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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Russell Hoban's six novels for adults have a compelling strangeness made up of the most elusive aspects of myth, riddle, history, fantasy, philosophy, and humor. For many readers this is a deeply intriguing mixture which...
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From: Critique[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Greiner argues that Lockridge's instant success and subsequent suicide are reflected in the experiences of his main character in Raintree County.] Although published...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOn 25 February, 1934, John Steinbeck wrote George Albee that he had completed a new story, "The Chrysanthemums," and commented that "it is entirely different and is designed to strike without the reader's knowledge. I...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In an editorial headnote in Letters, E. B. White refers to the "squibs and poems" that he began submitting to the New Yorker shortly after it was founded in 1925. He joined the staff of the magazine two years later and...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)The virtues of Russell Hoban's picture books surely owe something to his early years as a television art director, copywriter, and free-lance illustrator. There are an elegance and wit about them, combined with the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)There is no doubt that Leslie A. Fiedler aimed from his professional beginnings to be not just a critic but a genuine all-round man-of-letters, publishing not only controversial essays but also poetry and fiction soon...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The Spoils of Poynton began as a short story and turned into a novella as Henry James wrestled with his material. The evolution of the book is extensively documented in the author's Notebooks and in the preface he wrote...
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From:Feminist WritersRita Mae Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, just north of the Maryland border, in 1944. Adopted by Ralph and Julia Ellen Brown, she lived in Hanover until the family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida eleven years...
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From:Feminist WritersOne of the most prolific North American writers of this century, Joyce Carol Oates has been both praised and criticized for her tremendous literary output. She has written 32 novels (five under the pseudonym Rosamond...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Allan Gurganus is an old-fashioned storyteller. The stories he tells are multi-layered and contain strong, varied voices. While both his novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, and his short story collection,...
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From: PHYLON: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture[In the following essay, Gloster profiles Griggs as a leader among those African-American novelists whose work challenged racial stereotypes portrayed in the writings of white Southerners such as Thomas Dixon.] During...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)For over forty years, since the appearance of Henry Huggins, Beverly Cleary has been a children's book writer of remarkable success and critical importance. Her global popularity with four generations of reading children...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In The Wings of the Dove we are already in Henry James's last and most difficult phase, after The Awkward Age and The Sacred Fount and immediately before The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. The obscurity, elaboration,...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)If, as the black activist and educator W.E.B. Du Bois asserted, "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line," Richard Wright's Native Son is the central novel of the time—at least in the United...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Armistead Maupin's popular "Tales of the City" novels have appealed to a wide audience, overcoming the gays-only stigma attached to many openly homosexual authors who feature homosexual characters in their work. Although...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )In a letter to fledgling writer Willa Cather, who had asked Sarah Orne Jewett for advice, Jewett told Cather to "write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up." She further told...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Peter Matthiessen has a dream of mankind living gracefully in the world, one species of many in an organic relationship. Unlike earlier American authors given to a version of this dream, Matthiessen can have no...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 161. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (short stories) 1867The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress (sketches) 1869Roughing It (sketches) 1872The Gilded Age...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Howard Fast has written in virtually every genre—novels, plays, poems, filmscripts, critical essays and short stories—and in a number of subgenres of fiction, including science fiction, social satire, historical and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)"What writing means to me is trying to make interesting, clear, beautiful language. Working at sentences and rhythms is probably the most satisfying thing I do as a writer. I think after a while a writer can begin to...