american fiction

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, and bibliography of the author's separate publications.

Thom Jones, Andrea Lee, William F. Van Wert, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Eastman, Cornelia Nixon, Rilla Askew, Antonya Nelson, John H. Richardson, Diane Levenberg, John Van Kirk, Alice Adams, Stephen Dixon, Lorrie Moore, Kate Wheeler, Peter Welner, C. E. Poverman, Jennifer Egan,. Charles Johnson, Linda Svendsen, Daniel Stern, Josephine Jacobsen and Steven Schwartz.

A collection of essays that explore philosophical questions raised by the premise of the Orson Scott Card novel, "Ender's Game," in which highly trained child geniuses fight a race of invading aliens.

Three major works including Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, and Everything That Rises Must Converge.

A collection of stories by African-American authors, representing various styles and themes.

Collection of twenty-three short pieces of fiction and autobiographical narratives, focusing on the passage from girlhood to womanhood in late twentieth-century America.

A study and reinterpretation of the three nineteenth century American writers.