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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1997

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American Literature--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--19th Century--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Authors, American--19th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Fiction, Women And Literature--United States--History--19th Century--Dictionaries, Women Authors, American--Biography--Dictionaries

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...woefully incomplete picture of American cultural history provided almost exclusively by male writers. Despite both the resurgent...Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio...guide to seventy- seven American women writers of the nineteenth...
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Joseph Conrad and American Writers: A Bibliographical Study of Affinities, Influences, and Relations

Book by Robert Secor, Debra Moddelmog; Greenwood Press, 1985

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American Literature--History And Criticism--Bibliography, Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924--Bibliography, Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924--Influence--Bibliography, Literature, Comparative--American And English--Bibliography, Literature, Comparative--English And American--Bibliography

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...between Conrad and early nineteenth-century American writers, late nineteenth-century American writers, and twentieth-century American...all entries giving Conrads comments about American writers, even when these comments are presented...
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Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers

Book by Mary E. Young; Greenwood Press, 1993

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American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Chinese American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Popular Culture In Literature, Stereotype (Psychology) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Unlike the Chinese-American writers who choose to ignore their...United States, African-American women writers have preferred...arose from it. Chinese-American women writers have not completed...position similar to African-American women writers during the Harlem...fascination with African-Americans as exotic primitives. A similar...
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The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Book by Joyce W. Warren; Rutgers University Press, 1993

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American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Fiction, Women And Literature--United States--History--19th Century, Women Authors, American--Biography

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...it is, in fact, the male American writers--the canonical writers...Rutgers began publishing the American Women Writers series in 1986, and the Schomburg...so many nineteenth-century American women writers now in print...
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Fiction, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century--Dictionaries, Women Authors, American--Biography--Dictionaries

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...Narratives by Twentieth Century American Women Writers . New York: Harper Perennial...The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist . New York...and M. Thomas Inge, eds. American Women Writers. Bibliographical Essays...

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Journal Articles on: american writers

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Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago

Journal article by Rosemary Hathaway; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

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African American literature--Analysis, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Analysis, Authors--Influence, Authors--Works, Ellison, Ralph--Influence, Ellison, Ralph--Works, Writers--Influence, Writers--Works

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...that researchers and writers were amassing information...history of African Americans may partly confirm...fall of 1935 as a writer and as the only African American in a supervisory position...then returned to the Writers Project until he left...1937 FWP anthology American Stuff attracted praise...the New York City Writers Project, he learned...produced by an FWP writer (Rowley 138). The...
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Interrogating the Silences: Julia C. Collins, 19th-Century Black Readers and Writers, and the Christian Recorder

Journal article by Mitch Kachun; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Authorship, African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, 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--Authorship, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History, 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

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...also for aspiring writers seeking an outlet...dissemination of African American literature in...and for African Americans" (McHenry 137...Harper, these writers sought the moral...development of African American readers, and...intellect in the happy writer. We are sure...American reader and writer in the nineteenth...work of African American writers. Works Cited...
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Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture

Journal article by Hana Wirth-Nesher; American Jewish History, Vol. 95, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture...and personal renewal so that American writers would always be revolting against...he shared with other Jewish American writers and intellectuals, like Allen...
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Tom Dent's Role in the Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir

Journal article by Quo Vadis Gex Breaux; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American authors--Biography, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Biography, African American writers--Works, Authors--Biography, Authors--Services, Authors--Works, Dent, Thomas C.--Biography, Dent, Thomas C.--Services, Dent, Thomas C.--Works, Writers--Biography, Writers--Services, Writers--Works

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...Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir...involvement in the grooming of writers and the organizations that...efforts to keep a group of Black writers workshopping in New Orleans through the Congo Square Writers Union in the 1980s all speak...and mentor, he was poet, writer, journalist, administrator...
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Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer

Journal article by Jerry W. Ward Jr.; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

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Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (Book)

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...creation of the African American writer and to some of the internal...making of an African American writer," regardless of gender...himself a task many male writers find unsettling: to write...structure of his making himself a writer than on the biological continuity...the large body of African American autobiography. We would...with the majority of African Americans. His parentage makes Miller...

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Magazine Articles on: american writers

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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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...worked for the Federal Writers Project, a New Deal...document a wide range of American life. Like other WPA...his own start as a writer. The Chicago FWP office...a member. "These writers will get an education...brought that world to American literature. Their...a People: The WPA Writers Project Uncovers Depression America and the writer/producer of a new...
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New World Reorder: David Herman Hails the Younger Generation of Jewish-American Writers

Magazine article by David Herman; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, April 18, 2011

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American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, American fiction--Jewish authors, American writers--Appreciation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Appreciation, Authors, American--Works, Chabon, Michael--Appreciation, Chabon, Michael--Works, Englander, Nathan--Appreciation, Englander, Nathan--Works, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Appreciation, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Works, Gessen, Keith--Appreciation, Gessen, Keith--Works, Jewish American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Appreciation, Jewish authors--Works, Jewish writers--Appreciation, Jewish writers--Works, Krauss, Nicole--Appreciation, Krauss, Nicole--Works

