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Critical survey of short fiction. American writers / editor, Charles E. May.

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Publication Info.
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2012]
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©2012

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Edition
4th ed.
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 23, 2012).
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Lee K. Abbott -- Alice Adams -- James Agee -- Conrad Aiken -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Sherman Alexie -- Nelson Algren -- Woody Allen -- Dorothy Allison -- Steve Almond -- Sherwood Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Max Apple -- Isaac Asimov -- Louis Auchincloss -- James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Melissa Bank -- Russell Banks -- Keith Banner -- Amiri Baraka -- Andrea Barrett -- John Barth -- Donald Barthelme -- Frederick Barthelme -- Rick Bass -- Richard Bausch -- Charles Baxter -- Ann Beattie -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Saul Bellow -- Aimee Bender -- Pinckney Benedict -- Stephen Vincent Benét -- Gina Berriault -- Wendell Berry -- Doris Betts -- Ambrose Bierce -- Amy Bloom -- Arna Bontemps -- Robert Boswell -- Jane Bowles -- Paul Bowles -- Kay Boyle -- T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Ray Bradbury -- Catherine Brady -- Richard Brautigan -- Kate Braverman -- Kevin Brockmeier -- Harold Brodkey -- Jason Brown -- Larry Brown -- Bliss Broyard -- Pearl S. Buck -- James Lee Burke -- Frederick Busch -- Robert Olen Butler -- Michael Byers -- Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- George Washington Cable -- James M. Cain -- Erskine Caldwell -- Hortense Calisher -- Ethan Canin -- Mary Caponegro -- Truman Capote -- Orson Scott Card -- Ron Carlson -- John Dickson Carr -- Raymond Carver -- R.V. Cassill -- Willa Cather -- Michael Chabon -- Raymond Chandler -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Dan Chaon -- Fred Chappell -- John Cheever -- Kelly Cherry -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Kate Chopin -- Sandra Cisneros -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Evan S. Connell -- Frank Conroy -- Robert Coover -- James Gould Cozzens -- Stephen Crane -- Moira Crone.
Charles D'Ambrosio -- Edwidge Danticat -- Guy Davenport -- Peter Ho Davies -- Lydia Davis -- Samuel R. Delany -- August Derleth -- Junot Díaz -- Philip K. Dick -- Thomas M. Disch -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Stephen Dixon -- E.L. Doctorow -- Anthony Doerr -- Harriet Doerr -- Michael Dorris -- Ellen Douglas -- Theodore Dreiser -- Andre Dubus -- Rikki Ducornet -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Stuart Dybek -- Tony Earley -- Deborah Eisenberg -- Stanley Elkin -- George P. Elliott -- Harlan Ellison -- Ralph Ellison -- Nathan Englander -- Louise Erdrich -- Brian Evenson -- Percival Everett -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Richard Ford -- Paula Fox -- Benjamin Franklin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Nell Freudenberger -- Bruce Jay Friedman -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Mary Gaitskill -- John Gardner -- Hamlin Garland -- George Garrett -- William H. Gass -- David Gates -- Tim Gautreaux -- William Gay -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Ellen Glasgow -- Gail Godwin -- Herbert Gold -- Caroline Gordon -- Mary Gordon -- William Goyen -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Joanne Greenberg -- John Grisham -- Allan Gurganus -- Alyson Hagy -- Nancy Hale -- Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Martha Lacy Hall -- Dashiell Hammett -- Barry Hannah -- Ron Hansen -- Joy Harjo -- Joel Chandler Harris -- Jim Harrison -- Bret Harte -- Adam Haslett -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Mark Helprin -- Ernest Hemingway -- Amy Hempel -- Cristina Henríquez -- O. Henry -- Patricia Highsmith -- Chester Himes -- Edward D. Hoch -- A.M. Homes -- Pam Houston -- William Dean Howells -- Langston Hughes -- William Humphrey -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Washington Irving.
