Overview
The American Writers Supplements include authors who have never been featured in American Writers. This supplement contains essays on a range of authors from the past and present, including Phillis Wheatley, Mary Antin, Waldo Frank, Khalil Gibran, Gene Stratton-Porter, Howard Overing Sturgis, T.C. Boyle, Timothy Findley, Jonathan Franzen, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Anne Lamott, Reginald McKnight, Jim Wayne Miller, Tova Mirvis, Floyd Skloot, Leon Uris, and Patricia Nell Warren.
Features & Benefits
- In this twentieth volume of American Writers, we offer articles on American writers who choose a wide variety of genres
- they are all accomplished figures, yet none of them has yet been featured in this series before.
- To paraphrase series editor Jay Parini, contextually locating the authors in their specific time and place is the hallmark of this series.
What's New
This latest volume includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis of American writers from the nineteenth century to the present day.