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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

African American Novelists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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...Biography: Afro-American Writers 1940 1955...Barbara. Black Women Novelists: The Development of...L. Ann Petry: The Novelist as Social Critic...Milton. The Negro Novelist: A Discussion of the Writings of American Negro Novelists, 1940 1950 . New York...
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Fiction, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries

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...something to almost every Asian American literary genre as playwright, novelist, essayist, critic, and...the groundbreaking Asian American anthology entitled Aiiieeeee...uncompromising portrayals of Chinese Americans and for incorporation of...works," comments Asian American Voices a Coffee House Press...
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Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920

Book by Carl Van Doren; Macmillan & Co., 1931

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American Fiction--History And Criticism, Fiction, Novelists, American

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...slowly bringing to a wider American public the evidence that a really eminent novelist has hitherto been partly...novelist, belongs to the American nation. As far back as...records the making of an American, originally a reader of...
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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by E. C. Applegate; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Fiction--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Dictionaries, Naturalism In Literature--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries, Realism In Literature--Dictionaries

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...wrote several realistic novels that capture the American West. His first realistic novel, The Story of...excited critics and made his reputation as an American realistic novelist. The novels that he published thereafter were didactic...
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American Novelists of Today

Book by Harry R. Warfel; American Book, 1951

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...consultant to a number of leading American corporations, as well as to...Ararat 1939 , which won the American Booksellers award in 1939 and...achieves sudden fame as a novelist, and becomes involved in the...High School, and in the American High School at Paris. He was...

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Journal Articles on: american novelist

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Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864): German and American Novelist of the Nineteenth Century

Journal article by Alexander Ritter; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994

Subjects:

Novelists--Appreciation, Postl, Karl--Appreciation, Sealsfield, Charles--Appreciation

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...1864): German and American novelist of the nineteenth century...name and acquired an American passport bearing the...touch with various Americans of German and French...contact with fellow novelists and thus remained an...author." He focused on American interests and owned...
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"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" the Novelist as Poet: A Study in the Dramatic Poetry of Herman Melville

Journal article by Mustafa Jalal; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

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Battle-Pieces (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Civil war--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Melville, Herman--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Aspects of the War" The Novelist as Poet: A Study in the...work and nineteenth century American poetry, especially Civil...the poet and Melville the novelist in Battle-Pieces, and...poetry is impregnated with the novelists protean capacity to create...Mellvilles poems are the work of a novelist. In the preface to Battle...
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Yellow Fever and Charles Brockden Brown: the Context of the Emerging Novelist

Journal article by Robert A. Ferguson; Early American Literature, Vol. 14, 1979

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

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...see The Literary Magazine and American Register , 1 ( 1803-04...Warfel, Charles Brocken Brown: American Gothic Novelist (Gainesville, Fla., 1949...America: A Literary Study in American Culture (Syracuse, 1949 ) and...
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The Power of Sympathy: European American Women Novelists Imagine Indigenous Absence

Journal article by James H. Cox; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 15, 2001

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Conquest, Right of--Portrayals, depictions, etc., European Americans--Literature, Europeans in the United States--19th century, Imperialism--Literature, Native Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Storytelling--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...European American Women Novelists Imagine Indigenous...real" (1). Native American characters in texts...referent to real Native American lives and cultures...misrepresentations of Native Americans in texts by non...a simulated Native American presence. In novels...protagonists community. Novelists such as Charles Brockden...they have for Native Americans, these authors of...
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Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence, Black Spirit, and the Quest of the Silver Fleece

Journal article by Maurice Lee; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

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African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Literature, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence, Black Spirit, and...narrative form. Perhaps Du Bois the novelist must wait his turn behind Du Bois the...have yet to acknowledge - a serious novelist with ambitious designs for the United...

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Magazine Articles on: american novelist

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Missed Moorings - American Novelists Lose Touch

Magazine article by Nicholas Lemann; Washington Monthly, Vol. 18, February 1986

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American Book Awards--1985, Authors--Evaluation, Common Ground (book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., DeLillo, Don--Achievements and awards, Novelists--Evaluation, White Noise (book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Perhaps the view that American life is pervasively...literary life. Every novelist needs material-it...Typically the first novelist gets his material...lift What then? Some novelists find that the life...of being a serious American novelist, which leads to a...all but a handful of novelists, its not even that...
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'Mem, Mem, Mem': After a Stroke, a Prolific Novelist Struggles to Say How the Mental World of Aphasia Looks and Feels

Magazine article by Paul West; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Summer 2007

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Stroke (Disease)--Excerpts, Stroke (Disease)--Patient outcomes, Stroke--Excerpts, Stroke--Patient outcomes, West, Paul (American novelist)--Care and treatment, West, Paul (American novelist)--Injuries, West, Paul (American novelist)--Prognosis

