American writers
Subtitle: a collection of literary biographies
By: Leonard Unger, editor in chief.
Contributors: Unger, Leonard.; Litz, A. Walton.; Weigel, Molly.; Parini, Jay.
Series: University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers.
Publisher: Scribner; Charles Scribners & Sons; Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- Bio-bibliography; Authors, American -- Biography
Description: The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
The 4-vol. main set consists of 97 of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; some have been rev. and updated. The supplements cover writers not included in the original series.
Supplement 2, <4> have editor in chief, A. Walton Litz ; Suppl. <3> edited by Lea Bechler, A. Walton Litz ; Retrospective suppl. 1, c1998, edited by A. Walton Litz & Molly Weigel ; Suppl. 5-<14> and Retrospective suppl. 2 have editor-in-chief, Jay Parini.
Two different volumes issued as Restrospective supplement II.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot; title: v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers; title: v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana; title: v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright; title: Supplement 1, pt. 1-2; title: Supplement 2, pt. 1-2; title: Supplement 3, pt. 1-2. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1, 2, and 3; title: Supplement 4, pt. 1-2; title: Retrospective supplement 1; title: Supplement 5; title: Supplement 6; title: Supplement 7; title: Supplement 8; title: Supplement 9; title: Supplement 10; title: Supplement 11; title: Retrospective supplement 2. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1-12 and retrospective supplements 1-2; title: Supplement 12. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1-12 and retrospective supplements 1-2; title: Supplement 13; title: Supplement 14. Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements 1-14, and retrospective supplements 1-2