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Dictionary of literary biography yearbook. 1982
- Summary
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Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Karen L. Rood, Jean W. Ross and Richard Ziegfeld
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1983
- ISBNs
- 9780810316263, 0810316269
- OCLC
- ocn669249019
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.
- Original: x, xi, 416 p. illus. 29 cm.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Updated entries:The 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature -- The Drue Heinz Literature Prize -- The Island Trees case: A symposium on School Library censorship -- The most powerful book review in America -- The practice of Biography: an interview with Stanley Weintraub -- "F. Scott Fitzgerald: St.Paul's Native son and distinguished American writer": University of Minnesota conference, 29-31 October 1982 -- "Re-meeting of old friends": The Jack Kerouac conference -- James Joyce centenary: Dublin, 1982 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1982 -- Literary research archives: the Humanities research center, University of Texas -- D. M. Thomas: The Plagiarism controversy -- A transit of poets and others: American biography in 1982 -- The year in drama -- The year's work in American poetry -- The year's work in Fiction: a survey -- Updated entries: Nelson Algren -- Saul Bellow -- John Cheever -- Peter Devries -- James Dickey -- John Gardner -- John Irving -- Jerzy Kosinski -- Archibald MacLeish -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Philip Roth -- Anne Tyler -- John Updike -- New Entries: Ann Arensberg -- Ann Beattie -- Gregory Benford -- Doris Betts -- Philip Booth -- Susan Cheever -- John Crowley -- Martha Gellhorn -- Peter Gent -- Stephen Goodwin -- Arthur Hailey -- Jim Harrison -- Shirley Hazzard -- Marcy Heidish -- Evan Hunter -- Carobeth Laird -- Robert Ludlum -- John Nichols -- Cynthia Ozick -- Lee Pennington -- Robert Pinsky -- John Rechy -- Michael Ryan -- Jonathan Schwartz -- Betty Smith -- Mark Smith -- Herman Wouk -- Charles Wright
Subjects
- American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography.
- English literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Dictionaries.
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Dictionaries.