A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors -- an all-original,...
This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work.
Here, in more than forty essays, are Woolf's thoughts on her contemporaries in the art of fiction; reviewing and criticism; and one of her favorite themes, female novelists. Among the...
This work gives authoritative coverage on 300 current popular and best-known novelists, playwrights, poets, short story and non-fiction writers. It includes Piers Anthony, Dave Barry, Stephen King, Danielle Steele, and...
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary AuthorsĀ® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors.
In high school I was reading Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Doris Lessing (The Golden Notehoo/e), Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf. Prohahly, many serious young adult readers are lilee this. Which hrings us to an interesting question: what is a ...
In this anthology twenty-six contemporary fiction writers and poets offer short essays on a single movie that inspired, seduced, horrified, or fascinated them, giving readers a rare glimpse of the writer's perspective on film.
When strange animals land in Red's yard, he and his friend Slim agree to keep it to themselves.
Presents biographical and bibliographical information on authors of literary significance who have written in the English language.
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).