American writers : a collection of literary biographies /
The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.
Съдържание:
- v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot.
- v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers.
- v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana.
- v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright.
- Supplement[s] : 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier.
- 1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie.
- 2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry.
- 2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winter.
- 3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy.
- 3, pt. 2. Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and Cumulative index to volumes 1-4
- Supplements 1,2 and 3
- Supplement 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal
- Suppl. 5. Russell Banks - Charles Wright.
- v. 1. Henry Adams
- James Agee
- Conrad Aiken
- Edward Albee
- Sherwood Anderson
- John Barth
- Saul Bellow
- John Berryman
- Ambrose Bierce
- Randolph Bourne
- Van Wyck Brooks
- Kenneth Burke
- Erskine Caldwell
- Willa Cather
- James Fenimore Cooper
- James Gould Cozzens
- Hart Crane
- Stephen Crane
- E. E. Cummings
- Emily Dickinson
- John Dos Passos
- Theodore Dreiser
- Richard Eberhart
- Jonathan Edwards
- T. S. Eliot
- v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- James T. Farrell
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Benjamin Franklin
- Harold Frederic
- Robert Frost
- Ellen Glasgow
- Caroline Gordon
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Dean Howells
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- William James
- Randall Jarrell
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Ring Lardner
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Amy Lowell
- Robert Lowell
- Mary McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- v. 3. Archibald MacLeish
- Norman Mailer
- John P. Marquand
- Herman Melville
- H. L. Mencken
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Arthur Miller
- Henry Miller
- Marianne Moore
- Wright Morris
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Howard Nemerov
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Frank Norris
- Flannery O'Connor
- John O'Hara
- Eugene O'Neill
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Ezra Pound
- John Crowe Ransom
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Theodore Roethke
- J. D. Salinger
- Carl Sandburg
- George Santayana
- v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Wallace Stevens
- William Styron
- Allen Tate
- Edward Taylor
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
- John Updike
- Robert Penn Warren
- Eudora Welty
- Nathanael West
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- Edmund Wilson
- Thomas Wolfe
- Richard Wright
- Supplement 1. Part 1. Jane Addams / Clarke Chambers
- Louisa May Alcott / Ann Douglas
- James Baldwin / Keneth Kinnamon
- Elizabeth Bishop / John E. Unterecker
- Anne Bradstreet / Cheryl Walker
- Charles Brockden Brown / Emory B. Elliott
- William Cullen Bryant / Donald A. Ringe
- John Cheever / Scott Donaldson
- Kate Chopin / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
- M.-G. Jean de Crevecoeur / Chadwick Hansen
- Hilda Doolittle / Peter E. Firchow
- Lillian Hellman / Bernard F. Dick
- Oliver Wendell Holmes / Thomas R. Wortham
- Langston Hughes / Donald C. Dickinson
- Sidney Lanier / Thomas Daniel Young
- Supplement 1. Part 2. Vachel Lindsay / Jay R. Balderson
- James Russell Lowell / Walter Blair
- Bernard Malamud / Robert Solotaroff
- Edgar Lee Masters / Linda W. Wagner
- Samuel Eliot Morison / David Herold
- Thomas Paine / Michael D. Truej
- Sylvia Plath / Lonna M. Malmsheimer
- Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul David Johnson
- James Thurber / Robert E. Morsberger
- Thorstein Veblen / John P. Diggins
- E. B. White / Barbara J. Rogers
- John Greenleaf Whittier / John B. Pickard
- Elinor Wylie / Josephine O'Brien Schaefer
- Supplement 2. Part 1. W. H. Auden / Edward Mendelson
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones ) / William C. Fischer
- Joel Barlow / Jeffrey Walker
- R. P. Blackmur / Russell A. Fraser
- Pearl S. Buck / Paul A. Doyle
- Malcolm Cowley / George Core
- W. E. B. Du Bois / Herbert Aptheker
- Paul Laurence Dunbar / Charles T. Davis
