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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

• Ross, Jean W. [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, xiii, 358 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Updated entries: The 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature
• A contemporary florescence of Chicano literature
• Biographical Documents I
• Anthony Burgess's "99 Novels": an opinion poll
• The bestseller lists: an assessment
• What's really wrong with bestseller lists
• The new Ulysses
• The Orwell year
• The Modern Language Association of America celebrates its centennial
• Center for book research
• The Ingersoll prizes
• The bread loaf writers'conference 1983
• Storytelling: a contemporary renasissance
• A conservation with Chiam Potok
• Small Presses I: Jargon society
• Conversations with Publishers I: an interview with Patrick O'Connor
• The practice of biography III: An interview with Humphrey Carpenter
• Literary research archives III: the Lilly Library
• The year in literary biography, drama, poetry, fiction
• Obituaries: John Betjeman
• Richard Brautigan
• Truman Capote
• Lillian Hellman
• Alfred A. Knopf
• Julian Mayfield
• Liam O'Flaherty
• J. B. Priestley
• Irwin Shaw
• Jesse Stuart
• Jessamyn West
• Updated entry: James Gould Cozzens
• New Entries: Mary Antin
• Raymond Carver
• James Crumley
• Mark Dintenfass
• Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
• Rose Franken
• Ella Leffland
• Jack Lindsay
• Marsha Norman
• Helen Hooven Santmyer
• Frederick Lewis Seidel
• Peter Straub
• Lewis Turco.

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ISBN

• 0810316285
• 9780810316287

OCLC

669249024

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