Donald Windham: A Bio-Bibliography

Bruce Kellner worked directly from the collection of relatively overlooked novelist Donald Windham to produce this reference work. Entries on books, pamphlets, articles and criticism provide a comprehensive record of Windham’s literary development, critical reception, failures, and achievements. Kellner introduces the bio-bibliography with a discussion of Donald Windham’s background, writing style, and reception by publishers and readers. He likens Windham’s exacting, subtle style to the quiet eloquence of E.M. Forster, and he suggests that America’s action-oriented culture lacks patience for Windham’s offerings, which are sexual but not erotic, gay but not titillating, Southern but not cliched. The book, which includes an addendum to the introduction by Windham himself, is divided into five parts. This book is aimed at students, scholars, and general audiences of literature.