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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

• Hipp, James 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, x, 359 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Articles and features: The 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature: Octavio Paz (1914-)
• Nobel Lecture 1990
• The year in the novel
• The year in the short story
• The year in poetry
• The year in drama
• The year in literary biography
• Book reviewing in America: IV
• An interview with Russell Hoban
• The uses of facsimiles: a symposium
• The Bobbs-Merrill Archive at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
• Conversations with rare book dealers I: an interview with Glenn Horowitz
• New approaches to biography: challenges from critical theory, USC Conference on Literary Studies, 1990
• New literary periodicals: a report for 1990
• Obituaries: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
• Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
• Walker Percy (1916-1990)
• Literary awards and honors announced in 1990
• Checklist: contributions to literary history and biography
• Necrology
• Letter from a new Germany
• Letter from Japan
• Letter from Khartoum
• Letter from London
• The year in Drama: London
• Contributors
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0810345706
• 9780810345706

OCLC

669249038

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