American Diversity American Identity : The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience

New York: Holt, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xviii, 709 pages ; 25 cm. Stout quarto. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter-bound cloth and paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, else fine. A sharp copy of an amazing reference work. Writers covered: Paula Gunn Allen Louise Erdrich Joy Harjo Linda Hogan N. Scott Momaday Lynn Riggs Leslie Marmon Silko Gerald Vizenor James Welch Louis Auchincloss Anne Bradstreet John Cheever James Fenimore Cooper Emily Dickinson Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Nathaniel Hawthorne John Irving Washington Irving Sarah Orne Jewett William Kennedy Robert Lowell Mary McCarthy Herman Melville John O'Hara Eugene O'Neill J.D. Salinger Henry David Thoreau John Updike Edith Wharton Nelson Algren Saul Bellow Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Arthur Miller Cynthia Ozick Grace Paley Chaim Potok Philip Roth Isaac Bashevis Singer James Agee Wendell Berry Erskine Caldwell Kate Chopin William Faulkner Ellen Glasgow Cormac McCarthy Carson McCullers Flannery O'Connor Walker Percy Edgar Allan Poe Katherine Anne Porter Reynolds Price William Styron Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Tennessee Williams Thomas Wolfe James Baldwin Gwendolyn Brooks Rita Dove Paul Laurence Dunbar Ralph Ellison Ernest J. Gaines Langston Hughes Zora Neal Hurston Charles Johnson Terry McMillan Gloria Naylor Ishmael Reed Jean Toomer Alice Walker John Edgar Wideman August Wilson Richard Wright Ann Beattie Mary Gordon Barbara Kingsolver Joyce Carol Oates Tillie Olsen Sylvia Plath Jane Smiley Wendy Wasserstein Sherwood Anderson Willa Cather Peter De Vries Theodore Dreiser James T. Farrell Sinclair Lewis Wright Morris J.F. Powers Carl Sandburg Larry Woiwode T.S. Eliot Ernest Hemingway Jenry James Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Stephen Crane Joseph Heller James Jones Tim O'Brien Thomas Pynchon Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Raymond Carver Joan Didion Ken Kesey Louis L'Amour Jack London Thomas McGuane Larry McMurtry Frank Norris Sam Shephard Gary Synder Wallace Stegner John Steinbeck Rudolfo A. Anaya Jimmy Santiago Baca Sandra Cisneros Oscar Hijuelos Rolando Hinojosa Gary Soto Luis Miguel Valdez Frank Chin Garrett Hongo David Henry Hwang Cynthia Kadohata Maxine Hong Kingston Bharati Mukherjee Cathy Song Amy Tan Lisa Alther Rita Mae Brown Larry Kramer David Leavitt Audre Lorde Armistead Maupin Paul Monette Edmund White F. Scott Fitzgerald Jack Kerouac Toni Morrison Adrienne Rich Mark Twain Walt Whitman.