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Mem, Mem, Mem: After a Stroke, a Prolific Novelist Struggles to Say How the Mental World of Aphasia Looks and Feels. by Paul West One day in June of 2003, my husband, Paul West...
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Dawn of a Literary Friendship: In 1969 the Writer Robert Phelps First Wrote to the Novelist James Salter. Here Are the Letters That Forged a Bond of Two Decades

Magazine article by John Mcintyre; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Spring 2009

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Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Practice, Phelps, Robert--Records and correspondence, Salter, James--Appreciation, Salter, James--Practice

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...Robert Phelps First Wrote to the Novelist James Salter. Here Are the...love affair between a young American man and a French shop girl...holds as a writer who "writes American sentences better than anybody...book, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), the critic...
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Literary Cubs, Canceling out Each Other's Reticence: Letters between Federal Writers' Project Cohorts Richard Wright and Nelson Algren Depict a Mutual Admiration Rare among Young Novelists

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Spring 2009

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Algren, Nelson--Appreciation, Algren, Nelson--Records and correspondence, Authors--Appreciation, Authors--Records and correspondence, Wright, Richard (American writer)--Appreciation, Wright, Richard (American writer)--Records and correspondence, Writers--Appreciation, Writers--Records and correspondence

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...Admiration Rare among Young Novelists. by David A. Taylor In...Nelson Algren, a fellow novelist who was exactly his age...document a wide range of American life. Like other WPA arts...talents that would absorb the American scene with fresh eyes and...Terkel, and African-American poet and novelist Margaret...
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Novelist Thomas Mallon

Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; The American Enterprise, Vol. 11, June 2000

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Authors, American--Interviews, Conservative literature--Analysis, Mallon, Thomas--Interviews, Politics and literature--Analysis

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Novelist Thomas Mallon by...one of the finer American novelists--earlier "assisted...Richard Bausch, a novelist, says that every...movies about the American past, yet comparatively...imaginatively attractive to novelists now, the way geographical...

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Newspaper Articles on: american novelist

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The Welshman in Contention for Title of First American Novelist

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 4, 2008

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Novelists

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

...for Title of First American Novelist. Byline: By Darren Devine...The Journal was the first American novel. There is no other...Jim Peacock, a lecturer in American Studies, said there is a...capture and release by native American as the first US novels...conscious of their status as Americans." The Journal of Penrose...
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How American Novelists after Civil War Tackled the Matter of Manners

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 29, 2003

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Howells, William Dean

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

...her study of six American novelists by reminding us that one...distinction between novels and novelists of manners." Ms. Goodman...classes required to produce a novelist of manners." On the contrary...show the many ways in which American novelists have scrutinized the norms...transformation that had many Americans wondering about their national...
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NOVELIST'S A HIT WITH AMERICANS; City Author Compared to Dylan Thomas As: US Literature Fans Snap Up Book Following Rave Reviews

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), February 18, 2011

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

NOVELISTS A HIT WITH AMERICANS; City Author Compared...received a rave review in American literary journal PublishersWeekly...surreal that so many Americans would enjoy what is very...his book down to the American fascination with its...
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I Am Very Prone to Accept All That the Scientists Tell Us, the Truth of It. but I Can't Quite Make the Leap of Unfaith, as It Were, and Say: 'This Is It. Carpe Diem, and Tough Luck' the American Literary Giant John Updike Has Died Aged 76. Here We Pay Tribute to the Double Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Who Chronicled Sex, Divorce and Other Adventures of a Post-War US in Its Prime

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 29, 2009

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Updike, John

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

...Carpe Diem, and Tough Luck the American Literary Giant John Updike...Double Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Who Chronicled Sex, Divorce...Updike won virtually every American literary prize, including...tale of a life, a life led an American citizen who shares the national...
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Novelist Has Hi-Tech Take on Language

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 26, 2011

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Novelists

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Novelist Has Hi-Tech Take on Language. SHES a published novelist and the former editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary. However, the passion that American "dictionary evangelist" Erin McKean has for words stretches far beyond the realms...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american novelist

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Herrick, Robert , American Novelist

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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HERRICK, ROBERT , American novelist 1868 1938, American novelist, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1890...the conflict between professional and personal values in American capitalistic society. His works include The Common Lot...
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James, Henry , American Novelist and Critic

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JAMES, HENRY , American novelist and critic 1843 1916, American novelist and critic, b...Roderick Hudson (1876), The American (1877), Daisy Miller...eager, though often brash, Americans. In the novels of his middle...
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Churchill, Winston , American Novelist

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON , American novelist 1871 1947, American novelist, b. St. Louis, grad. Annapolis, 1894. He wrote several popular historical novels including Richard Carvel (1899), The Crisis (1901), and The Crossing (1904). His...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...by the first professional American novelist, Charles Brockden Brown...coveted by every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...won attention by presenting American folk stories, and James...Longfellow , who won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing verse...
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James, Henry , American Student of Religion and Social Problems

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JAMES, HENRY , American student of religion and social problems 1811 82, American student of religion and social problems, b...father of the philosopher William James and of the novelist Henry James . He rebelled against the strict Calvinist...

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