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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]

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, 478 p. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature: Gunter Grass
• The year in fiction
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished novel published in 1999
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished first novel published in 1999
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished volume of short stories published in 1999
• The year in literary biography
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished literary biography published in 1999
• The year in poetry
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished volume of poetry published in 1999
• The year in children's books
• Dictionary of literary biography yearbook award for distinguished children's book published in 1999
• The publishing industry in 1999
• The year in British fiction
• Joseph Heller
• George V. Higgins
• At end of day: the last George V. Higgins novel
• "What you lose on the swings you make up on the merry-go-round"
• George V. Higgins to Julian Symons
• Paul Frederic Bowles
• George Frederick Sims
• William Gaddis: a tribute
• The Harry Potter phenomenon
• The literary scene and situation and...who (besides Oprah) really runs American literature?
• A summing up at century's end
• Oral history: B. W. Huebsch
• Interview with Patrick O'Connor
• Michael Avallone
• Interview with George Plimpton
• Come to papa
• The Hemingway centenary celebrations at the JFK library
• The Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library
• Not immediately discernible...but eventually quite clear: The first light and final years of Hemingway's centenary
• A literary archaeologist digs on: a brief interview with Michael Reynolds
• Hemingway in the JFK
• Ernest Hemingway: a centennial celebration
• John Dos Passos: artist
• Interview with Humphrey Carpenter
• Interview with Michael Holroyd
• Eudora Welty's ninetieth birthday
• Eudora Welty newsletter
• The reality of one woman's dream: The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
• Interview with Patricia Schroeder
• The Association of American Publishers
• University Press of Mississippi
• The Dylan Thomas celebration
• The Christopher Isherwood Archive, The Huntington Library
• F. Scott Fitzgerald inducted into the American Poets' Corner at St. John the Divine; Ezra Pound banned
• Western writers of America
• Literary societies
• Literary research archives IX: special collections at Boston University
• Joseph and George
• Annual awards for Dictionary of Literary Biography editors and contributors
• Literary awards and honors announced in 1999
• Necrology
• Checklist: contributions to literary history and biography
• Contributors
• Cumulative index.

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ISBN

• 0787625213
• 9780787625214

OCLC

669249059

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