american prose literature

Provides a representative selection of work by major prose-writers in the English language, drawn from throughout five centuries. 'Arranged chronologically.

Profiles one hundred of today's most popular nonfiction writers, with an overview of each author's personal and professional lives, literary accomplishments, genre, and awards, with reading lists and contact information for each entry.

Discusses the development of the American diary as a genre and the bases of experience or perspectives shared by groups of diarists.

A compilation of more than 230 speeches by over 130 prominent African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans from the late 1700's through early 1995, and includes a narrative of each speaker.

Features over one hundred forty selections of the American West from diaries and travelogues to short stories and stone inscriptions.

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, and bibliography of the author's separate publications: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mary McCarthy, Kate Millett, Anais Nin, Hester Thrale Piozzi, May Sarton, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Jade Snow Wong, Virginia Woolf.

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, adn bibliography of the author's separate publications: Maya Angelou, Vera Brittain, Frances Fanny Burney, Annie Dillard, Janet Frame, Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman, Violet Hunt, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Alice James, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the thirteen most significant African-American prose writers up to the early twentieth century.

A collection of more than one hundred stories, essays, and poems that try to capture the spirit, culture, people, and politics of New York City.