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Title Twentieth-century American-Jewish fiction writers / edited by Daniel Walden
Published Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1984
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 367 pages) : portraits
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 28
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 28
Contents Nathan Asch (1902-1964) -- Saul Bellow (1915- ) -- E.M. Broner (1930- ) -- Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) -- Arthur A. Cohen (1928- ) -- E.L. Doctorow (1931- ) -- Stanley Elkin (1930- ) -- Irvin Faust (1924- ) -- Edna Ferber (1885-1968) -- Leslie Fiedler (1917- ) -- Bruce Jay Friedman (1930- ) -- Daniel Fuchs (1909- ) -- Michael Gold (Irwin Granich) (1893-1967) -- Gerald Green (1922- ) -- Ben Hecht (1894-1964) -- Joseph Heller (1923- ) -- Laura Z. Hobson (1900- ) -- Erica Jong (1942- ) -- Roberta Kalechofsky (1931- ) -- Johanna Kaplan (1942- ) -- Harry Kemelman (1908- ) -- Bruno Lessing (Rudolph Block) (1870-1940) -- Meyer Levin (1905-1981) -- Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) -- Norman Mailer (1923- ) -- Bernard Malamud (1914- ) -- Wallace Markfield (1926- ) -- Jay Neugeboren (1938- ) -- Hugh Nissenson (1933- ) -- Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) -- James Oppenheim (1882-1932) -- Samuel Ornitz (1890-1957) -- Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) -- Grace Paley (1922- ) -- Chaim Potok (1929- ) -- Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) -- Norma Rosen (1925- ) -- Isaac Rosenfeld (1918-1956) -- Henry Roth (1906?- ) -- Philip Roth (1933- ) -- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1941- ) -- Budd Schulberg (1914- ) -- Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) -- Roberta Silman (1934- ) -- Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid) (1913- ) -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) -- Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) -- Edward Lewis Wallant (1926-1962) -- Jerome Weidman (1913- ) -- Nathanael West (1903-1940) -- Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970)
Summary Contains essays of authors whose novels and short stories deal with or come out of their American-Jewish experience. Expression of that experience may manifest in the writings either overtly or covertly, positively or negatively, confronting alienation, identity, acculturation or assimilation
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark book."
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject American fiction -- Jewish authors -- Bio-bibliography
American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
American Literature.
American fiction -- Jewish authors.
American fiction.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Novelists, American.
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Walden, Daniel, 1922-2013.
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 84004014
ISBN 0810317060
9780810317062
Other Titles 20th-century American-Jewish fiction writers