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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, 486 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Updated entries: The 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Huck at 100: how old is "Huckleberry Finn"?
• A new edition of "Huck Finn"
• Biographical documents II
• Taylor-made Shakespeare? Or is "Shall I Die?" the long-lost text of Bottom's dream?
• Parisian theater, Fall 1984: toward a new Baroque
• 1985: the year of the Mystery--a Symposium
• The Ritz Paris Hemingway award
• Hemingway: twenty-five years later
• The Pitt Poetry series: Poetry publishing today
• Literary research archives IV: the John Carter Brown library
• Contempo caravan: kites in a windstrom
• Solzhenitsyn and America
• Fifty Penguin years
• Sinclair Lewis centennial conference
• Lardner 100: Ring Lardner centennial symposium
• The New Variorum Shakespeare
• John Steinbeck research center
• James Joyce conference
• Conference on modern biography
• writer's forum
• The National Jewish book awards
• Audio art in America: a personal memoir
• The fugitives and the Agrarians: the First Exhibition
• Small Presses II: The Spirit That Moves Us Press
• The practice of biography IV: an interview with William Manchester
• The year in literary biography, drama, poetry, fiction
• Obituaries: Heinrich Boll
• Robert Graves
• Shiva Naipaul
• Theodore Sturgeon
• Updated entries: Graham Greene
• Doris Lessing
• James Merrill
• Tom Stoppard
• Thomas Wolfe
• New entries: Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/Clay Fisher)
• Frederick Barthelme
• Alexander L. Blackburn
• John Horne Burns
• Edwin Corle
• Mark Helprin
• Jamake Highwater (Piitai Sahkomaapii, tribal name)
• Paul Horgan
• William Kennedy
• Florence King
• Richard C. Marius
• V. S. Naipaul.

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ISBN

• 0810316293
• 9780810316294

OCLC

669249027

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