Litz, A. Walton

American Authors Including: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Flannery O' Conner, Bernard Malamud, Peter Taylor, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, John Cheever.

A collection of essays that provide information about authors who have made significant contributions to American literature, each containing a brief biography, a survey of principle writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; arranged chronologically from Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky.