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Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: the greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings? Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction? In Burning Down the House, Baxter delves into the social...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Interviews with 13 American and English authors of fantasy fiction discussing their lives, literary influences, work routines and their beliefs about the place of fantasy in literature and our lives. Includes a "reader" listing each author's major fantasy works.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author, " Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century--including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner--first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period. Classic novels such as The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Elmer Gantry, and The Sound and the Fury not only mark prodigious advances in American fiction,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A profile of the life of the influential science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick presented through interviews with contemporaries and excerpts from his writings. Dick's writing and ideas on reality, humanity and technology which blend West Coast utopianism, counterculture paranoia and mystical experience have been adapted into films, including Blade Runner and Total Recall. Since very little interview footage exists of Philip K. Dick, this documentary...
Author
Series
American century volume AC44
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
H. Woulk, E. Heminway, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Wolfe, John Stein beck, J.D. Salinger, J.P. Marquand, Saul Bellow, James Jones, W. Styron, J. Hersey, John Howard Griffin, Nelson Algren.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume 321
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English