The biographies of thirty American novelists, poets and playwrights.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Early days: James Fenimore Cooper -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Washington Irving -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Herman Melville -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Henry David Thoreau -- The Middle period: Louisa May Alcott --- Emily Dickinson -- Theodore Dreiser -- O. Henry -- Henry James -- Jack London -- Mark Twain -- Walt Whitman -- Modern American writers: Pearl S. Buck -- Willa Cather -- Willaim Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Robert Frost -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Sinclair Lewis -- Eugene O'Neill -- John Steinbeck -- Edith Wharton.E.B. White -- Tennessee Williams.