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Dictionary of literary biography volume 33
Language
English
Description
Volume 33 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography reflects the trends, hopes, political aspirations, and cultural affirmations of recent black writers. The civil rights movement brought in new voices, experimentation with form, subject, and style, the emergence of writing for and about black children, and an increasing number of black women writers. The volume contains illustrated bio-critical essays on 49 authors. It includes writers for children,...
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Dictionary of literary biography volume 31
Language
English
Description
Thirty-first in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, the volume provides a biographical-bibliographical guide to the colonial period in American literary history. The literature of the period reflects a gradual and subtle blending of two heritages: New Engalnd Puritanism, and European Enlightenment. Covering creative writers and figures who influenced the minds of the people, entries in this volume include career chronology, list of publications,...
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Dictionary of literary biography volume 26
Language
English
Description
The first of two volumes on American screenwriters planned for the Dictionary of Literary Biography contains studies of the careers of 65 significant motion-picture writers. It includes only those writers who wrote primarily for the screen or those who wrote in other media but had noteworthy film achievements. It does not include novelists who wrote for motion-pictures part-time, such as Faulkner, playwrights such as Neil Simon who adapted their own...
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Dictionary of literary biography volume 28
Language
English
Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of fifty-one American-Jewish fiction writers active during the twentieth century; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.