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American novelists since World War II. Seventh series /

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of eighty American authors who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Giles, James Richard, 1937- (Editor); Giles, Wanda H. (Editor)
Published: Thomson/Gale,
Publisher Address: Detroit :
Publication Dates: [2003]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 278
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
American fiction > 20th century > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography > Dictionaries.
American fiction > 20th century > Dictionaries.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Biobibliographie > Dictionnaires anglais.
Romanciers américains > 20e siècle > Biographies > Dictionnaires anglais.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Dictionnaires anglais.
American fiction.
Novelists, American.
Amerikaans.
Romanschrijvers.
Reference works.
Dictionaries.
Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries.
Biography > Dictionaries.
Summary: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of eighty American authors who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Item Description: "A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book."
Carrier Form: xxii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333) and index.
ISBN: 0787660221 :
9780787660222
Index Number: PS379
CLC: K837.125.6-61
Call Number: K837.125.6-61/D554/v.278
Contents: Sherman Alexie (1966- ) --
Rudolfo A. Anaya (1937- ) --
James Baldwin (1924-1987) --
Russell Banks (1940- ) --
Ann Beattie (1947- ) --
Madison Smartt Bell (1957- ) --
T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948- ) --
Michael Chabon (1963- ) --
Annie Dillard (1945- ) --
Clyde Edgerton (1944- ) --
Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) --
Irvin Faust (1924- ) --
William Gaddis (1922-1998) --
John Hersey (1914-1993) --
William Humphrey (1924-1997) --
John Irving (1942- ) --
John Jakes (1932- ) --
Charles Johnson (1948- ) --
Gayl Jones (1949- ) --
Norman Mailer (1923- ) --
Armistead Maupin (1944- ) --
William Maxwell (1908-2000) --
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) --
Reynolds Price (1933- ) --
John Rechy (1931- ) --
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) --
Peter Taylor (1917-1994).

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