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...outstanding anthology of Jewish-American literature. Over 1,200...generation of new Jewish-American writers was exploding on...generation of talented young writers, but the emergence of distinctive...attacks, Stalinism, South American dictatorships. They are...refugees, or else young Americans who are fascinated by their...who also happens to be a writer, who has created a character...
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God and the American Writer

Magazine article by Marc M. Arkin; New Criterion, Vol. 16, March 1998

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Books--Reviews, God and the American Writer (Book)--Reviews

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God and the American Writer by Marc M. Arkin...avers that the "American writer was so self-sufficient...heretic in the American style as the self-dependent writers of the `inner light...of the American writer. What insights...
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Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930

Magazine article by Manuel G. Gonzales; California History, Vol. 83, Fall 2005

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Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity (Book), Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930. (Book)

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Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants...BECOMING NEIGHBORS IN A MEXICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: POWER, CONFLICT...immigrants in this country to American economic penetration into...1880s. The author argues that Americans visiting Mexico between 1880...
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Julia Alvarez: Progenitor of a Movement: This Dominican-American Writer Weaves Passionate Sensibilities through Her Works with the Gift of Seeing through Others' Eyes

Magazine article by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, March 2007

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Alvarez, Julia (Writer)--Biography, Women authors--Biography, Women writers--Biography

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...This Dominican-American Writer Weaves Passionate...daring, intrepid writers or poets who appear...think a lot of us writers, and a lot of Americans, suddenly started...asked myself as a writer, like my other...other well-known writers at the inception...first Dominican-American writer and one of the...

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Newspaper Articles on: american writers

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FANPOWERW WINS THE DAY; BRIAN READE - Lifelong Reds Fan, Former ECHO Writer and Now a Daily Mirror Journalist - Has Documented the Ill-Fated Years When Tom Hicks and George Gillett Owned Liverpool FC. in the Second of Two Extracts, He Recalls How People Power Drove the Americans out Extracted from an Epic Swindle: 44 Months with A Pair of Cowboys, Published by Quercus at Pounds 12.99

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), May 6, 2011

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Baseball (Professional)--Fans, Baseball fans, Gillett, George N., Jr., Hicks, Thomas O. (American businessperson), Investment advisers, Journalists, Liverpool Football Club, The Blackstone Group L.P.

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...Lifelong Reds Fan, Former ECHO Writer and Now a Daily Mirror Journalist...leverage buyout was. "The Americans were the on-going target...the fight directly to the Americans and Spirit Of Shankly organisers...Kop Faithfuls handful of writers, it would be posted on the...an impact on influential American decision-makers in those...not ultimately evict the Americans from Anfield, the Royal...
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Eulogizing Peers, American Writers Deliver Affecting Gems of Homage

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2002

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Eulogizing peers, American writers deliver affecting...remembrances" - of American writers, by other American writers. Some are by contemporaries...biographical paragraph to each of the writers and their eulogists, a context...each essay to connect the writer and the eulogist, a reader...
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How a Great American Writer Came to Be Silent

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 13, 2007

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Children, Rampersad, Arnold

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How a Great American Writer Came to Be Silent. Byline...But Ellisons tragedy as a writer was his inability to finish...Ellison the man and the writer in all his glorious complexity...Ellison once called his "writers block as big as the Ritz...
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Mrs. Bush Spotlights American Writers at Inaugural Event

Newspaper article by Andrea Billups; The Washington Times, January 12, 2001

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Bush, George W.

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...Mrs. Bush spotlights American writers at inaugural...Andrea Billups Eighteen American authors, from biographers...have inspired so many Americans." Five writers will read from their...daughter, fiction writer Carol Clark. Also...Movies." The other writers are Steve Harrigan...include "The All-American Skin Game" and "Notes...
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. . . and THEN What Happened? with the American Writers' Strike Bringing All Our Favourite Shows to a Grinding Halt, Self-Confessed US TV Addict Sarah Drew Jones Decided to Step into the Breach with a Few Alternative Plot Lines

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 5, 2008

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...and THEN What Happened? with the American Writers Strike Bringing All Our Favourite...before they went on strike, the writers seemed to have forgotten to write...Matthew Rhys. Lovely. Long live the writers strike! DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES DH...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american writers

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Lowell, John , American Political Writer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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LOWELL, JOHN , American political writer 1769 1840, American political writer, b. Newburyport, Mass.; son of John Lowell (1743 1802). He practiced law, but devoted most of his time to supporting his Federalist views in newspapers and...
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Byrd, William , 1674–1744, American Colonial Writer, Planter, and Government Official

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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BYRD, WILLIAM , 1674 1744, American colonial writer, planter, and government official 1674 1744, American colonial writer, planter, and government official; son of William Byrd (1652 1704...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...included excellent writers, among them Thomas...by every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...attention by presenting American folk stories, and...won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...milieus by a number of American writers, particularly Stephen...reform as well as a writer of Klondike stories...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE the writings...early 19th cent. Prose writers and poets, imbued with...but also a prolific writer and educator. His Life...Handbook of Latin American Literature (1987); C. Sole, ed., Latin American Writers (1989...
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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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AMERICAN ACADEMY AND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS honorary academy of notable American artists, writers, and composers. The National Institute...served as the parent body for the American Academy of Arts and Letters, founded...

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