American Writers, Supplement XIV - A Collection of Critical Literary and Biographical Articles That Cover Hundreds of Notable Authors from the 17th Century to the Present Day. (Hardcover, 14th ed.)

The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at www.gale.com/scribners. Among the authors covered in the "Supplement are James Lee Burke, Charles Chestnutt, Evan S. Connell, Christopher Isherwood, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley.