Each volume in this award-winning series profiles about 8 to 10 novelists, poets, scriptwriters and other creative writers. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted full-text or excerpted critical essays and reviews. Includes annotations, full citations and a list of further reading sources.

Each volume in this award-winning series profiles about 8 to 10 novelists, poets, scriptwriters and other creative writers. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted full-text or excerpted critical essays and reviews. Includes annotations, full citations and a list of further reading sources.

Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: Maya Angelou Patricia Cornwell Cynthia Ozick Richard Rodriguez

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: Milos Forman Maxine Kuman Irving Layton Li-Young Lee Peter Novick

Contemporary Literary Criticism covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series include an author portrait....

< p>< I> Contemporary Literary Criticism< /I> covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.< p>Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series...

< p>< I> Contemporary Literary Criticism< /I> covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.< p>Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series...

< p>< I> Contemporary Literary Criticism< /I> covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.< p>Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series...