This DLB volume supplements Volume 2 with 70 additional biographical entries covering American novelists actively writing during this period of extraordinary proliferation for the literary form. Among them are interesting new talents...and many others of striking quality, writes William Targ in the volumes foreword. There is also ...ample assurance of a new body of risk-takers, stylists and nontraditionalists, he continues. Indeed, here we have the whole spectrum of writing talent. 70 entries Eleanor Clark, Elizabeth Hardwick, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, James A. Michener, Toni Morrison, Mario Puzo, Isaac Bashevis, Singer Gore Vidal, Alice Walker, Joseph Wambaugh and Jessamyn West.
Language
English
Pages
404
Format
Hardcover
Release
October 01, 1980
ISBN 13
9780810309081
DLB 6: American Novelists since World War II, Second Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 6)
This DLB volume supplements Volume 2 with 70 additional biographical entries covering American novelists actively writing during this period of extraordinary proliferation for the literary form. Among them are interesting new talents...and many others of striking quality, writes William Targ in the volumes foreword. There is also ...ample assurance of a new body of risk-takers, stylists and nontraditionalists, he continues. Indeed, here we have the whole spectrum of writing talent. 70 entries Eleanor Clark, Elizabeth Hardwick, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, James A. Michener, Toni Morrison, Mario Puzo, Isaac Bashevis, Singer Gore Vidal, Alice Walker, Joseph Wambaugh and Jessamyn West.