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1) Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields

Pub. Date

1962

Language

English

Formats

Book, Journal, Serial

2) Contemporary authors: New revision series

Pub. Date

c1981

Language

English

3) Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Series

Delta book

Lexile measure

930L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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Aging science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

4) The Oxford companion to American literature

Author

Hart, James D

Language

English

Description

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Alphabetical entries describe American authors and their works.

5) George Ade, warmhearted satirist

Author

Kelly, Fred C

Language

English

6) American writers: a collection of literary biographies

Series

University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers

Language

English

7) Lew Wallace ; an autobiography

Author

Wallace, Lew

Series

Kessinger Publishing's legacy reprints
Genealogy and local history volume LH15496

Language

English

8) 100 most popular science fiction authors: biographical sketches and bibliographies

Author

Heaphy, Maura

Series

Popular authors

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

9) Hide and seek: a continuing journey

Author

West, Jessamyn

Language

English

10) American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Supplement VIII. T.C. Boyle to August Wilson

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

Description

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A collection of essays that offers biographical and critical accounts of eighteen American writers, arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Includes a cumulative index to volumes I-IV, supplements I-VIII, and retrospective supplement I of "American Writers."

11) The woman said yes: encounters with life and death : memoirs

Author

West, Jessamyn

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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The noted American writer celebrates her mother's life-affirming values and behavior and records their influence on her own fight with tuberculosis and her sister's courageous response to the onslaught of incurable spinal cancer.

12) Contemporary American authors; a critical survey and 219 bio-bibliographies

Author

Millett, Fred B

Language

English

13) Ohio authors and their books: biographical data and selective bibliographies for Ohio authors, native and resident, 1796-1950

Author

Coyle, William

Pub. Date

[1962]

Language

English

14) American writers supplement

Pub. Date

[1979]

Language

English

Description

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Essays describe the lives and examine the principal works of significant American authors, also providing selected primary and secondary bibliographies. This supplement volume covers fourteen writers in alphabetical order, from Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie.