DeMarr, Mary Jean

Provides an examination of nine novels by Australian writer Colleen McCullough, published between 1974 and the 1990s, and includes biographical information about the author, a discussion of her refusal to be confined to any one specific genre, and a bibliography.

A reference guide that surveys fiction dealing with adolescence. Covers 600 novels organized under 7 major topics.

Provides critical analyses of four novels by feminist writer Barbara Kingsolver, and includes biographical information about the author.

Profiles six novels by twentieth-century North Carolina writer Kaye Gibbons, discussing their plots, characters, settings, themes, and imagery and providing Marxist, cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic readings.