American writers: a collection of literary biographies

v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot

v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers

v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana

v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright

Supplement[s] : 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier

1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie

2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry

2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winter

3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy

3, pt. 2. Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and Cumulative index to volumes 1-4

Supplements 1,2 and 3

Supplement 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan, pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal

5. Russell Banks to Charles Wright

6. Don Delillo to W.D. Snodgrass

7. Julia Alvarez to Tobias Wolff

8. T.C. Boyle to August Wilson

9. Nelson Algren to David Wagoner

10. Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman

11. Toni Cade Bambara to Richard Yates

12. Kathy Acker to Richard Russo

13. Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith

14. Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith

15. Woody Allen to C.D. Wright

16. John James Audubon to Gustav Sobin

17. Max Apple to Franz Wright

18. Charles Frederick Briggs to Robert Wrigley

19. David Budbill to Bruce Weigl

20. Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley

21. Neith Boyce to Ira Wolfert

22. Arna Bontemps to Laura Ingalls Wilder

23. Sholem Asch to Jean Thompson

24. Pearl Abraham to Hunter S. Thompson.

v. 1. Henry Adams

James Agee

Conrad Aiken

Edward Albee

Sherwood Anderson

John Barth

Saul Bellow

John Berryman

Ambrose Bierce

Randolph Bourne

Van Wyck Brooks

Kenneth Burke

Erskine Caldwell

Willa Cather

James Fenimore Cooper

James Gould Cozzens

Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

E.E. Cummings

Emily Dickinson

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

Richard Eberhart

Jonathan Edwards

T.S. Eliot.

v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Franklin

Harold Frederic

Robert Frost

Ellen Glasgow

Caroline Gordon

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ernest Hemingway

William Dean Howells

Washington Irving

Henry James

William James

Randall Jarrell

Sarah Orne Jewett

Ring Lardner

Sinclair Lewis

Jack London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Amy Lowell

Robert Lowell

Mary McCarthy

Carson McCullers.

v. 3. Archibald MacLeish

Norman Mailer

John P. Marquand

Herman Melville

H.L. Mencken

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Arthur Miller

Henry Miller

Marianne Moore

Wright Morris

Vladimir Nabokov

Howard Nemerov

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frank Norris

Flannery O'Connor

John O'Hara

Eugene O'Neill

Edgar Allan Poe

Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

John Crowe Ransom

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Theodore Roethke

J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

George Santayana.

v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gertrude Stein

John Steinbeck

Wallace Stevens

William Styron

Allen Tate

Edward Taylor

Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

John Updike

Robert Penn Warren

Eudora Welty

Nathanael West

Edith Wharton

Walt Whitman

Thornton Wilder

Tennessee Williams

William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson

Thomas Wolfe

Richard Wright.

Supplement 1. Part 1. Jane Addams / Clarke Chambers

Louisa May Alcott / Ann Douglas

James Baldwin / Keneth Kinnamon

Elizabeth Bishop / John E. Unterecker

Anne Bradstreet / Cheryl Walker

Charles Brockden Brown / Emory B. Elliott

William Cullen Bryant / Donald A. Ringe

John Cheever / Scott Donaldson

Kate Chopin / Cynthia Griffin Wolff

M.-G. Jean de Crevecoeur / Chadwick Hansen

Hilda Doolittle / Peter E. Firchow

Lillian Hellman / Bernard F. Dick

Oliver Wendell Holmes / Thomas R. Wortham

Langston Hughes / Donald C. Dickinson

Sidney Lanier / Thomas Daniel Young.

Supplement 1. Part 2. Vachel Lindsay / Jay R. Balderson

James Russell Lowell / Walter Blair

Bernard Malamud / Robert Solotaroff

Edgar Lee Masters / Linda W. Wagner

Samuel Eliot Morison / David Herold

Thomas Paine / Michael D. Truej

Sylvia Plath / Lonna M. Malmsheimer

Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin

Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul David Johnson

James Thurber / Robert E. Morsberger

Thorstein Veblen / John P. Diggins

E.B. White / Barbara J. Rogers

John Greenleaf Whittier / John B. Pickard

Elinor Wylie / Josephine O'Brien Schaefer.

