american novelists

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.

A young woman raised on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains recalls her feelings and observations as she came of age during the 1960s in a community that was deliberating destroying convention and creating a new, "pagan" lifestyle to replace it.

Presents an account of the life of twentieth-century American novelist Willa Cather as recalled by her close friend and traveling companion Edith Lewis.

Alexandra Styron, the youngest child of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Sophie's Choice," William Styron, discusses growing up with her father's talent and troubles.

An autobiography of American novelist Jeanne Darst, detailing her childhood, her early years of writing and drinking, and her later years of finding herself.

The author shares the many lessons she has learned throughout her lifetime because of her association and appreciation of animals.