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AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES

American

Writers

ELIZABETH H. OAKES

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Oakes, Elizabeth H ., 1964–

American writers / Elizabeth H. Oakes.

p. cm. — (American biographies)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.

ISBN 0-8160-5158-5 (acid-free paper)

1. American Literature—Bio-bibliography—Dictionaries. 2. Authors, American—

Biography—Dictionaries. 3. American literature—Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series.

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C ONTENTS

List of Entries iv

Author’s Note vii

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction

A to Z Entries

Bibliography and Recommended Sources 389

Entries by Literary Genre 391

Entries by Literary Movement/

Region/Subject/Style 397

Entries by Year of Birth 403

Index 407

L IST OF E NTRIES

Abbey, Edward

Abu-Jaber, Diana

Ackerman, Diane

Agee, James

Ai (Florence Anthony)

Aiken, Conrad

Albee, Edward

Alcott, Louisa May

Alexie, Sherman

Alger, Horatio

Algren, Nelson

Allen, Paula Gunn

Ammons, A. R.

Anderson, Sherwood

Angelou, Maya

Ansay, A. Manette

Ashbery, John

Asimov, Isaac

Atwood, Margaret

Auden, W. H.

Baldwin, James

Bambara, Toni Cade

Banks, Russell

Baraka, Amiri

Barthelme, Donald

Baum, L. Frank

Bell, Madison Smartt

Bellow, Saul

Berry, Wendell

Berryman, John

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bly, Robert

Bogan, Louise

Bontemps, Arna

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Bradbury, Ray

Bradstreet, Anne

Brautigan, Richard

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Bruchac, Joseph

Bryant, William Cullen

Buck, Pearl S.

Bukowski, Charles

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Burroughs, John

Burroughs, William S.

Caldwell, Erskine

Capote, Truman

Carver, Raymond

Cather, Willa

Chandler, Raymond

Chávez, Denise

Cheever, John

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell

Chin, Marilyn

Chopin, Kate

Cisneros, Sandra

Clifton, Lucille

Cooper, James Fenimore

Crane, Hart

Crane, Stephen

Creeley, Robert

Cullen, Countee

cummings, e. e.

Davies, Robertson

Davis, Rebecca Harding

DeLillo, Don

Dickey, James

Dickinson, Emily

Didion, Joan

Dillard, Annie

di Prima, Diane

Doctorow, E. L.

Dorris, Michael

Dos Passos, John

Dove, Rita

Dreiser, Theodore

DuBois, W. E. B.

Eliot, T. S.

Ellison, Ralph

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Erdrich, Louise

Faulkner, William

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Ford, Richard

Freeman, Mary Wilkins

Freneau, Phillip

Frost, Robert

Fuller, Margaret

Gibbons, Kaye

Gilchrist, Ellen

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Ginsberg, Allen

Giovanni, Nikki

Glasgow, Ellen

Glück, Louise

Green, Paul

Haley, Alex

Hall, Donald

Hamilton, Jane

Hansberry, Lorraine

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