Becoming Americans
Subtitle: four centuries of immigrant writing
By: edited by Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Pete Hamill.
Contributors: Stavans, Ilan.; Library of America (Firm)
Series: Library of America; Library of America
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade by Penguin Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9781598530513
Subjects: Immigrants' writings, American; Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections; Immigrants -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections
Description: Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States.
Notes: "A special publication of the Library of America."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 787-717) and index.