authors, american

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.

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.