- Ralph Ellison / Robert O'Meally
- Philip Freneau / Maureen Goldman
- Margaret Fuller / Bell Gale Chevigny
- Allen Ginsberg / James Mersmann
- Bret Harte / Wilton Eckley
- Robert Hayden / Robert M. Greenberg
- O. Henry / Kent Bales
- Supplement 2. Part 2. Robinson Jeffers / R. W. Butterfield
- Cotton Mather / Ormond Seavey
- Lewis Mumford / Peter Firchow
- Joyce Carol Oates / Diane Tolomeo
- Clifford Odets / Frank R. Cunningham
- Charles Olson / Maxine Olian Apsel
- Francis Parkman / Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Thomas Pynchon / Richard Pearce
- Delmore Schwartz / Paul Breslin
- Anne Sexton / Susan Resneck Parr
- Karl Shapiro / Michael True
- Carl Van Vechten / Bruce Kellner
- Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed
- Yvor Winters / Robert von Hallberg
- Supplement 4. Part 1. Maya Angelou / Mary Jane Lupton
- Louis Auchincloss / Carol Gelderman
- Donald Barthelme / Gwen Crane
- Robert Bly / William V. Davis
- Paul Bowles / Allen Hibbard
- Ray Bradbury / William F. Touponce
- Raymond Chandler / Peter L. Cooper
- Robert Creeley / Bill Piper
- Countee Cullen / Gerald Early
- James Dickey / Ronald Baughman
- Joan Didion / C. K. Doreski
- E. L. Doctorow / Randy Malamud
- Rita Dove / Lesley Wheeler
- Louise Erdrich / Pauline Groetz Woodward
- William Gaddis / William Doreski
- Mary Gordon / Alma Bennett
- Paula Gunn Allen / Lauren Miller with Jacqueline Shea Murphy
- Dashiell Hammett / Robert Worth
- Lorraine Hansberry / Steven R. Carter
- Joseph Heller / Sanford Pinsker
- Linda Hogan / Anna Carew-Miller
- Supplement 4. Part 2. Susan Howe / Molly Weigel
- Maxine Kumin / Steven A. Nardi
- Ross MacDonald / Janet Gray
- N. Scott Momaday / Sally L. Joyce
- Simon J. Ortiz / Patricia Clark Smith
- Ayn Rand / Chris Matthew Sciabarra
- Alberto Alvaro Rios / Adrian Perez Melgosa
- Leslie Marmon Silko / Celeste Goodridge
- Neil Simon / J. Ellen Gainor
- Wallace Stegner / Mark S. Braley
- Mark Strand / Jeffery Donaldson
- May Swenson / Jane Eldridge Miller
- Anne Tyler / Mary Margaret Richards
- Gore Vidal / Jay Parini
- Retrospective Supplement 1. Willa Cather / Sharon O'Brien
- Emily Dickinson / Janet Gray
- T. S. Eliot / Ronald Bush
- William Faulkner / David Minter
- F. Scott Fitzgerald / C. K. Doreski
- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Evan Carton
- Ernest Hemingway / Scott Donaldson
- Langston Hughes / David Roessel
- Henry James / Daniel Fogel
- Herman Melville / T. Walter Herbert
- Vladimir Nabokov / Michael Wood
- Ezra Pound / A. Walton Litz
- Wallace Stevens / James Longenbach
- John Updike / Dean Flower
- Eudora Welty / Veronica Makowsky
- Edith Wharton / Jeannie Kassanoff
- Walt Whitman / Tenney Nathanson
- William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan
- Supplement 5. Russell Banks ; Ann Beattie ; Robert Coover ; Richard Ford ; Louise Gluck ; A. R. Gurney ; Erica Jong ; Stephen King ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Philip Levine - Peter Matthiessen ; Larry McMurty ; Tim O'Brien ; Cynthia Ozick ; Upton Sinclair; Robert Stone ; Peter Taylor ; Charles Wright
- Supplement 6. Don Delillo ; Annie Dillard ; Stanley Elkin ; John Gardner ; William Gass Robert Hass ; Irving Howe ; Richard Hugo ; Zora Neale Hurston ; John Irving ; Charles Johnson ; Susan Minot ; Grace Paley ; Robert Pinsky ; Reynolds Price ; Muriel Rukeyser ; Jane Smiley ; W. D. Snodgrass
- Supplement 7. Julia Alvarez ; A. R. Ammons ; Richard Bausch ; Sandra Cisneros ; Andre Dubus ; Gearge Garrett ; Donald Justice ; William Kennedy ; Jane Kenyon ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Barbara Kingsolver ; Jerzy Kosinski ; Mary Oliver ; Annie Proulx ; James Purdy ; Anne Rice ; Carol Shields ; Tobias Wolff
- Supplement 8. T. C. Boyle ; Joseph Brodsky ; Jim Harrison ; Shelby Hearon ; Oscar Hijuelos ; Alfred Kazin ; Harper Lee ; Bobbie Ann Mason ; William Maxwell ; Cormac McCarthey ; Thomas Merton ; Gloria Naylor ; Norman Podhoretz ; May Sarton ; Charles Simic ; Gary Snyder ; Paul Theroux ; August Willson
- Supplement 9. Nelson Algren ; Rachel Carson ; Amy Clampitt ; Zelda Fitzgerald ; Robert Francis ; William Humphrey ; Shirley Jackson ; Tony Kushner ; William Matthews ; John Mur ; Dorothy Parker ; Richard Powers ; Henry Roth ; James Salter ; Louis Simpson ; Gerald Stern ; Jean Toomer ; David Wagoner
