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African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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African American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Blyden. A History of Afro-American Literature . Vol. 1: The...and Its Rejection in Afro-American Novels . Ph.D. diss...Loggins Vernon. The Negro Author: His Development in America...Narratives: Their Place in American Literature." Studies in Black...
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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors

Book by Alan Hager; Greenwood Press, 2004

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Dictionaries, Authors, American--To 1700--Biography--Dictionaries, Authors, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Dictionaries, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Dictionaries, Milton, John--1608-1674--Contemporaries--Dictionaries, United States--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Dictionaries

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...literature takes meaning from the world of the author, or even from the authors own intent; rather, readers must look...for meaning. In her analysis of the American New Critics, including William K. Wimsatt...representation of a real experience nor the authors expression of her or his own world or...
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Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism

Book by Floyd Stovall, Jay B. Hubbell, Walter Blair, Lewis Leary, Stanley T. Williams, Willard Thorp, Harry Hayden Clark, Robert E. Spiller; Modern Language Association of America, 1956

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American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1940 , and in Constance Rourke American Humor 1931 . Pelham Edgar attempted...of his Henry James , Man and Author 1927 was to support his countertheory...artist, soon exhausted his American material and that the move...stories according to their American setting, their general themes...
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Writers Take Sides: Letters about the War in Spain from 418 American Authors

Book; League of American writers, 1938

Collections: History, Entire Library

...anthology form, the League of American Writers specifies that such...publication, the League of American Writers makes a similar specification...considered the sole property of the author. 8. Candidates should submit...Rolfe Humphries, League of American Writers, 381 Fourth Ave...
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Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author

Book by Derek Parker Royal; Praeger, 2005

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Roth, Philip--Criticism And Interpretation

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Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author provides a detailed reading of...1960); Time magazine's Best American Novel of the year for Operaton...Penguin, 1985. 99-113. . American Pastoral. Boston: Houghton Mifflin...

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Journal Articles on: american author

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Introduction: Reclaiming Julia C. Collins, Forgotten 19th-Century African American Author

Journal article by Veta Smith Tucker; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Works, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...most free African Americans believed that self...qualification by which African Americans would earn their full rights as American citizens (McHenry...and sentiments of the author and "tried to catch...those of the African American northern elite, who...very beginning African Americans dreamed that it would...
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Humorous Contemporary Jewish-American Authors: An Overview of the Criticism

Journal article by Don L.F. Nilsen; MELUS, Vol. 21, 1996

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American literature--Jewish authors, Criticism--Evaluation, Ethnic wit and humor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish wit and humor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...pivotal illustration of an author who has been influenced...jewish humor. Jewish authors of humorous Young Adult...assimilated into the larger American community. At a minimum...Something about the Author: Autobiography Series...influence of such Jewish-American authors as Woody Allen, Saul...
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Index of Interviews with Selected American Authors, 1998-1999

Journal article by Jim Mcwilliams; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

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Authors, American--Interviews, Interviews--Directories, Periodicals--Indexes

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...An Interview." The American Poetry Review 27.2...Indigo: A Profile of the Author of Purple America...California Lecture." The American Poetry Review 27.1...articles and is the author of Mark Twain in the...index of interviews with American authors, 1945-2000, to be...
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Toby Widdicombe and Herman S. Preiser, Eds. Revisiting the Legacy of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), American Author and Social Reformer: Uncollected and Unpublished Writings, Scholarly Perspectives for a New Millennium

Journal article by James J. Kopp; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003

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Revisiting the Legacy of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), American Author and Social Reformer (Book)--Reviews

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...1850-1898), American Author and Social...Biography of the Author of Looking Backward...The Destruction of American Forests" and...series on Studies in American Literature. John...discussion of the authors own work on participatory...exchange between the author and The Capital...
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Elizabeth Bidinger. the Ethics of Working Class Autobiography: Representation of Family by Four American Authors

Journal article by Michelle M. Tokarczyk; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography: Representation of Family by Four American Authors (Book)--Book reviews

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...of Family by Four American Authors. by Michelle M. Tokarczyk...Representation of Family by Four American Authors. Jefferson, NC: McFarland...members who, unlike the author, have not chosen to have...problematic because many Americans are biased against the lower socioeconomic classes. Authors from working-class families...

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Magazine Articles on: american author

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Summer Reading: Our Most Revered Writers' Favorite Works Validate for Us the Authors' Voices and Judgments - and Their Treasures

Magazine article; American Visions, Vol. 9, June 1994

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American literature--African American authors

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...works validate for us the authors voices and judgments - and...works validate for us the authors voices and judgments...subtleties and nuances the author brings to this contemporary...resourceful young African-American hero I have ever seen in...self-absorbed African-American mother since the evil matriarch...the most successful African Americans. I also completed Crossings...
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Misreading Tehran: Foreign Policy Asked Several Leading Iranian-American Authors to Revisit the Hype and the Hope in a Year's Worth of Writings about Iran's Upheaval. Azadeh Moaveni Leads off with What the West Isn't Hearing About