Shirley Jackson -- Henry James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Adam Johnson -- Charles Johnson -- Denis Johnson -- Bret Anthony Johnston -- Edward P. Jones -- Thom Jones -- David Michael Kaplan -- Garrison Keillor -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Stephen King -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- John Knowles -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Ring Lardner -- David Leavitt -- Andrea Lee -- Joan Leegant -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- J. Robert Lennon -- Jonathan Lethem -- John L'Heureux -- Yiyun Li -- Jack London -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- Barry Lopez -- Beth Lordan -- Bret Lott -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Clarence Major -- Bernard Malamud -- Paule Marshall -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Mary McCarthy -- Jill McCorkle -- Carson McCullers -- Thomas McGuane -- Reginald McKnight -- James Alan McPherson -- David Means -- Maile Meloy -- Herman Melville -- Leonard Michaels -- Sue Miller -- Steven Millhauser -- Susan Minot -- Rick Moody -- Lorrie Moore -- Wright Morris -- Walter Mosley -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Antonya Nelson -- Gurney Norman -- Frank Norris -- Beth Nugent -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tim O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- Chris Offutt -- John O'Hara -- Tillie Olsen -- Julie Orringer -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Cynthia Ozick -- ZZ Packer -- Tom Paine -- Grace Paley -- Breece D'J Pancake -- Dorothy Parker -- Edith Pearlman -- Dale Peck -- Susan Perabo -- S.J. Perelman -- Ann Petry -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Donald Ray Pollock -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Padgett Powell -- J.F. Powers -- Reynolds Price -- Francine Prose -- E. Annie Proulx -- James Purdy -- Thomas Pynchon -- Ellery Queen -- Ron Rash -- Elwood Reid -- Mark Richard -- Tomás Rivera -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Roxana Robinson -- Mary Robison -- Philip Roth -- Richard Russo.
J.D. Salinger -- James Salter -- William Saroyan -- George Saunders -- John Sayles -- Delmore Schwartz -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Bob Shacochis -- Irwin Shaw -- Sam Shepard -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Marisa Silver -- William Gilmore Simms -- Helen Simpson -- Mona Simpson -- Julia Slavin -- Jane Smiley -- Lee Smith -- Susan Sontag -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Jean Stafford -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Wallace Stegner -- Gertrude Stein -- John Steinbeck -- Richard G. Stern -- James Still -- Frank R. Stockton -- Robert Stone -- Susan Straight -- Elizabeth Strout -- Jesse Stuart -- Theodore Sturgeon -- Elizabeth Tallent -- Amy Tan -- Barry Targan -- Peter Taylor -- Jean Thompson -- James Thurber -- Christopher Tilghman -- Jean Toomer -- Wells Tower -- Mark Twain -- Anne Tyler -- John Updike -- Helena María Viramontes -- Gerald R. Vizenor -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Kate Walbert -- Alice Walker -- David Foster Wallace -- Robert Penn Warren -- Mary Yukari Waters -- Jerome Weidman -- Eudora Welty -- Glenway Wescott -- Jessamyn West -- Edith Wharton -- E.B. White -- John Edgar Wideman -- Marianne Wiggins -- Joy Williams -- Tennessee Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Larry Woiwode -- Thomas Wolfe -- Tobias Wolff -- Richard Wright -- Paul Yoon -- Terms and Techniques: Short Fiction Writers -- Bibliography: American Short Fiction Writers -- Guide to Online Resources: American Short Fiction Writers -- Time Line: American Short Fiction Writers -- Major Awards: American Short Fiction Writers -- Chronological List of American Short Fiction Writers -- Categorical Index: American Short Fiction Writers.
Summary
Provides profiles of major short-story writers throughout history and the world. American authors covered include Sherman Alexie, Saul Bellow, Benjamin Franklin, Dashiell Hammett, Herman Melville, Dorothy Parker, John Updike, and Edith Wharton. New to this edition are Edwidge Danticat, John Grisham, Walter Mosley and Paul Yoon.
Subject
Short story.
Short story -- Bio-bibliography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Short story.
Genre/Form
Bio-bibliography.
Added Author
May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-
Added Title
American writers
ISBN
9781587658051 (electronic bk.)
1587658054 (electronic bk.)