Supplement 2. Part 1. W.H. Auden / Edward Mendelson

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / William C. Fischer

Joel Barlow / Jeffrey Walker

R.P. Blackmur / Russell A. Fraser

Pearl S. Buck / Paul A. Doyle

Malcolm Cowley / George Core

W.E.B. Du Bois / Herbert Aptheker

Paul Laurence Dunbar / Charles T. Davis

Ralph Ellison / Robert O'Meally

Philip Freneau / Maureen Goldman

Margaret Fuller / Bell Gale Chevigny

Allen Ginsberg / James Mersmann

Bret Harte / Wilton Eckley

Robert Hayden / Robert M. Greenberg

O. Henry / Kent Bales.

Supplement 2. Part 2. Robinson Jeffers / R.W. Butterfield

Cotton Mather / Ormond Seavey

Lewis Mumford / Peter Firchow

Joyce Carol Oates / Diane Tolomeo

Clifford Odets / Frank R. Cunningham

Charles Olson / Maxine Olian Apsel

Francis Parkman / Verlyn Klinkenborg

Thomas Pynchon / Richard Pearce

Delmore Schwartz / Paul Breslin

Anne Sexton / Susan Resneck Parr

Karl Shapiro / Michael True

Carl Van Vechten / Bruce Kellner

Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed

Yvor Winters / Robert von Hallberg.

Supplement 4. Part 1. Maya Angelou / Mary Jane Lupton

Louis Auchincloss / Carol Gelderman

Donald Barthelme / Gwen Crane

Robert Bly / William V. Davis

Paul Bowles / Allen Hibbard

Ray Bradbury / William F. Touponce

Raymond Chandler / Peter L. Cooper

Robert Creeley / Bill Piper

Countee Cullen / Gerald Early

James Dickey / Ronald Baughman

Joan Didion / C.K. Doreski

E.L. Doctorow / Randy Malamud

Rita Dove / Lesley Wheeler

Louise Erdrich / Pauline Groetz Woodward

William Gaddis / William Doreski

Mary Gordon / Alma Bennett

Paula Gunn Allen / Lauren Miller with Jacqueline Shea Murphy

Dashiell Hammett / Robert Worth

Lorraine Hansberry / Steven R. Carter

Joseph Heller / Sanford Pinsker

Linda Hogan / Anna Carew-Miller.

Supplement 4. Part 2. Susan Howe / Molly Weigel

Maxine Kumin / Steven A. Nardi

Ross MacDonald / Janet Gray

N. Scott Momaday / Sally L. Joyce

Simon J. Ortiz / Patricia Clark Smith

Ayn Rand / Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Alberto Alvaro Rios / Adrian Perez Melgosa

Leslie Marmon Silko / Celeste Goodridge

Neil Simon / J. Ellen Gainor

Wallace Stegner / Mark S. Braley

Mark Strand / Jeffery Donaldson

May Swenson / Jane Eldridge Miller

Anne Tyler / Mary Margaret Richards

Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.

Retrospective Supplement 1. Willa Cather / Sharon O'Brien

Emily Dickinson / Janet Gray

T.S. Eliot / Ronald Bush

William Faulkner / David Minter

F. Scott Fitzgerald / C.K. Doreski

Nathaniel Hawthorne / Evan Carton

Ernest Hemingway / Scott Donaldson

Langston Hughes / David Roessel

Henry James / Daniel Fogel

Herman Melville / T. Walter Herbert

Vladimir Nabokov / Michael Wood

Ezra Pound / A. Walton Litz

Wallace Stevens / James Longenbach

John Updike / Dean Flower

Eudora Welty / Veronica Makowsky

Edith Wharton / Jeannie Kassanoff

Walt Whitman / Tenney Nathanson

William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan.

Supplement 5. Russell Banks ; Ann Beattie ; Robert Coover ; Richard Ford ; Louise Gluck ; A.R. Gurney ; Erica Jong ; Stephen King ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Philip Levine

Peter Matthiessen ; Larry McMurty ; Tim O'Brien ; Cynthia Ozick ; Upton Sinclair; Robert Stone ; Peter Taylor ; Charles Wright.

Supplement 6. Don Delillo ; Annie Dillard ; Stanley Elkin ; John Gardner ; William Gass Robert Hass ; Irving Howe ; Richard Hugo ; Zora Neale Hurston ; John Irving ; Charles Johnson ; Susan Minot ; Grace Paley ; Robert Pinsky ; Reynolds Price ; Muriel Rukeyser ; Jane Smiley ; W.D. Snodgrass.

Supplement 7. Julia Alvarez ; A.R. Ammons ; Richard Bausch ; Sandra Cisneros ; Andre Dubus ; Gearge Garrett ; Donald Justice ; William Kennedy ; Jane Kenyon ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Barbara Kingsolver ; Jerzy Kosinski ; Mary Oliver ; Annie Proulx ; James Purdy ; Anne Rice ; Carol Shields ; Tobias Wolff.

