american literature

An alphabetical guide to the major writers and works associated with the American Transcendentalist movement of the nineteenth century includes entries covering significant places, concepts, and periodicals of the movement.

Includes essays on the following American women authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary N. Murfree, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Zora Neale Hurston, Constance Rourke, Pearl Buck, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Margaret Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath.

Provides brief biographies of African American authors, describing their background, inspiration, literary works, and connections with other African American writers.

Includes a brief biography of J. D. Salinger, thematic and structural analysis of "The Catcher in the Rye", critical views, and more. Includes teacher notes.

Colby Sharp presents the results of a creative-writing challenge offered to more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse, and best-selling authors and illustrators.

A collection of seven adaptations of classic short stories by O. Henry.

Presents an overview of the "Coming of Age" anthology of short stories about youth and adolescence; and offers suggestions for introducing each story, advice on how to use the Writing Workshop and Alternate Media Response exercises, and recommendations, answers, and guidelines for the end-of-selection activities.