- Supplement 10. Madison Smartt Bell ; Wendell Berry ; Kaye Gibbons ; Anthony He ; James Baldwin ; Saul Bellow ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Kate Chopin ; Hart Crane ; Theodore Dreiser ; Ralph Ellison ; Sarah Orne Jewett ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Robert Lowell ; Norman Mailer ; Flannery O'Connor ; Sylvia Plath ; Edgar Allen Poe ; Adrienne Rich ; Philip Roth ; Isaac Bachevis Singer ; Nathanael West.cht ; Alice Hoffman ; Anne LaBastille ; Thomas McGrath ; Claude McKay ; Paul Monette ; Lorrie Moore ; Anais Nin ; Sharon Olds ; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; Ishmael Reed ; Tom Robbins ; Amy Tan ; David Foster Wallace ; John Edgar Wideman
- Supplement 11. Toni Cade Bambara ; Frederick Barthelme ; Stephen Vincent Benet ; Michael Chabon ; Wanda Coleman ; Harry Crews ; Mark Doty ; Stephen Dunn ; John Fante ; Cristina Garcia ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; James Jones ; Mary Karr ; Larry Levis ; Paul Marshall ; Terry Southern ; William Stafford ; Richard Yates
- Supplement 12. Kathy Acker ; Paul Auster ; Frederick Buechner ; Robert Olen Butler ; Peter Cameron ; Anne Carson ; Gregory Corso ; Stephen Dixon ; Leslie Epstein ; Albert Goldbarth ; John Haines ; Joy Harjo ; John Knowles ; J. D. McClatchy ;Frank McCourt ; Sue Miller ; Ann Patchett ; Richard Russo
- Supplement 13. Edward Abbey ; Margaret Atwood ; Nicholson Baker ; Octavia Butler ; Stephen Dobyns ; Leslie Fiedler ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Lucy Larcom ; Horace McCoy ; Terry McMillan : Terrence McNally ; Pat Mora ; Walter Mosley ; John Nichols ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Tillie Olsen ; Luis Omar Salinas ; William Jay Smtih
- Supplement 14. Cleanth Brooks ; James Lee Burke ; John Jay Chapman ; Charles W. Chesnutt ; Evan S. Connell ; Joseph Epstein ; Sara Henderson Hay ; Herbert Huncke ; Christopher Isherwood ; Aldo Leopold ; Alain Locke ; Norman Maclean ; David Mamet ; Linda McCarriston ; Charles Reznikoff; Richard Rodriguez ; John Patrick Shanley ; Logan Pearsall Smith
- Supplement 15. Woody Allen ; Frank Bidart ; Witter Bynner ; Michael Cunningham ; Peter Everwine ; Carol Frost ; Dana Gioia ; Weldon Kees ; X. J. Kennedy ; Kenneth Koch ; Ed Lacy ; Li-Young Lee ; Susanna Rowson ; Gjertrud Schnackenberg ; Elizabeth Stoddard ; Louis Untermeyer ; Wendy Wasserstein ; C. D. Wright
- Supplement 16. John James Audubon ; Rick Bass ; Carol Bly ; Hayden Carruth ; Frank Conroy ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Theodor Seuss Geisel ; William Gibson ; Chester Himes ; Eva Hoffman ; Garrison Keillor ; Anita Loos ; Leonard Michaels ; Jay Neugeboren ; George Plimpton ; Francine Prose ; Scott Russell Sanders ; Gustaf Sobin
- Supplement 17. Max Apple ; Charles Baxter ; Linda Bierds ; Melvin Bukiet ; Guy Endore ; Annie Finch ; M. F. K. Fisher ; Hutchins Hapgood ; Mark Jarman ; Brigit Pegeen Kelly ; David Markson ; Willard Motley ; Anna Quindlen ; Joanna Scott ; Gay Talese ; Scott Turow ; William Vollmann ; Franz Wright
- Supplement 18. Charles Frederick Briggs ; Bob Dylan ; Margaret Edson ; Percival Everett ; William Hoffman ; Ha Jin ; Jon Krakauer ; Nella Larsen ; Jonathan Lethem ; Alice McDermott ; Marilyn Nelson ; Janisse Ray ; Conrad Richter ; Paul William Ryan ; Budd Schulberg ; Susan Warner ; Dorothy West ; Robert Wrigley
- Supplement 19. David Budbill ; Philip Caputo ; W.S. Di Piero ; Jennifer Egan ; Rudolph Fisher ; Mark Halliday ; Rolando Hinojosa ; Ted Kooser ; Thomas Mallon ; Albert Murray ; Chris Offutt ; Robert B. Parker ; Molly Peacock ; Mark Richard ; George Saunders ; Irwin Shaw ; Harvey Swados ; Bruce Weigl
- Supplement 20. Mary Antin ; T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Pietro Di Donato ; Timothy Findley ; Waldo Frank ; Jonathan Franzen ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Kahlil Gibran ; Anne Lamott ; Reginald McKnight ; Jim Wayne Miller ; Tova Mirvis ; Floyd Skloot ; Gene Stratton-Porter ; Howard Overing Sturgis ; Leon Uris ; Patricia Nell Warren ; Phillis Wheatley
- Supplement 21. Neith Boyce ; William Bronk ; Larry Brown ; Billy Collins ; Michael Connelly ; William Virgil Davis ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Amy Hempel ; Lynda Hull ; David Henry Hwang ; C. L. R. James ; Jhumpa Lahiri ; Sam Pickering ; Marilynne Robinson ; Gilbert Sorrentino ; Natasha Trethewey ; Ira Wolfert