authors, american

The author visits American authors' homes, whether the house is from their birth, death, or sometime in between, and gives background information while on the stomping grounds of Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Clemens, and the like.

A collection of essays that provide information about authors who have made significant contributions to American literature, each containing a brief biography, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; arranged chronologically from R.W. Emerson to Carson McCullers.

Deborah Rodriguez discusses her life and adventures in a Mexican seaside town as she tries to reinvent herself after leaving Afghanistan.

An autobiographical account of the life of writer Vladimir Nabokov.

Autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California.

"Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry--both her process and her philosophy"--Back cover.