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James M. Hutchisson
A study of the literary career of Sinclair Lewis during the period of his greatest achievement, the 1920s. The book examines the making of his novels, their sources, composition, publication…
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A biography of Ernest Hemingway that places his life and art in the defining contexts of the women and places that were important to him, and the pattern of mental…
In 1924 DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a businessman absorbed in his Charleston heritage. One year later he was the world-famous author of Porgy, the first major southern novel to portray…
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A collection of interviews that covers all of Paul Auster’s oeuvre, from The New York Trilogy to Sunset Park (2010), along with his screenplays for Smoke (1995) and Blue in…
Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted…
Reclaims Edgar Allan Poe’s reputation and power, retracing his life and career. Biographer and critic James Hutchisson captures the boisterous worlds of literary New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s…
DuBose Heyward
The fictional characters of Porgy, Bess, Black Maria, Sportin’ Life, and the other Gullah denizens of Catfish Row have attained a mythic status. This novel is the story of Porgy…
Poe’s classic tales and poems are accompanied here by an abundance of material on their literary and social contexts.
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DuBose Heyward was a central figure in both the Charleston and Southern Renaissances, although he is often remembered simply as the author of Porgy , the 1925 novel of Charleston…
Sinclair Lewis
George F Babbitt, a conniving, real estate man from Ohio, revels in his popularity, success, and, especially, in the material rewards they bring. But when his best friend is sent…
Written in the early years of the 1900s Lewis’ central character, highly unusual for the era, is a woman, Una Golden, who gains work in an exclusively male world of…
Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems…
