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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

• Bruccoli, Matthew J. [Browse]
• Garrett, George, 1929-2008 [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, 383 p. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• The 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature: Dario Fo
• The year in fiction
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook awards for distinguished novels published in 1997
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished volume of short stories published in 1997
• The year in the poetry
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished volume of poetry published in 1997
• The year in children's literature
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished children's book published in 1997
• The year in drama
• The year in literary biography
• William Faulkner centenary celebrations
• Faulkner centennial addresses
• "Faulkner 100-celebrating the work," University of South Carolina, Columbia
• Impressions of William Faulkner: Donald S. Klopfer
• James Dickey
• Interview with Stanley Burnshaw
• The James Gould Cozzens case re-opened
• Mens rea (or something)
• Reader's Ulysses Symposium
• James Laughlin
• The Great War exhibition and symposium at the University of South Carolina
• The Liddle Collection and the First World War research
• Interview with Norman Mailer
• Oral history interview with Donald S. Klopfer
• Responses to Ken Auletta
• The art and mystery of publishing: interviews
• The state of publishing
• Book reviewing and the literary scene
• Kenneth Dale McCormick
• Stephen Vincent Benet centenary
• Thornton Wilder centenary at Yale
• Michael M. Rea and the Rea Award for the short story
• Dawn Powell, where have you been all our lives?
• The Thomas Wolfe Society
• The Thomas Wolfe Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• William Seward Burroughs
• 1997 Booker Prize
• Louisiana State University Press
• John Updike on the Internet
• Author websites
• Producing Dear bunny, dear Volodya: the friendship and the feud
• Department of Library, Archives, and Institutional Research, American Bible Society
• Research in the American antiquarian book trade
• William Emerson
• Literary awards and honors announced in 1997
• Necrology
• Checklist: contributions to literary history and biography
• Contributors.

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ISBN

• 0787625191
• 9780787625191

OCLC

669249048

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