richard [Browse]

Related name

• Gale Group [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Series

Dictionary of literary biography complete online

Summary note

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.

Original version

Original: x, xi, 416 p. illus. 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Updated entries:The 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
• The Drue Heinz Literature Prize
• The Island Trees case: A symposium on School Library censorship
• The most powerful book reveiw in America
• The practice of Biography: an interview with Stanley Weintraub
• "F. Scott Fitzgerald: St.Paul's Native son and distinguished American writer": University of Minnesota conference, 29-31 October 1982
• "Re-meeting of old friends": The Jack Kerouac conference
• James Joyce centenary: Dublin, 1982
• Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1982
• Literary research archives: the Humanities research center, University of Texas
• D. M. Thomas: The Plagiarism controversy
• A transit of poets and others: American biography in 1982
• The year in drama
• The year's work in American poetry
• The year's work in Fiction: a survey
• Updated entries: Nelson Algren
• Saul Bellow
• John Cheever
• Peter Devries
• James Dickey
• John Gardner
• John Irving
• Jerzy Kosinski
• Archibald MacLeish
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Philip Roth
• Anne Tyler
• John Updike
• New Entries: Ann Arensberg
• Ann Beattie
• Gregory Benford
• Doris Betts
• Philip Booth
• Susan Cheever
• John Crowley
• Martha Gellhorn
• Peter Gent
• Stephen Goodwin
• Arthur Hailey
• Jim Harrison
• Shirley Hazzard
• Marcy Heidish
• Evan Hunter
• Carobeth Laird
• Robert Ludlum
• John Nichols
• Cynthia Ozick
• Lee Pennington
• Robert Pinsky
• John Rechy
• Michael Ryan
• Jonathan Schwartz
• Betty Smith
• Mark Smith
• Herman Wouk
• Charles Wright.

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ISBN

• 0810316269
• 9780810316263

OCLC

669249019

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