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America's  Authors
Page Three

on Page One-A:  Anthologies & Literary History  •  on Page One-B:  Early American Authors

on Page Two:  Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M

here on Page Three:  Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z  •  The Beats

on Page Four:  Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L

on Page Five:  Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z

on Page Six:  XX-XXIst Century Authors

Ethnic-American Authors Page

New Mexico Authors Page

Authors of Britain Pages • Authors of France Page

American Poets Pages including The Beats

American Literature of The XIXth Century
American Literature of The XXth Century

Early  XXth  Century
American  Authors

Authors A thru M {on Page 2}  •  Authors N thru Z {just below}

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Ogden Nash [1902-71]
browse books • movie credits at IMDb • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

	"The Best of Ogden Nash: 450 Favorite Poems From America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2007] Edited by {his daughters} Linell Nash Smith & Isabel Nash Eberstadt Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $19.11
	"Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2005] by Douglas M. Parker Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5½ pb [4/2007] for $12.89 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $20.90
	"The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash" [2000] by David Stuart Madison Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2000] for $18.96

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John O'Hara [1905-70]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

	"John O'Hara's Hollywood, 1932-1974" [22 stories 2006] by John O'Hara, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli Da Capo Press / Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/2007] for $13.46
	"The Big Laugh" [1962] by John O'Hara Not O'Hara's best, but still O'Hara. Blindly-ambitious actor Hubie Ward lies, cheats, and seduces his way to the big-time in Hollywood. Ecco 8¾x5½ pb [10/97] for $16.00

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
playwright Eugene O'Neill  [1888-1953] Page
top of page • short profile • primary works • other works • motion pictures, 1923-92
television, 1936-96 • works about Eugene O'Neill • family & friends • links

O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1913–1920 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $29.20 includes The Glencairn Cycle [4 one-act plays; 1913-17], "Beyond The Horizon" [1918], "Anna Christie" [1920], "The Emperor Jones" [1920] and 22 other plays O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1920–1931 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $26.40 includes "The Hairy Ape" [1921], "Marco Millions" [1923-25], "Desire Under The Elms" [1924], "The Great God Brown" [1925], "Strange Interlude" [1928], "Mourning Becomes Electra" [1931] and 7 other plays O'Neill: Complete Plays, 1932–1943 [1988] Edited by Travis Bogard Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/88] for $23.10 includes plays "Ah, Wilderness!" [1932], "Days Without End" [1932-33], "More Stately Mansions" [1935-41], "A Touch of The Poet" [1935-42], "The Iceman Cometh" [1939], "Long Day's Journey Into Night" [1939-41], "Hughie" [1941-42], "A Moon For The Misbegotten" [1943], and the story "Tomorrow" [1917]

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writer-director Clifford Odets [1906-63]
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on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s

Clifford Odets papers at Indiana University

"Clifford Odets: American Playwright - The Years From 1906-1940" [2002] by Margaret Brenman-Gibson {the author died before completing the second volume} Applause Books 9x6½ pb [1/2002] for $15.56

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Dorothy Parker [1893-1967] Page
top of page • short profile • primary works • movies, plays, other media
The Algonquin Round Table • works about Dorothy Parker • family & friends • links

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S.J. Perelman [1904-79]
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Katherine Anne Porter [1890-1980]
known for her short stories; 1962 novel "Ship of Fools" was a bestseller; awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1966
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

September 1944 review of "Leaning Tower" by critic Edmund Wilson
read article online at New Yorker Magazine

