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![Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]](images/SAAbradbury.jpg)
![F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]](images/SAAfitzgerald.jpg)
![Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]](images/SAAhemingway.jpg)
![playwright Arthur Miller [1915-2005] in 1967](images/SAAmiller.jpg)
on Page One-A: Anthologies & Literary History on Page One-B: Early American Authors
on Page Two: Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z
here on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
on Spirit of America's main page: XXIst Century Authors
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
Latter XXth Century
American Authors
A thru L {just below} M thru Z {on Page 5}
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eco-activist Edward Abbey [1927-89] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
Edward Abbey Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Isaac Asimov [1920-92]
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Isaac Asimov Mysteries Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Isaac Asimov Robot Mysteries Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
official Isaac Asimov website
ES's Isaac Asimov fansite
JHJ's Isaac Asimov fansite
Isaac Asimov entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Louis Auchincloss [1917-2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Auchincloss
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James Baldwin [1924-87]
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Random House/Vintage James Baldwin pages
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James Baldwin reads from "Another Country" [audio 15:32] on YouTube
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Baldwin: Collected Essays [1998] Edited by Toni Morrison
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [2/98] for $23.10 includes essays from "Notes of A Native Son" [1955], "Nobody Knows My Name" [1961], "The Fire Next Time" [1963], "No Name In The Street" [1972] & "The Devil Finds Work" [1976], plus 36 more Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories [1998] Edited by Toni Morrison Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [2/98] for $23.10 includes novels "Go Tell It On The Mountain" [1953], "Giovanni's Room" [1956] & "Another Country" [1962], and stories from "Going To Meet The Man" [1965] |
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Ann Bannon [b. 1932]
revered as the author of the five 'Beebo Brinker Chronicles' novels [1957-62]
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Saul Bellow [1915-2005]
"There's as much perception in [Bellow's] prose per square inch as there is thought in Henry James."
— William Deresiewicz
"[Bellow] has always understood that even if you are on your way from Becoming to Being,
you still have to catch the train at Randolph Street." — Allan Bloom
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1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
Saul Bellow Society & Journal [est. 1981]
Saul Bellow reads from "Henderson The Rain King" [video 30:02] on YouTube
 | Bellow: Novels, 19441953 [2003] Edited by James Wood
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2003] for $23.10 includes "Dangling Man" [1944], "The Victim" [1947] & "The Adventures of Augie March" [1953] Bellow: Novels, 19561964 [2007] Edited by James Wood Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $23.10 includes "Seize The Day" [1956], "Henderson The Rain King" [1959] & "Herzog" [1964] |
"Bellow: Novels, 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December" (Library of America) [2010]
http://www.amazon.com/Bellow-1970-1982-Sammlers-Humboldts-December/dp/1598530798/
"The Adventures of Augie March" [1953]
"Henderson The Rain King" [1959]
"Herzog" [1964]
"Mr. Sammler's Planet" [1970]
"Humboldt's Gift' [1975] {MMastroiani tried to buy movie rights} won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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playwright & critic Eric Bentley [b. 1916]
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2016 bio at American Theatre website
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"A Century of Hero Worship" [1944]
 | "The Playwright As Thinker: A Study of Drama In Modern Times - Wagner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht" [1946] by Eric Bentley
Univ Minnesota Press 4th edition 8x5½ pb [9/2010] for $20.00 Univ Minnesota Press 4th edition pb [9/2010] out of print/used Harcourt Notations 7¾x5 pb [10/67] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Bentley-Author-Donald-Introduction/dp/B003MAFVDG/
"In Search of Theater" [1953]
"What Is Theatre?, 1944-1967" [1956]
http://www.amazon.com/What-Theatre-Incorporating-Dramatic-1944-1967/dp/0809096951/
"The Life of The Drama" [1964]
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Drama-Eric-Bentley/dp/1557831106/
"A Time To Live & A Time To Die" stageplay [1967] published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
 | "Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before The House Committee On Un-American Activities, 1938-1968" [orig 1971] Selected & edited by Eric Bentley, Introduction by Frank Rich Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] out of print/used Viking hardcover [11/71] out of print/used |
