Modern American women writers
By: Elaine Showalter, consulting editor, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors.
Contributors: Showalter, Elaine.; Baechler, Lea.; Litz, A. Walton.
Publisher: Scribner; Collier Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- Dictionaries; Women authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries; American literature -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Dictionaries; American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; American literature -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
Description: An encyclopedia of American women writers, examining the lives and works of forty-one authors including Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Adrienne Rich, and Eudora Welty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.