Supplement 8. T.C. Boyle ; Joseph Brodsky ; Jim Harrison ; Shelby Hearon ; Oscar Hijuelos ; Alfred Kazin ; Harper Lee ; Bobbie Ann Mason ; William Maxwell ; Cormac McCarthey ; Thomas Merton ; Gloria Naylor ; Norman Podhoretz ; May Sarton ; Charles Simic ; Gary Snyder ; Paul Theroux ; August Wilson.

Supplement 9. Nelson Algren ; Rachel Carson ; Amy Clampitt ; Zelda Fitzgerald ; Robert Francis ; William Humphrey ; Shirley Jackson ; Tony Kushner ; William Matthews ; John Mur ; Dorothy Parker ; Richard Powers ; Henry Roth ; James Salter ; Louis Simpson ; Gerald Stern ; Jean Toomer ; David Wagoner.

Supplement 10. Madison Smartt Bell ; Wendell Berry ; Kaye Gibbons ; Anthony He ; James Baldwin ; Saul Bellow ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Kate Chopin ; Hart Crane ; Theodore Dreiser ; Ralph Ellison ; Sarah Orne Jewett ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Robert Lowell ; Norman Mailer ; Flannery O'Connor ; Sylvia Plath ; Edgar Allen Poe ; Adrienne Rich ; Philip Roth ; Isaac Bachevis Singer ; Nathanael West.cht ; Alice Hoffman ; Anne LaBastille ; Thomas McGrath ; Claude McKay ; Paul Monette ; Lorrie Moore ; Anais Nin ; Sharon Olds ; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; Ishmael Reed ; Tom Robbins ; Amy Tan ; David Foster Wallace ; John Edgar Wideman.

Supplement 11. Toni Cade Bambara ; Frederick Barthelme ; Stephen Vincent Benet ; Michael Chabon ; Wanda Coleman ; Harry Crews ; Mark Doty ; Stephen Dunn ; John Fante ; Cristina Garcia ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; James Jones ; Mary Karr ; Larry Levis ; Paul Marshall ; Terry Southern ; William Stafford ; Richard Yates.

Supplement 12. Kathy Acker ; Paul Auster ; Frederick Buechner ; Robert Olen Butler ; Peter Cameron ; Anne Carson ; Gregory Corso ; Stephen Dixon ; Leslie Epstein ; Albert Goldbarth ; John Haines ; Joy Harjo ; John Knowles ; J.D. McClatchy ;Frank McCourt ; Sue Miller ; Ann Patchett ; Richard Russo.

Supplement 13. Edward Abbey ; Margaret Atwood ; Nicholson Baker ; Octavia Butler ; Stephen Dobyns ; Leslie Fiedler ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Lucy Larcom ; Horace McCoy ; Terry McMillan : Terrence McNally ; Pat Mora ; Walter Mosley ; John Nichols ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Tillie Olsen ; Luis Omar Salinas ; William Jay Smtih.

Supplement 14. Cleanth Brooks ; James Lee Burke ; John Jay Chapman ; Charles W. Chesnutt ; Evan S. Connell ; Joseph Epstein ; Sara Henderson Hay ; Herbert Huncke ; Christopher Isherwood ; Aldo Leopold ; Alain Locke ; Norman Maclean ; David Mamet ; Linda McCarriston ; Charles Reznikoff; Richard Rodriguez ; John Patrick Shanley ; Logan Pearsall Smith.

Supplement 15. Woody Allen ; Frank Bidart ; Witter Bynner ; Michael Cunningham ; Peter Everwine ; Carol Frost ; Dana Gioia ; Weldon Kees ; X.J. Kennedy ; Kenneth Koch ; Ed Lacy ; Li-Young Lee ; Susanna Rowson ; Gjertrud Schnackenberg ; Elizabeth Stoddard ; Louis Untermeyer ; Wendy Wasserstein ; C.D. Wright.

Supplement 16. John James Audubon ; Rick Bass ; Carol Bly ; Hayden Carruth ; Frank Conroy ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Theodor Seuss Geisel ; William Gibson ; Chester Himes ; Eva Hoffman ; Garrison Keillor ; Anita Loos ; Leonard Michaels ; Jay Neugeboren ; George Plimpton ; Francine Prose ; Scott Russell Sanders ; Gustaf Sobin.

Supplement 17. Max Apple ; Charles Baxter ; Linda Bierds ; Melvin Bukiet ; Guy Endore ; Annie Finch ; M.F.K. Fisher ; Hutchins Hapgood ; Mark Jarman ; Brigit Pegeen Kelly ; David Markson ; Willard Motley ; Anna Quindlen ; Joanna Scott ; Gay Talese ; Scott Turow ; William Vollmann ; Franz Wright.

