Details

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

• Rood, Karen Lane [Browse]
• Ross, Jean W. [Browse]
• Ziegfeld, Richard [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, 328 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

• Updated entries: Louis Auchincloss
• Donald Barthelme
• Thomas Berger
• Richard Brautigan
• Truman Capote
• John Cheever
• Marc Connelly
• E.L. Doctorow
• Stanley Elkin
• Irvin Faust
• Ernest J. Gaines
• Mark Harris
• John Hawkes
• Joseph Heller
• Norman Mailer
• Bernard Malamud
• Thomas McGuane
• Larry McMurtry
• Henry Miller
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Flannery O'Connor
• Walker Percy
• Katherine Anne Porter
• William Styron
• John Updike
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Robert Penn Warren
• New Entries: Jonathan Baumbach
• Peter S. Beagle
• Dee Brown
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Frederick Buechner
• C.J. Cherryh
• Alfred Corn
• George Cuomo
• Annie Dillard
• John Gregory Dunne
• Raymond Federman
• Robert Fitzgerald
• Thomas Flanagan
• Nancy Hale
• Diane Johnson
• Stephen King
• Maxine Hong Kingston
• Louis L'Amour
• Ross Lockridge, Jr.
• Phillip Lopate
• William Maxwell
• Michael Mewshaw
• Willie Morris
• Frances Newman
• Josefina Niggli
• Tim O'Brien
• Tillie Olsen
• Jayne Anne Philips
• Tom Robbins
• Anne Roiphe
• Gilbert Sorrentino
• Max Steele
• William Wharton.

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ISBN

• 0810316005
• 9780810316003

OCLC

320300160

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