"Flowering Judas" eight short stories [Harcourt, Brace 1930
"Flowering Judas and Other Stories" with four additional stories [Harcourt, Brace 1935]
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" three novellas [Harcourt, Brace 1939]
"Old Mortality", "Noon Wine" (radio 1948, American TV 1966 & 1985), and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" (American radio 1950, British TV 1964)
"The Leaning Tower and Other Stories" nine short stories [Harcourt, Brace: 1944]
"The Days Before" [Harcourt, Brace 1952] book reviews, critical essays, memoirs, etc.
"The Old Order: Stories of the South" ten short stories [Harcourt, Brace 1955]
previously published short stories, all of which take place in the American South
"The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter" [Harcourt, Brace: 1964)
all twenty-six of Porter's previously published short stories
"Ship of Fools" novel [Little, Brown, & Co. 1962] - filmed in 1965
"The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter" [Delacorte: 1970]

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Dawn Powell [1896-1965]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

article on Dawn Powell in September 2001 Atlantic Monthly

"Dawn Powell: A Biography" [1998] by Tim Page Owl Books 9x6 pb [10/99] out of print/used Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used

Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930-1942 [2001] Edited by Tim Page Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60 includes "Dance Night" [1930], "Come Back To Sorrento" [1932], "Turn, Magic Wheel" [1936], "Angels On Toast" [1940] and "A Time To Be Born" [1942] Dawn Powell: Novels, 1944-1962 [2001] Edited by Tim Page Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.64 includes "My Home Is Far Away" autobiographical novel [1944], "The Locusts Have No King" [1948], "The Wicked Pavilion" [1954] and "The Golden Spur" [1962] Library of America's "Dawn Powell: Comic Genius" pages

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
journalist Ernie Pyle [1900-45] Page

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poet E.A. {Edwin Arlington} Robinson [1869-1935]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Damon Runyon [1884-1946] Page
top of page • short profile • primary fiction works • other works • movies & TV •
plays, other media • works about Damon Runyon • family & friends • links

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poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems [2006] Edited by Paul Berman American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
William Saroyan [1908-81] Page
top of page • short profile • short stories • other fiction • stageplays • other works
works about William Saroyan • family & friends • links

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Delmore Schwartz [1913-66]
browse books • Wikipedia

Literary Encyclopedia's Delmore Schwartz page

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Irving Shulman [1913-95]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page
top of page • short profile • primary fiction • other fiction • Lanny Budd series • non-fiction • stageplays
movies & TV, other media • Kindle Editions • works about Upton Sinclair • family & friends • links

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Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-71]
browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

1978 Nobel Prize in Literature
PBS special

"Isaac B. Singer: A Life" [1980] by Florence Noiville, translated by Catherine Temerson FS&G 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.64

Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 1 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $25.55 includes 54 stories: 'Gimpel The Fool' to 'The Letter Writer' Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 2 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60 includes 65 stories: 'A Friend of Kafka' to 'Passions' Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 3 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60 includes 80+ stories: 'One Night In Brazil' to 'The Death of Methuselah' Singer: An Album [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5 pb [7/2004] for $11.01 Library of America's Singer Centennial Exhibit

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
humorist H. Allen Smith [1907-76] Page
top of page • short profile • primary works • secondary works • movies, TV, other media
works about H. Allen Smith • family & friends • links

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Lillian (Eugenia) Smith [1897-1966] of Clayton, Georgia
a talented & courageous Southern writer who fought Jim Crow segregation & other offenses from the 1930s
browse books • Wikipedia

"Strange Fruit" [1944 novel] by Lillian Smith Title inspired by Billy Holiday's 1939 hit record. One hot Georgia August, a rebel child returns from World War I and declares his love for a local girl; but he is white and she is black – and she is pregnant with his child. Harvest Books pb [7/92] for $9.89 Signet/NAL mass pb [3/48] out of print/used Buccaneer Books hardcover [12/94] out of print/used Reynal & Hichock hardcover [1944] out of print/used

One Hour [1959 novel] by Lillian Smith An early fictional attack on McCarthyism: "A child's shocking accusation brings tragic consequences to a brilliant scientist, his wife, and a town" Univ NC Press 8x5¼ pb [9/94] out of print/many used Univ NC Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/94] out of print/used Harcourt, Brace hardcover[1959] out of print/used

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Thorne Smith [1892-1934]

