Biography
Biography

Author: Catherine N. Parke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1000143511

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Catherine Parke explores biography through detailed examinations of Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and other masters of the genre.

Numberpedia
Numberpedia

Author: Herb Reich

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011-01-02

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1616080841

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A compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography
Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography

Author: Mary Bruccoli

Publisher: Gale

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series.The 6-vol. set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917The Twenties, 1917-1929The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941The New Consciousness, 1941-1968Broadening Views, 1968-1988The Supplement to the 6-vol. set, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.

The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism
The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism

Author: Linda Wagner-Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317538110

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The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the period including technology, religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and texts from the period. Wagner-Martin brings her years of writing about American modernism to explicate poetry and drama as well as fiction and life-writing. Among the authors emphasized are Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, Mike Gold, James T. Farrell, Clifford Odets, John Steinbeck and countless others. A clear and engaging introduction to an exciting period of literature, this is the ultimate guide for those seeking an overview of American Modernism.