Description |
1 online resource (xv, 367 pages) : portraits |
Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 28 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 28
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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." |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
American fiction -- Jewish authors -- Bio-bibliography
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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American Literature.
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American fiction -- Jewish authors.
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American fiction.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Novelists, American.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Walden, Daniel, 1922-2013.
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Gale Research Inc
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LC no. |
84004014 |
ISBN |
0810317060 |
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9780810317062 |
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