This set offers profiles of major U.S. and Canadian writers from all time periods, accompanied by analyses of their significant titles of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
General Note
Includes indexes in volume 6, glossary of literary terms.
Content Note
Sandra Cisneros, Tom Clancy, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Coover, Robert Cormier, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Robert Creeley, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Edwidge Danticat, Guy Davenport, Robertson Davies, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, John Dos Passos, Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, Stanley Elkin, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise Erdrich, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau, Robert Frost, Charles Fuller, William Gaddis, Ernest J. Gaines, Mavis Gallant, John Gardner, William H. Gass, Kaye Gibbons, William Gibson, William Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovanni, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Mel Glenn, Louise Gluck, Mary Gordon, John Guare.