american literature

A biography of American novelist Carson McCullers, discussing her childhood in the South, her early success, her marriage, and her relationships with other celebrities.

Collection of interviews with author Eudora Welty conducted mainly since 1983, in which she discusses her parents, her childhood and schooldays in Jackson, Mississippi, her trips to New York City, gardening, travel, fellow writers, and a variety of other topics including her photographic work.

A collection of critical essays on Wright's novel, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.

Features contributions by some of today's leading African American writers, including Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Rita Dove, and Charles Johnson.

Born in Salinas, California, novelist John Steinbeck was best noted for his portrayal of the proletariat. His writing realistically depicted the economically depressed in the U.S., particularly the itinerant farm laborers of California.

A collection of stories, essays, and poems from the California coast focusing on life, wildlife, and native people.

Features a collection of poems, stories, and essays that provide a historical look at the Great Lakes and what it is like to live among their plants, animals, landscapes, and weather. Describes encounters with animals, and documents adventures like canoeing and fishing trips. Profiles a variety of states, including Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, as well as Ontario.

Explores how four twentieth-century American Catholic authors, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day, came to believe the best way to explore the quandries of religious faith was in writing.