Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Literary Figures

Between 1922 and 1930, Carl Van Vechten--one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance--kept a daily record of his activities. The records recount his day-to-day life, as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of the period's luminaries, providing a rich resource for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York and the social milieu during Prohibition. Bruce Kellner has provided copious informative notes identifying central figures and clarifying details.

Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western.

Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and...

"Though far from the author s usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac... this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries." Library Journal

"Theodore Dreiser, road warrior... Dreiser s account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one.... In that, as in so much else in this book, as in the great body of all his work, Dreiser in his earnest, heartfelt, clumsy way speaks to the universal experience." Jonathan Yardley,...

..". a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." Religious Studies Review

The fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.

"Toth and Seyersted's well-organized, carefully edited volume makes available all manuscripts and related items from all archival collections.... This volume is essential for American literature collections." --Choice

An edition of the primarily unpublished papers of Kate Chopin, author of the feminist classic The Awakening. These papers illuminate the growth of Chopin as a writer, reveal the reactions of critics to her work, and settle a number of controversies in Chopin studies.

"Though far from the author's usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac... this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries." --Library Journal

"Theodore Dreiser, road warrior... Dreiser's account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one.... In that, as in so much else in this book, as in the great body of all his work, Dreiser in his earnest, heartfelt, clumsy way speaks to the universal experience." --Jonathan Yardley,...

..". some 10 years of painstaking enquiry are presented with sustained energy... Ezenwa-Ohaeto has completed a remarkable feat..." --West Africa

..". a gold mine of a source for future researchers." --The Literary Griot

..". in this meticulously researched work, Ezenwa-Ohaeto] provides a wealth of information that should prove invaluable to all future studies of Achebe." --Library Journal

"Great back-up for classes reading Achebe's Things Fall Apart." --Booklist

"This pioneering biography draws upon a wealth of printed and oral sources to produce a vivid record of...

..". scrupulous, fair-minded and richly-detailed study... the book charts one of the most remarkable intellectual careers of the 20th century s latter half.... What is most heartening about Mr. Alexander s biography is its exemplary civility and nuance in discussing ideas across the lines of political difference." Nathan Glick, Washington Times

"Anyone interested in Howe s varied career, and the historical context that has given it its particular shape American radicalism, the Cold War and anticommunism, the New Left, literary modernism, Jewish life will profit handsomely from...

In the Footsteps of Orpheus
The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti
Zsuzsanna Ozsvath

A powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet.

"Zsuzsanna Ozsvath bring s] forth Radnoti s life, his thought, and his passion with a depth of insight that is rare in a scholar. Brilliant, penetrating, and passionate, Ozsvath s book sets a new standard of excellence in Holocaust studies. It is a must for anyone who would approach the dark flame that burns at the core of the Event." David Patterson, University of Memphis
Miklos Radnoti, a...

The Rise of Sinclair Lewis examines the making of Lewis's best-selling novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry--their sources, composition, publication, and subsequent critical reception. Drawing on thousands of pages of material from Lewis's notes, outlines, and drafts--most of it never before published--James M. Hutchisson shows how Lewis selected usable materials and shaped them, through his unique vision, into novels that reached and remained part of the American literary imagination. Hutchisson also describes for the first...