This new edition of ""Notable American Novelists"" presents
biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the
best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the
19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. The set's
three volumes survey the novelists, whose works are included in
core curricula of high school and undergraduate literature studies.
Essays on living authors and all the bibliographies in the articles
are updated. About two-thirds of the essays are illustrated with
portraits of the writers. ""Notable American Novelists"" features
often-studied writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain,
Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Jack London to Joan Didion
and J. D. Salinger. Other important nineteenth century figures
include Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and George Washington Cable. Among the other major twentieth
century writers featured are Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Joyce
Carol Oates, John Irving, E. L. Doctorow, Joseph Heller, Toni
Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, John Steinbeck, Kurt
Vonnegut, and John Updike. One can also find essays on such widely
read and popular authors as Stephen King, James Michener, Louisa
May Alcott, Larry McMurtry, and Anne Rice. A major addition to this
new edition is the inclusion of Canadian novelists: Margaret
Atwood, Robertson Davies, Frederick Philip Grove, Margaret
Laurence, Mordecai Richler, and Sinclair Ross. Each essay begins
with a presentation of reference information: the novelist's birth
and death dates and a list of the writer's principal works of long
fiction, with publication dates. ""Other literary forms"" then
briefly describes genres other than long fiction in which the
writer has worked, and an ""Achievements"" section encapsulates the
author's central contribution and notes major honors and awards.
The major sections of the text follow: ""Biography"" provides a
sketch of the author's life, and ""Analysis"" looks at the
novelist's work in detail; this section examines central and
well-known works in the author's canon and illuminates the themes
and techniques of primary interest to the novelist. The longest
section in the article, ""Analysis"" is divided into subsections on
the writer's major individual works. Following ""Analysis"" is a
categorized list, ""Other major works,"" that provides titles and
dates of works the author has written in genres other than long
fiction, including plays, poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction.
Each essay concludes with an updated, annotated bibliography. All
articles are signed by the principal writer and, where applicable,
by the updating contributor. Three helpful reference features are
included at the end of volume 3: a glossary entitled ""Terms and
Techniques,"" a time line of the writers' birthdates, and an index.
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