Supplement 5. Russell Banks ; Ann Beattie ; Robert Coover ; Richard Ford ; Louise Gluck ; A.R. Gurney ; Erica Jong ; Stephen King ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Philip Levine
Peter Matthiessen ; Larry McMurty ; Tim O'Brien ; Cynthia Ozick ; Upton Sinclair; Robert Stone ; Peter Taylor ; Charles Wright.
Supplement 6. Don Delillo ; Annie Dillard ; Stanley Elkin ; John Gardner ; William Gass Robert Hass ; Irving Howe ; Richard Hugo ; Zora Neale Hurston ; John Irving ; Charles Johnson ; Susan Minot ; Grace Paley ; Robert Pinsky ; Reynolds Price ; Muriel Rukeyser ; Jane Smiley ; W.D. Snodgrass.
Supplement 7. Julia Alvarez ; A.R. Ammons ; Richard Bausch ; Sandra Cisneros ; Andre Dubus ; Gearge Garrett ; Donald Justice ; William Kennedy ; Jane Kenyon ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Barbara Kingsolver ; Jerzy Kosinski ; Mary Oliver ; Annie Proulx ; James Purdy ; Anne Rice ; Carol Shields ; Tobias Wolff.
Supplement 8. T.C. Boyle ; Joseph Brodsky ; Jim Harrison ; Shelby Hearon ; Oscar Hijuelos ; Alfred Kazin ; Harper Lee ; Bobbie Ann Mason ; William Maxwell ; Cormac McCarthey ; Thomas Merton ; Gloria Naylor ; Norman Podhoretz ; May Sarton ; Charles Simic ; Gary Snyder ; Paul Theroux ; August Wilson.
Supplement 9. Nelson Algren ; Rachel Carson ; Amy Clampitt ; Zelda Fitzgerald ; Robert Francis ; William Humphrey ; Shirley Jackson ; Tony Kushner ; William Matthews ; John Mur ; Dorothy Parker ; Richard Powers ; Henry Roth ; James Salter ; Louis Simpson ; Gerald Stern ; Jean Toomer ; David Wagoner.
Supplement 10. Madison Smartt Bell ; Wendell Berry ; Kaye Gibbons ; Anthony He ; James Baldwin ; Saul Bellow ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Kate Chopin ; Hart Crane ; Theodore Dreiser ; Ralph Ellison ; Sarah Orne Jewett ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Robert Lowell ; Norman Mailer ; Flannery O'Connor ; Sylvia Plath ; Edgar Allen Poe ; Adrienne Rich ; Philip Roth ; Isaac Bachevis Singer ; Nathanael West.cht ; Alice Hoffman ; Anne LaBastille ; Thomas McGrath ; Claude McKay ; Paul Monette ; Lorrie Moore ; Anais Nin ; Sharon Olds ; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; Ishmael Reed ; Tom Robbins ; Amy Tan ; David Foster Wallace ; John Edgar Wideman.
Supplement 11. Toni Cade Bambara ; Frederick Barthelme ; Stephen Vincent Benet ; Michael Chabon ; Wanda Coleman ; Harry Crews ; Mark Doty ; Stephen Dunn ; John Fante ; Cristina Garcia ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; James Jones ; Mary Karr ; Larry Levis ; Paul Marshall ; Terry Southern ; William Stafford ; Richard Yates.
Supplement 12. Kathy Acker ; Paul Auster ; Frederick Buechner ; Robert Olen Butler ; Peter Cameron ; Anne Carson ; Gregory Corso ; Stephen Dixon ; Leslie Epstein ; Albert Goldbarth ; John Haines ; Joy Harjo ; John Knowles ; J.D. McClatchy ;Frank McCourt ; Sue Miller ; Ann Patchett ; Richard Russo.
Supplement 13. Edward Abbey ; Margaret Atwood ; Nicholson Baker ; Octavia Butler ; Stephen Dobyns ; Leslie Fiedler ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Lucy Larcom ; Horace McCoy ; Terry McMillan : Terrence McNally ; Pat Mora ; Walter Mosley ; John Nichols ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Tillie Olsen ; Luis Omar Salinas ; William Jay Smtih.
Supplement 14. Cleanth Brooks ; James Lee Burke ; John Jay Chapman ; Charles W. Chesnutt ; Evan S. Connell ; Joseph Epstein ; Sara Henderson Hay ; Herbert Huncke ; Christopher Isherwood ; Aldo Leopold ; Alain Locke ; Norman Maclean ; David Mamet ; Linda McCarriston ; Charles Reznikoff; Richard Rodriguez ; John Patrick Shanley ; Logan Pearsall Smith.
Supplement 15. Woody Allen ; Frank Bidart ; Witter Bynner ; Michael Cunningham ; Peter Everwine ; Carol Frost ; Dana Gioia ; Weldon Kees ; X.J. Kennedy ; Kenneth Koch ; Ed Lacy ; Li-Young Lee ; Susanna Rowson ; Gjertrud Schnackenberg ; Elizabeth Stoddard ; Louis Untermeyer ; Wendy Wasserstein ; C.D. Wright.
