american novelists

Drawing on letters, interviews, speeches, and reminiscences, looks at the life and career of the American novelist.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and analytical information about 120 of the United States' best-known fiction writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, each with an annotated bibliography; and includes a glossary of terms and techniques, a timeline of author birthdates, and an index.

A biography of twentieth century American author William Styron, covering his childhood in the South, his travels abroad, his twenty-five-year feud with Norman Mailer, and his most recent publications, including "Darkness Visible.".

A biography of twentieth-century author Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, drawing from recently discovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism to discuss his struggle with alcoholism, his stormy marriages, his love for a much younger woman, and other aspects of his private and public life.

Chronicles the life of writer Willa Cather and discusses how her work reflect the artistic and cultural tensions of her day.

Contains personal interviews with twelve American writers, including Clyde Edgerton, Garrison Keillor, and Doris Betts, in which they discuss their careers, their readers, their approach to writing, and their attitudes toward issues of faith.

Chronicles the life and career of twentieth-century Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow.

Entries provide information on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe, discussing his childhood, his college work, his early writings, his reputation, and other related topics.