"A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith" [2010] by Anthony Slide New York writer Thorne Smith is most famous for the 'Topper' novels and films, as well as several other filmed novels involving witches or ghosts BearManor Media 8¾x6 pb [3/2010] for $19.95

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expatriate Gertrude Stein [1874-1946]
browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

'Tender Buttons' Gertrude Stein fansite
EC's Gertrude Stein pages
Gertrude Stein pages at gURL.com

	Stein: Writings, 1903-1932 [1998] Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/98] for $29.20 includes posthumous novel "Q.E.D." [from 1903], "Three Lives" [3 novellas 1909], libretto "Four Saints In Three Acts" [1929], "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" [1933], and other short works Stein: Writings, 1932-1946 [1998] Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson Library of America 8x5 hardcover [3/98] for $29.20 includes "Lectures In America" [1934], "The Geographical History of America" [1936], libretto "Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights" [1938], children's book "The World Is Round" [1938], "Brewsie and Willie" [1946] and libretto "The Mother of Us All" [1949]
	"Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice" [2007] by Janet Malcolm Yale Univ Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.50 publisher's book page
	"Twilight of The Belle Epoque (1900-1918): The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through The Great War" [2014] by Mary McAuliffe, PhD • personalities not in the book's title include Matisse, Debussy, Ravel, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Andrι Citroλn, Paul Poiret, and Franηois Coty Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [3/2014] for $9.99 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9x6 pb [3/2017] for $14.89 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2014] for $21.27
	"When Paris Sizzled (1918-1928): The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends" [2016] by Mary McAuliffe, PhD personalities not in the book's title include Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Proust, Andrι Citroλn, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and 'the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse' Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [9/2016] for $15.65 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2016] for $20.36

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
John Steinbeck [1902-68] Page
top of page • short profile • primary works • other works • plays, movies & other media
works about John Steinbeck • friends & family • links

John Steinbeck Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website

"The Grapes of Wrath" 1940 Movie Page at Magic Lantern

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poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
browse books • Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Wallace-Stevens/dp/0679726691/
"The Man With The Blue Guitar" [1937]

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Burton E. Stevenson [1872–1962]
browse books at Amazon: incomplete Burton E. Stevenson Store • incomplete Burton Egbert Stevenson Store
IMDb listing, 1916-41 • Wikipedia

"American Men of Mind" [June 1910] by Burton E. Stevenson subject individuals include: biologist & geologist Louis Agassiz [1807-73], naturalist John James Audubon [1785-1851], Lyman Beecher [1775-1863] & son Henry Ward Beecher [1813-87], stage actors Junius Brutus Booth [1796-1852] & son Edwin Booth [1833-93], steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie [1835–1919], Harvard President Charles William Eliot [1834-1926], Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82], inventor Robert Fulton [1765-1815], banker Stephen Girard [1750-1831], robber baron Jay Gould [1836-92], Horace Greeley [1811-72], author Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64], author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-82], inventor Samuel F.B. Morse [1791-1872], painter Gilbert Stuart [1755-1828], merchant John Wanamaker [1838-1922], and inventor Eli Whitney [1765-1825] 412-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} 378-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2013] for 99’ 416-page Univ Michigan Library 7x5 facsimile 1913 edition pb [recent] for $28.99 178-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2016] for $5.97 WARNING! on page count 280-page Pinnacle Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2017] for $25.95 WARNING! on page count 382-page Doubleday Guide Series hardcover [1913] long out of print/used 1913 edition available as free online etext at Internet Archive

