Bright pages : Yale writers, 1701-2001 / edited and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.

College years -- when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired -- can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Four Teachers
  • John Hersey
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • John Hollander
  • Robert Stone
  • After the War
  • Brendan Gill
  • Walter Lord
  • Harvey Shapiro
  • John Knowles
  • Robert K. Massie
  • Peter Matthiessen
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • David McCullough
  • Sherwin B. Nuland
  • Stephen Sandy
  • David R. Slavitt
  • Larry Kramer
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Tom Wolfe
  • A.R. Gurney
  • Romulus Linney
  • Mark Strand
  • Leslie Epstein
  • John Guare
  • John Lahr
  • William Matthews
  • Thomas McGuane
  • Paul Monette.
  • Christopher TilghmanGarry Trudeau
  • William Logan
  • Ted Tally
  • George Bradley
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Rosanna Warren
  • Wendy Wasserstein
  • Karl Kirchwey
  • David Hirson
  • Martha Hollander
  • David Leavitt
  • Gloria Naylor
  • Elizabeth Alexander
  • Chang-rae Lee
  • Claire Messud
  • Craig Arnold
  • Rachel Wetzsteon
  • From the Start
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Joel Barlow
  • John Trumbull
  • Timothy Dwight
  • Noah Webster
  • John Pierpont
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Francis Miles Finch
  • Clarence Day.
  • Owen JohnsonSinclair Lewis
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • Philip Barry
  • Stephen Vincent Benét
  • Cole Porter
  • Thornton Wilder.