num_pages: 557
description: In the three decades following World War II, the novel as a literary form flourished in America. As the baby boom generation matured, so did the market for fiction. By the mid-70s, nearly 1, 800 hardcover books of fiction were being published every year along with a comparable number of paperbacks. The proliferation of paperbacks brought low prices and huge press runs. The resulting mass marketing of novels brought a new visibility to works of fiction and gave rise to a new generation of American novelists. And, as the publishing industry boomed, there was a similar increase in the field of literary criticism, giving a wealth of scholarly material from which to derive the 80 author profiles found in this DLB volume. 80 entries James Baldwin, John Barth, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Jerzy Kosinski, Mary McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Gore Vida, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Eudora Welty.
language: English
title: DLB 2: American Novelists since World War II, First Series
titlecomplete: DLB 2: American Novelists since World War II, First Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2)
publisher: Gale Research Inc