Great American Writers

by Shuman, R. Baird

• ISBN13: 9780761472407
• ISBN10: 0761472401
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Cavendish Square

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Introduction	3	(4)
Contributors	7	(4)
James Agee	11	(14)
Julia Alvarez	25	(16)
Sherwood Anderson	41	(16)
Maya Angelou	57	(24)
Margaret Atwood	81	(20)
James Baldwin	101	(22)
Saul Bellow	123	(20)
Volume Index	143	(6)
Volume 2
Stephen Vincent Benet	149	(14)
Judy Blume	163	(18)
Arna Bontemps	181	(14)
Gwendolyn Brooks	195	(14)
Pearl S. Buck	209	(24)
Truman Capote	233	(22)
Raymond Carver	255	(14)
Willa Cather	269	(18)
Volume Index	287	(6)
Volume 3
Robert Cormier	293	(18)
E. E. Cummings	311	(22)
Robertson Davies	333	(20)
Joan Didion	353	(22)
Theodore Dreiser	375	(22)
Paul Laurence Dunbar	397	(20)
Bob Dylan	417	(14)
Volume Index	431	(6)
Volume 4
T. S. Eliot	437	(22)
Ralph Ellison	459	(16)
William Faulkner	475	(24)
Edna Ferber	499	(16)
F. Scott Fitzgerald	515	(24)
Horton Foote	539	(16)
Robert Frost	555	(20)
Volume Index	575	(6)
Volume 5
Ernest Gaines	581	(14)
John Gardner	595	(16)
William Gibson	611	(16)
Nikki Giovanni	627	(18)
Lorraine Hansberry	645	(14)
Ernest Hemingway	659	(24)
John Hersey	683	(16)
S. E. Hinton	699	(20)
Volume Index	719	(6)
Volume 6
Langston Hughes	725	(20)
Zora Neale Hurston	745	(18)
John Irving	763	(20)
Robinson Jeffers	783	(20)
John Knowles	803	(16)
Margaret Laurence	819	(14)
Harper Lee	833	(10)
Sinclair Lewis	843	(20)
Volume Index	863	(6)
Volume 7
Jack London	869	(22)
Archibald MacLeish	891	(18)
Bernard Malamud	909	(18)
David Mamet	927	(18)
Edgar Lee Masters	945	(16)
Cormac McCarthy	961	(14)
Carson McCullers	975	(18)
D'Arcy McNickle	993	(14)
Volume Index	1007	(6)
Volume 8
Arthur Miller	1013	(20)
Marianne Moore	1033	(16)
Toni Morrison	1049	(22)
Alice Munro	1071	(14)
Frank Norris	1085	(18)
Joyce Carol Oates	1103	(16)
Tim O'Brien	1119	(16)
Flannery O'Connor	1135	(16)
Volume Index	1151	(6)
Volume 9
Eugene O'Neill	1157	(24)
Judith Ortiz Cofer	1181	(14)
Marge Piercy	1195	(18)
Sylvia Plath	1213	(16)
Katherine Anne Porter	1229	(16)
Charles Portis	1245	(14)
Chaim Potok	1259	(18)
Adrienne Rich	1277	(18)
Volume Index	1295	(6)
Volume 10
J. D. Salinger	1301	(22)
Carl Sandburg	1323	(20)
Jack Schaefer	1343	(14)
Anne Sexton	1357	(20)
Upton Sinclair	1377	(20)
Isaac Bashevis Singer	1397	(20)
Gertrude Stein	1417	(22)
Volume Index	1439	(6)
Volume 11
John Steinbeck	1445	(24)
Wallace Stevens	1469	(20)
William Styron	1489	(16)
Amy Tan	1505	(16)
Studs Terkel	1521	(22)
Anne Tyler	1543	(18)
Alice Walker	1561	(22)
Volume Index	1583	(6)
Volume 12
Eudora Welty	1589	(22)
Edith Wharton	1611	(18)
Thornton Wilder	1629	(22)
Tennessee Williams	1651	(24)
William Carlos Williams	1675	(18)
Richard Wright	1693	(18)
Paul Zindel	1711	(16)
Volume Index	1727
Volume 13 Index Volume
Glossary
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize
Further Reading
Writers by Genre
Subject Indexes
Index of Writers
Index of Literary Works
Index of Fine Arts
Index of Artists
Index of Films
Index of Characters
Biographical Index
Geographical Index
Comprehensive Index