novelists, american

Presents a reference guide to the top one hundred American authors writing in the thriller and suspense genre, providing biographical information, writing histories, and a list of their works.

Presents biographical sketches of one hundred popular fiction authors representing all major genres including science fiction, mysteries, and fantasy, and profiles their careers and literary credentials.

Billy Pilgrim is a loner cast adrift in time and space, a victim of fate, who is shuttled back and forth between the starkly contrasting worlds of a zoo on another planet, where he is a specimen, and nightmarish Nazi Germany during the fire-bombing of Dresden.

This program sets Steinbeck's writings and life in perspective, and provides a new interpretation of his work.