novelists, american

Presents the life and works of Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Includes a chronology.

Excerpts of letters, written throughout the professional life of the author, to her personal friends, business, and literary acquaitances.

Presents the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louis Bromfield. Includes a chronology.

Explores the life and career of Amy Tan, from her childhood in California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer.

A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.

A biography of horror writer Stephen King including his childhood, his college years, and his current life in Maine.

Traces the life of the popular novelist, from his childhood as an avid reader to his current success as a creator of horror fiction.

Profiles the nineteenth-century American author of such works as "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of Seven Gables.".

A biography of Pearl Buck, discussing her childhood as the daughter of American missionaries in China, and looking at how her relationship to two worlds influenced her writing and led to her winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for litearture.

Presents the letters of Ernest Hemingway from 1907 to 1922 encompassing his youth, his experience in World War I, and his arrival in Paris.