James Baldwin -- Saul Bellow -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Kate Chopin -- Hart Crane -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ralph Ellison -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Robert Lowell -- Norman Mailer -- Flannery O'Connor -- Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Adrienne Rich -- Philip Roth -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Nathanael West
Summary
Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field
