novelists, american

The author recounts his worldwide travels and psychic experiments, beginning with his first year at Harvard Medical School, in 1965.

A collection of autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California and his family's perseverance and courage in the face of hunger, stress, and persecution.

This book is a comprehensive reference to William Faulkner's life, writings, and characters, as well as the people and events that influenced Faulkner as a person and a writer.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and analytical information about 120 of the United States' best-known fiction writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, each with an annotated bibliography; and includes a glossary of terms and techniques, a timeline of author birthdates, and an index.