Supplement 18. Charles Frederick Briggs ; Bob Dylan ; Margaret Edson ; Percival Everett ; William Hoffman ; Ha Jin ; Jon Krakauer ; Nella Larsen ; Jonathan Lethem ; Alice McDermott ; Marilyn Nelson ; Janisse Ray ; Conrad Richter ; Paul William Ryan ; Budd Schulberg ; Susan Warner ; Dorothy West ; Robert Wrigley.

Supplement 19. David Budbill ; Philip Caputo ; W.S. Di Piero ; Jennifer Egan ; Rudolph Fisher ; Mark Halliday ; Rolando Hinojosa ; Ted Kooser ; Thomas Mallon ; Albert Murray ; Chris Offutt ; Robert B. Parker ; Molly Peacock ; Mark Richard ; George Saunders ; Irwin Shaw ; Harvey Swados ; Bruce Weigl.

Supplement 20. Mary Antin ; T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Pietro Di Donato ; Timothy Findley ; Waldo Frank ; Jonathan Franzen ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Kahlil Gibran ; Anne Lamott ; Reginald McKnight ; Jim Wayne Miller ; Tova Mirvis ; Floyd Skloot ; Gene Stratton-Porter ; Howard Overing Sturgis ; Leon Uris ; Patricia Nell Warren ; Phillis Wheatley.

Supplement 21. Neith Boyce ; William Bronk ; Larry Brown ; Billy Collins ; Michael Connelly ; William Virgil Davis ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Amy Hempel ; Lynda Hull ; David Henry Hwang ; C.L.R. James ; Jhumpa Lahiri ; Sam Pickering ; Marilynne Robinson ; Gilbert Sorrentino ; Natasha Trethewey ; Ira Wolfert.

Supplement 22. Arna Bontemps ; Agnes Boulton ; William Bradford ; Kevin Brockmeier ; Michelle Cliff ; Patricia Hampl ; Larry Heinemann ; Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ; Edward P. Jones ; Mina Loy ; Clarence Major ; Caroline Miller ; Howard Frank Mosher ; Alice Notley ; Anne Rivers Siddons ; Lee Siegel ; Genevieve Taggard ; Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Supplement 23. Sholem Asch ; Peter Balakian ; Pinckney Benedict ; Barbara Crooker ; Stuart Dybek ; Zee Edgell ; Frederick Exley ; Rachel Hadas ; Jane Hirshfield ; Maurice Kenny ; Meridel Le Sueur ; George Lippard ; Cherrie Moraga ; Frank O'Haa ; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft ; Penelope Scambly Schott ; Betty Smith ; Elizabeth Strout ; Jean Thompson.

Supplement 24. Pearl Abraham ; Gertrude Atherton ; Ted Berrigan ; Kay Boyle ; William Ellery Channing ; Junot Diaz ; Andre Dubus III ; Christopher Durang ; Jeffrey Eugenides ; David Ferry ; Tess Gallagher ; Gayl Jones ; Miranda July ; Leonard Kriegel ; Ander Monson ; Mari Sandoz ; Nicky Silver ; Hunter S. Thompson.

Supplement 25. Alison Bechdel ; Maxwell Bodenheim ; Hannah Webster Foster ; Francisco Goldman ; Lev Grossman ; Mark Helprin ; William Inge ; H.P. Lovecraft ; Manuel Muñoz ; Stewart O'Nan ; Susan Orlean ; Sara Paretsky ; Mary Roberts Rinehart ; Joshua Slocum ; A.E. Stallings ; Jones Very ; Herman Wouk ; Zitkala-S̆a.

Supplement 26. Raymond Andrews ; Nathan Asch ; Henry Beston ; Eula Biss ; Peter Davison ; Deganawida the Peacemaker ; Eric Gansworth ; Allegra Goodman ; Alfred Hayes ; David Huddle ; Helene Johnson ; William Kittredge ; James McBride ; Bich Minh Nguyen ; George Oppen ; John Kennedy Toole ; Katherine Vaz ; Carolyn Wells

v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot.

v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carsons McCullers.

v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana.

v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright.

Supplement[s] : 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier.

1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie.

2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry.

2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winter.

3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy.

3, pt. 2. Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and Cummulative index to volumes 1-4

Supplements 1,2 and 3

Supplement 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal

Suppl. 5. Russell Banks

Charles Wright.