Magazine article; Foreign Policy, July 2010

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American writers--Practice, Authors, American--Practice, Foreign policy--Social aspects, Iranian foreign relations--Social aspects, Tehran, Iran--Foreign policy, Tehran, Iran--Social aspects

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...Tehran: Foreign Policy Asked Several Leading Iranian-American Authors to Revisit the Hype and the Hope in a Years Worth of...writer for Time magazine on Iran and the Middle East and author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran.
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Troubadour of the American West: An Exemplar of the Frontier Life He Wrote about, Author Louis L'Amour Celebrated the Honorable Individualism of the Men and Women Who Settled the American West

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, March 21, 2005

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American culture--Portrayals, Authors--Biography, Authors--Works, L'Amour, Louis--Biography, L'Amour, Louis--Works, Writers--Biography, Writers--Works

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Troubadour of the American West: An Exemplar of the...Frontier Life He Wrote about, Author Louis LAmour Celebrated...and Women Who Settled the American West. by William Norman...and women who tamed the American West. "LAmour stresses...
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The Damage Done by PC Journalism: Author and Media Critic William McGowan Details How 'Identity' Politics Has Overtaken American Newsrooms, Turning Journalists into Cheerleaders Instead of Skeptics

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, June 17, 2002

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Authors--Interviews, Books--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Journalistic ethics--Analysis, McGowan, William G.--Interviews, Political correctness--Social aspects

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...done by PC journalism: author and media critic William...are from the rest of Americans in terms of basic life...course. Every year the American Society of Newspaper...Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism. Personal...Institute. Favorite authors: George Orwell, Graham...
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Subscribe Now Author Looks Back at a Revolution

Magazine article by Danny Newman; American Theatre, Vol. 14, November 1997

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Authors--Practice, Newman, Danny--Practice, Theater--Finance, Theatre Communications Group--Publishing

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Subscribe Now author looks back at a revolution by Danny Newman My Subscribe Now...public for the Brecht/ Beckett/original plays by unknown authors" policy then in favor. I attempted to convince artistic...government arts subsidy is the norm everywhere - except here. We Americans can be proud of having found our way to survival, and more...

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JK Rowling, the Author the Americans Just Love to Hate; Harry Potter's Creator on Top Ten Target List - for Promoting Witchcraft

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 30, 2006

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Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

JK Rowling, the Author the Americans Just Love to Hate; Harry...one on the list of writers Americans want to ban. The multimillionaire...Satanism. As a result, the American Library Association (ALA...contains so many wonderful authors that her inclusion on it...Mocking Bird, J D Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye and...
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Wintour's Tale; What Made the Famously Private American Vogue Editor Emerge from Behind Her Dark Glasses to Court Publicity -- and What Has the Fall-Out Been? an American Author and Manhattan Figure Explains

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 26, 2009

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Wintour, Anna

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fall-Out Been? an American Author and Manhattan Figure...allowed, with the faint American inflections that remind...is the daughter of an American mother. "And I try...explain her reputation. Americans are often flummoxed...
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'I Want to Meet the Men Who Battered Me and Left Me in a Wheelchair' American Author Tells of His Battle to Get Back to Health

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 16, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Men Who Battered Me and Left Me in a Wheelchair American Author Tells of His Battle to Get Back to Health. Byline: BY PADDY CLANCY AN American author beaten up more than nine years ago says he would like...
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In the Pantheon of the Musical Greats; We've Always Known They Were the Top of the Pops, but the American Author of a New Book on the Beatles Places Them Up There with Mozart and Beethoven

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 27, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Pops, but the American Author of a New Book on the...very well - for an American. This makes the book...this, wondering, as Americans always do, at the...every morning then, Americans stepped from gleaming...egged on by pictures of American life seen on our chummy...
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HOW TO CHEAT.. AND GET AWAY WITH IT; Outrageous American Author Reckons the Secret of a Happy Marriage Is to Have an Affair and His New Books Tells How

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...AND GET AWAY WITH IT; Outrageous American Author Reckons the Secret of a Happy Marriage...Cameron Barnes, a middle-aged American and self-confessed adulterer...Vermilion at pounds 7.99. BOLD: Author; ADVICE: Book; PRESIDENTS WOMAN...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american author

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Putnam, George Palmer , 1887–1950, American Author and Explorer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER , 1887 1950, American author and explorer 1887 1950, American author and explorer, b. Rye, N.Y.; grandson...one in 1926, under the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History, up the west coast...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell , American Author and Physician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL , American author and physician 1809 94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He began his medical career as...
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Erskine, John , American Educator, Author, and Musician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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ERSKINE, JOHN , American educator, author, and musician 1879 1951, American educator, author, and musician, b. New York...and served as coeditor of The Cambridge History of American Literature. He is best known for his delightful...
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Dwight, Timothy , 1752–1817, American Clergyman, Author, and Educator

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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DWIGHT, TIMOTHY , 1752 1817, American clergyman, author, and educator 1752 1817, American clergyman, author, educator, b. Northampton, Mass., grad. Yale, 1769. He renounced legal...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE the writings of...Era The history of Spanish American literature begins with the...of the Indians" and the author of the "black legend" of...colonial period in Spanish American history and letters came...

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