popular literature

Provides lists of titles that may be of interest to teens who read genre fiction, selected from the works of authors who are popular with teenagers in the 1990s or whose books fit into the frequently requested genre types of historical novels, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, contemporary, and romance.

A study of the mid-century American novel with critical commentary that encompasses the political literature of the 1930s, the beat movement of the 1950s, and the multicultural literature of the 1960s.

Presents alphabetized, illustrated profiles of nine contemporary writers such as Richard Adams and Dorothy Allison, describing their lives, styles, themes, and selected major and minor works and listing further resources. This volume spans Ada-Ban.