Benét's reader's encyclopedia of American literature
By: edited by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger.
Contributors: Perkins, George B., 1930-; Perkins, Barbara, 1933-; Leininger, Phillip, 1928-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1176
Subjects: American literature -- Dictionaries; American literature -- Bio-bibliography; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Other titles: Reader's encyclopedia of American literature.; Benét's reader's encyclopedia.
Description: "Encyclopedia of North and South American writings and writers; novelists, poets, playwrights, writers of nonfiction, essayists, critics, personages, places and events alluded to in literature, literary groups and movements, newspapers, magazines, journals, and literary terms"--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Portions of this book appeared in a somewhat modified form in The reader's encyclopedia of American literature, published by T.Y. Crowell in 1962, and in Benét's reader's encyclopedia, third edition, published by Harper & Row in 1987"--T.p. verso.