AMERICAN WRITERS, Supplement VIII

AMERICAN WRITERS, Supplement VIII
By Jay Parini
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 1977-02-01
ISBN-10: 0684312301
ISBN-13: 9780684312309

This volume is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, T. C. Boyle, Jim Harrison, Shelby Hearon, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Gloria Naylor, Paul Theroux, and Oscar Hijuelos have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
The reader will also find essays here on several writers from earlier periods, such as Harper Lee, William Maxwell, Thomas Merton and May Sarton, subjects who for various reasons were neglected in previous volumes and supplements.

Subjects of Supplement VIII:

T. C. BOYLE
JOSEPH BRODSKY
JIM HARRISON
SHELBY HEARON
OSCAR HIJUELOS
ALFRED KAZIN
HARPER LEE
BOBBIE ANN MASON
WILLIAM MAXWELL
CORMAC McCARTHY
THOMAS MERTON
GLORIA NAYLOR
NORMAN PODHORETZ
MAY SARTON
CHARLES SIMIC
GARY SNYDER
PAUL THEROUX
AUGUST WILSON