Supplement 16. John James Audubon ; Rick Bass ; Carol Bly ; Hayden Carruth ; Frank Conroy ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Theodor Seuss Geisel ; William Gibson ; Chester Himes ; Eva Hoffman ; Garrison Keillor ; Anita Loos ; Leonard Michaels ; Jay Neugeboren ; George Plimpton ; Francine Prose ; Scott Russell Sanders ; Gustaf Sobin.
Supplement 17. Max Apple ; Charles Baxter ; Linda Bierds ; Melvin Bukiet ; Guy Endore ; Annie Finch ; M.F.K. Fisher ; Hutchins Hapgood ; Mark Jarman ; Brigit Pegeen Kelly ; David Markson ; Willard Motley ; Anna Quindlen ; Joanna Scott ; Gay Talese ; Scott Turow ; William Vollmann ; Franz Wright.
Supplement 18. Charles Frederick Briggs ; Bob Dylan ; Margaret Edson ; Percival Everett ; William Hoffman ; Ha Jin ; Jon Krakauer ; Nella Larsen ; Jonathan Lethem ; Alice McDermott ; Marilyn Nelson ; Janisse Ray ; Conrad Richter ; Paul William Ryan ; Budd Schulberg ; Susan Warner ; Dorothy West ; Robert Wrigley.
Supplement 19. David Budbill ; Philip Caputo ; W.S. Di Piero ; Jennifer Egan ; Rudolph Fisher ; Mark Halliday ; Rolando Hinojosa ; Ted Kooser ; Thomas Mallon ; Albert Murray ; Chris Offutt ; Robert B. Parker ; Molly Peacock ; Mark Richard ; George Saunders ; Irwin Shaw ; Harvey Swados ; Bruce Weigl.
Supplement 20. Mary Antin ; T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Pietro Di Donato ; Timothy Findley ; Waldo Frank ; Jonathan Franzen ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Kahlil Gibran ; Anne Lamott ; Reginald McKnight ; Jim Wayne Miller ; Tova Mirvis ; Floyd Skloot ; Gene Stratton-Porter ; Howard Overing Sturgis ; Leon Uris ; Patricia Nell Warren ; Phillis Wheatley.
Supplement 21. Neith Boyce ; William Bronk ; Larry Brown ; Billy Collins ; Michael Connelly ; William Virgil Davis ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Amy Hempel ; Lynda Hull ; David Henry Hwang ; C.L.R. James ; Jhumpa Lahiri ; Sam Pickering ; Marilynne Robinson ; Gilbert Sorrentino ; Natasha Trethewey ; Ira Wolfert.
Supplement 22. Arna Bontemps ; Agnes Boulton ; William Bradford ; Kevin Brockmeier ; Michelle Cliff ; Patricia Hampl ; Larry Heinemann ; Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ; Edward P. Jones ; Mina Loy ; Clarence Major ; Caroline Miller ; Howard Frank Mosher ; Alice Notley ; Anne Rivers Siddons ; Lee Siegel ; Genevieve Taggard ; Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Supplement 23. Sholem Asch ; Peter Balakian ; Pinckney Benedict ; Barbara Crooker ; Stuart Dybek ; Zee Edgell ; Frederick Exley ; Rachel Hadas ; Jane Hirshfield ; Maurice Kenny ; Meridel Le Sueur ; George Lippard ; Cherrie Moraga ; Frank O'Haa ; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft ; Penelope Scambly Schott ; Betty Smith ; Elizabeth Strout ; Jean Thompson.
Supplement 24. Pearl Abraham ; Gertrude Atherton ; Ted Berrigan ; Kay Boyle ; William Ellery Channing ; Junot Diaz ; Andre Dubus III ; Christopher Durang ; Jeffrey Eugenides ; David Ferry ; Tess Gallagher ; Gayl Jones ; Miranda July ; Leonard Kriegel ; Ander Monson ; Mari Sandoz ; Nicky Silver ; Hunter S. Thompson.
Supplement 25. Alison Bechdel ; Maxwell Bodenheim ; Hannah Webster Foster ; Francisco Goldman ; Lev Grossman ; Mark Helprin ; William Inge ; H.P. Lovecraft ; Manuel Muñoz ; Stewart O'Nan ; Susan Orlean ; Sara Paretsky ; Mary Roberts Rinehart ; Joshua Slocum ; A.E. Stallings ; Jones Very ; Herman Wouk ; Zitkala-S̆a.
Supplement 26. Raymond Andrews ; Nathan Asch ; Henry Beston ; Eula Biss ; Peter Davison ; Deganawida the Peacemaker ; Eric Gansworth ; Allegra Goodman ; Alfred Hayes ; David Huddle ; Helene Johnson ; William Kittredge ; James McBride ; Bich Minh Nguyen ; George Oppen ; John Kennedy Toole ; Katherine Vaz ; Carolyn Wells
The 4-volume main set consists of 97 of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; some have been revised and updated. The supplements cover writers not included in the original series.
General Note
Supplement 2, <4> have editor in chief, A. Walton Litz ; Suppl. <3> edited by Lea Bechler, A. Walton Litz ; Retrospective suppl. 1, c1998, edited by A. Walton Litz & Molly Weigel ; Suppl. 5-<19> and Retrospective suppl. 2 have editor-in-chief, Jay Parini.
General Note
Two different volumes issued as Restrospective supplement II.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description
The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.
Unger, Leonard., A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, and Jay Parini. American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies
Scribner, 1974.
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