	"The Mystery of The Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story" [1911] by Burton E. Stevenson Someone is murdered by a piece of furniture, and then another, and another . . . But how? And why? Kindle Edition from Classic Detective [2/2018] for 99’ Echo Library 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $4.18 "The Mystery of The Boule Cabinet and Other Mysteries" by Burton E. Stevenson Kindle Edition from Halcyon Press [5/2011] for $1.99
	"Burton E. Stevenson: Selected Works, Volume 1 - Nine Books with Illustrations" [2015] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2015] for $2.99 {sic} nine books of fiction and verse, 1906-1918 with more than 65 illustrations added in this edition: "Affairs of State" [1906]; "American Men of Action" [1909]; "American Men of Mind" [1913]; "The Charm of Ireland" [1914]; "The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue" [1913]; "The Girl From Alsace: A Romance of The Great War" [1915] original title "Little Comrade"; "The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story" [1920]; "The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1" [1918]; and "The Home Book of Verse, Volume 2" [1918]
	"Burton E. Stevenson: Selected Works, Volume 2 - Six Books" [2015] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2015] for $2.99 {sic} six books of fiction and verse, 1904-1923: "The Holladay Case: A Tale" [1904]; "The Home Book of Verse, Volume 3" [1923]; "The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4" [1923]; "The Mystery of The Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story" [1911]; "A Soldier of Virginia" [1901]; and "That Affair At Elizabeth" [1907]
	"Burton Egbert Stevenson: Best Novels" [2017] contains three novels: "The Young Train Dispatcher" [1907], "The Young Train Master" [1909], and "The Mystery of The Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story" [1911] CreateSpace 10x7 pb [11/2017] for $19.00

"Boys' Story of The Railroad" juvenile novels [1905-1912]
The great P. & O. Railroad stretches from the Atlantic seaboard on the east to the Mississippi River on the west, comprising, all told, some four thousand miles of track.
Each book contains six or seven glossy illustrations done by either L.J. Bridgman, A.P. Button, or John Goss.

	"The Young Section Hand" [1905] by Burton E. Stevenson [1872-1962], Illustrated by L.J. Bridgman [1857-1931] L.C. Page & Co. hardcover [1905] long out of print/scarce
	"The Young Train Dispatcher" [1907] by Burton E. Stevenson [1872-1962] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2017] for $2.99 indep 11x8½ pb [10/2017] for $6.30 L.C. Page & Co. hardcover [1907] long out of print/scarce
	"The Young Train Master" [1909] by Burton E. Stevenson [1872-1962] Kindle Edition from eInk Solutions [11/2017] for 99’ CreateSpace 9x6 pb [11/2017] for $12.79 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [12/2017] for $12.99 L.C. Page & Co. hardcover [1909] long out of print/scarce
	"The Young Apprentice" [1912] by Burton E. Stevenson [1872-1962], Illustrated by L.J. Bridgman [1857-1931] long out of print/scarce - no entry found at Amazon (2018) many more such on Spirit of America Bookstore's Railroads in Fiction - Books For Young Railfans Page

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author & publisher Edward L. Stratemeyer [1862-1930]
His Stratemeyer Syndicate [1897-1987] company published the 'Bobbsey Twins', 'Hardy Boys', 'Nancy Drew Mysteries',
'Rover Boys', 'Tom Swift' and other juvenile books series totaling thousands of book titles.

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Jesse Stuart [1906-84] of Kentucky
browse books • Wikipedia

Sue's Jesse Stuart fansite
Jesse Stuart Foundation [est. 1979]
Jesse Stuart State Nature Preserve in Greenup County, KY

"Jesse: The Biography of An American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart" [1984] by H. Edward Richardson McGraw-Hill hardcover [1/84] out of print/used "A Jesse Stuart Reader: Stories & Poems" [McGraw-Hill 1963] Edited by Jesse Stuart Jesse Stuart Foundation 8½x5½ pb with study guide [9/2003] for $10.20 Jesse Stuart Foundation 9x6 hardcover [1/93] for $22.00

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Jim Thompson [1906-77] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
James Thurber [1894-1961] Page

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Jim Tully [1886-1947]
browse books • Wikipedia

KS's Jim Tully [1886-1947] fansite

http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Tully-American-Hollywood-Brawler/dp/1606350765/

