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American novelists since World War II. Seventh series / edited by James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Giles, James Richard, 1937-, Giles, Wanda H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Thomson/Gale, 2003.
Series:Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 278.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography > Dictionaries.
American fiction > 20th century > Dictionaries.
American fiction.
Novelists, American.
Biographies.
Bio-bibliography.
Reference works.
Dictionaries.
Table of 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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