"Circus Parade" [1927] by Jim Tully, Illustrated by William Gropper "A thrilling, violent story of circus life - Complete & Unabridged" Essentially an autobiographical novel of Tully's several years traveling with the rough crew of a circus (before becoming a reporter in Hollywood) Black Squirrel Books 8x5½ pb [6/2009] for $17.96 with Foreword by Harvey Pekar Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [4/2005] for $33.40 Albert & Charles Boni hardcover [1927] out of print/used

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Nathanael West [1903-40]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Miss Lonelyhearts" [1933]
"Once read, this book is never forgotten." ~~ Fay Weldon

	West: Novels and Other Writings [1997] Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/97] out of print/used includes novels "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" [1931], "Miss Lonelyhearts" [1933], "A Cool Million" [1934] & "The Day of The Locust" [1939], plus stories, film scripts & correspondence
	"The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) • book entry at Wikipedia NAL mass pb [9/83] out of print/90+ used IndoEuropean Publng 9x6 pb [1/2011] for $14.39 Buccaneer 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/97] for $15.80 Amereon 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/83] for $20.85
	"The Day of The Locust" feature film [Paramount May 1975] Directed by John Schlesinger; screenplay by Waldo Salt; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $18.95 Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Edith Wharton [1862-1937] Page

Edith Wharton: Novels [1986] Edited by R.W.B. Lewis Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [5/86] for $26.40 includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "The Reef" [1912], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920] Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings [1990] Edited by Cynthia Griffin Wolff Library of America hardcover [4/90] for $29.25 includes "Madame de Treymes" [1907], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "Summer" [1917], "Old New York: Four Novellas" [1924], "The Mother's Recompense" [1925], and "A Backward Glance" [1934] Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 [2001] Edited by Maureen Howard Library of America 8&5¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $25.55 includes "The Touchstone" [1900], "Sanctuary", "The Eyes" and 35 other stories Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 [2001] Edited by Maureen Howard Library of America hardcover [2/2001] for $25.55 includes "Xingu" [1916], "The Marne", "A Bottle of Perrier", "All Souls", "Roman Fever" [1934] and 24 other stories Edith Wharton: Selected Poems [2005] Edited by Louis Auchincloss American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $15.60

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957] Page

"Little House Nine-Book Sets by Laura Ingalls Wilder" [ages 7-12] {new} Illustrations by Garth Williams HarperTrophy 8x5¼x6¾W pb box set [5/94] for $35.58 HarperCollins 8x5¼x4¼W pb box set [10/2004] for $33.28 Scholastic Inc. 10½x7½ not-in-box pb set [2011] out of print/used

"Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House Books" [2012] Volume 1 Edited by Caroline Fraser Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2012] for $26.77 includes "Little House In The Big Woods" [1932], "Farmer Boy" [1933], "Little House On The Prairie" [1935], and "On The Banks of Plum Creek" [1937] Volume 2 Edited by Caroline Fraser Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2012] for $27.88 includes "By The Shores of Silver Lake" [1939], "The Long Winter" [1940], "Little Town On The Prairie" [1941], "These Happy Golden Years" [1943], and "The First Four Years" [1971] "The Little House Books Collection" [2012] Library of America slipcover 8½x5½ hardcover set [8/2012] 2 volumes for $50.03

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Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
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The Thornton Wilder Society

"Thornton Wilder: A Life" [10/2012] by Penelope Niven
http://www.amazon.com/Thornton-Wilder-Life-Penelope-Niven/dp/0060831367/

"The Eighth Day: A Novel" [1967 bestseller] by Thornton Wilder Won the National Book Award, both murder mystery and philosophical story. Two families in a mining town in southern Illinois are blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other; the accused killer miraculously escapes on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom alters the fate of both men's wives and children. Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2007] for $11.48 Amereon Ltd. 9x6¼ hardcover [12/98] out of print/used Harper & Row 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1967] out of print/many, many used

Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings On Theater [2007] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $34.20 includes Pulitzer-winning "Our Town" [1938], Pulitzer-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" [1942], "The Matchmaker" [1954], "Shadow of A Doubt" [1942 screenplay], 18 other full-length plays, six one-act plays, 14 uncollected plays, and 14 essays on theater Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926–1948 [2009] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $23.10 includes "The Cabala" [1926], Pulitzer-winning "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1927], "The Woman of Andros" [1930], "Heaven’s My Destination" [1935], "The Ides of March" [1948], plus 6 stories & 4 essays

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Tennessee Williams [1911-83] Page

Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1937–1955 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40 includes "Spring Storm" [1937], "Not About Nightingales" [1938], "The Glass Menagerie" [1944], "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947], "Summer and Smoke" [1948], "The Rose Tattoo" [1951], "Camino Real" [1953], Pulitzer Prize–winning "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" [1955] & 12 other plays Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1957–1980 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40 includes "Orpheus Descending" [1957], "Suddenly, Last Summer" [1958], "Sweet Bird of Youth" [1959], "Period of Adjustment" [1960], "The Night of The Iguana" [1961], "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" [1963], "The Mutilated" [1966], "Kingdom of Earth" [1968], "Small Craft Warnings" [1972], "Out Cry" [1973], "Vieux Carrι" [1977] & "A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur" [1979]

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Thomas Wolfe [1900-38] Page

"The Thomas Wolfe Reader" [1962] "an abundant & widely-representative treasury of his finest work, selected, with an introduction and notes by C. Hugh Holman" Charles Scribner's Sons 8½x6 hardcover [1962] out of print/many used Charles Scribner's Sons 8½x5½ hardcover [1962] out of print/many used

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
pulp writer Jack Woodford [1894-1971] Page

"Why Write A Novel?" [1943] by Jack Woodford later self-published as "How To Write and Sell A Novel" "Woodford knows the writing game and what he says about it is very much to the point." — cover blurb by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $21.24 HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $32.64 HTWSN: Woodford Press hardcover [1948] out of print/used WWAN?: Murray & Gee hardcover [1943] out of print/used

"Jack Woodford On Writing" [1980] Compiled, selected & edited by Jess E. Stewart includes Introductory Notes, Writer's Cramp (complete), Trial and Error (excerpts), How To Write and Sell A Novel (excerpts), How To Write For Money (excerpts), Plotting (excerpts), and 'Citizen Arrest' (short story) Woodford Memorial Editions pb [4/81] out of print/used

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Harold Bell Wright [1872-1944]
browse books • IMDb listing [1917-64] • Wikipedia

http://www.gchudleigh.com/

"The Shepherd of The Hills" novel [Book Supply Company, 1907]
"The Winning of Barbara Worth" novel [Book Supply Company, 1911]
"The Shepherd of The Hills" silent film [1919]
"The Winning of Barbara Worth" silent film [1926] starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bαnky & Gary Cooper
"God and The Groceryman" novel [D. Appleton & Co., 1927]
"The Shepherd of The Hills" feature film [1928]
"Long Ago Told: Legends of The Papago Indians" [D. Appleton & Co., 1929]
"The Shepherd of The Hills" feature film [1941] starring John Wayne

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The  Beats

Not all of the Beat Movement figures were poets, but most were/are. Entries here for Charles Bukowski, Wm. S. Burroughs,
Gregory Corso, Diane DiPrima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Kenneth Patchen,
Gary Snyder, and Anne Waldman were moved to Spirit of America Bookstore's new American Poets Pages in early 2013,
while the several authors just below were not.

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Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore's
Ken Kesey [1935-2001] Page

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Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore's
Dr. Timothy Leary [1920-96] Page

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Henry Miller [1891-1980]
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official Henry Miller website
Henry Miller bio at Monterey County [CA] Historical Society
SP's Henry Miller fansite

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Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore's
Allan Watts [1915-73] Page

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