 | "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?: The Investigation of Show Business By The Un-American Activities Committee, 1947-1958" [1972] stageplay by Eric Bentley
Harper & Row pb [1972] out of print/used L.A. Theatre Works dramatic performance audio CD [1998] for $19.72 Broadway credits (1979) at IBDb "Rallying Cries: 3 Plays by Eric Bentley" [2009] contains "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" [1972], "The Recantation of Galileo Galilei" [1972] and "From The Memoirs of Pontius Pilate" [1976] Northwestern Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2009] for $14.82 |
"Theater of War: Comments On 32 Occasions" [1972]
http://www.amazon.com/THEATRE-WAR-COMMENTS-32-OCCASIONS/dp/B00507KMRY/
"Brecht Commentaries" [1981]
"Monstrous Martyrdoms" [1985] containing stageplays "H For Hamlet", "German Requiem", and "Lord Alfred's Lover" [1979]
http://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Martyrdoms-Three-Bentley-2004-01-01/dp/B01FEPGVSA/
http://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Martyrdoms-Alfreds-Hamlet-Requiem/dp/B001UDL9N8/
"Thinking About The Playwright" [1987]
"Round One" stageplay [12/2008] adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde"
http://www.amazon.com/Round-One-Arthur-Schnitzler/dp/0881454095/
"Round Two" stageplay [8/2008] gay-male adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde"
http://www.amazon.com/Round-Two-Eric-Bentley/dp/0881453641/
"The Sternheim Trilogy" [2012] containing stageplays "The Underpants", "The Snob", and "1913"
http://www.amazon.com/Sternheim-Trilogy-Carl/dp/0881455458/
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children's authors Stan & Jan Berenstain
Stanley 'Stan' Berenstain [1923-2005]: credits at IMDb
Janice 'Jan' Grant Berenstain [1923-2012]: credits at IMDb
official website
team entry at Wikipedia
son/illustrator Mike Berenstain
cartoon feature "It's All In The Family" in McCall's Magazine, 1956-89
 | The Berenstain Bears books [est. 1962] from Random House official website Wikipedia browse Berenstain bookstore at Amazon search for Berenstain Bears on DVD at Amazon |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
poet & novelist Richard Brautigan [1935-84] Page
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Larry Brown [1951-2004]
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Ole Miss bio page
2002 docu film
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sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler [1947-2006]
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 | "Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)" [2016] by Gerry Canavan Kindle Edition from Univ Illinois Press [11/2016] for $11.99 Univ Illinois Press 9x6 pb [11/2016] for $22.00 Univ Illinois Press hardcover [11/2016] for $95.00 {sic} |
Joseph Campbell [1904-87] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
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Truman Capote [1924-84]
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GB's Truman Capote fansite
Truman Capote: His Life & Work {New York Times Sponsored Archive}
Truman Capote reads from "Breakfast At Tiffanys" [April 1963 audio 16:59] on YouTube
 | "Capote" bio-film [United Artists Sept 2005] Directed by Bennett Miller; written by Dan Futterman, based on Gerald Clarke's biography; starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper & Bob Balaban video not yet available; full credits from IMDb official moviesite bio by Gerald Clarke [S&S 1988] Carroll & Graf 9x6 pb [11/2005] for $12.21 |
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Don Carpenter [1931-95]
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Chris's Don Carpenter fansite
Don Carpenter Papers at Online Archive of California
 | "The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan: A Novel" [1975] by Don Carpenter E.P. Dutton hardcover [1975] out of print/used |
 | "A Couple of Comedians: A Novel" [1979] by Don Carpenter
A comedian nearly breaks down from the pressures at the end of filming a movie, but is rescued when he and his partner get a gig in Las Vegas, Nevada. North Point Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/88] out of print/used S&S 8½x5½ hardcover [1/79] out of print/used |
 | "Turnaround: A Novel" [1981] by Don Carpenter
The hard-boiled (but not bitter) tale of a struggling screenwriter living in a seedy motel off the Sunset Strip, against the background of three generations of a Hollywood dynasty. S&S 8¾x6¼ hardcover [6/81] out of print/used |
Raymond Carver [1938-88] of Oregon
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http://www.amazon.com/Short-Cuts-Collection-Andie-MacDowell/dp/B000305ZXO/
http://www.amazon.com/Raymond-Carver-Collected-Stories-Library/dp/1598530461/
new Carver bio by Carol Sklenicka
Library of America
 | "Cathedral: Stories" [12 stories; 1983] by Raymond Carver [1938-88] The twelve stories are: the title story, "A Small, Good Thing", "The Bridle", "Careful", "Chef's House", "The Compartment", "Feathers", "Fever", "Preservation", "The Train", "Vitamins", and "Where I'm Calling From" Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [5/2015] for $11.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [6/89] for $13.18 Vintage 9x6 pb [8/84] out of print/50+ used The Harvill Press 9x6½ hardcover [1984] out of print/used |
"Birdman" [in production for 2014? release]
Announced 3/2013: Alejando Gonzalez Innaritus next film will be a dark comedy starring Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis & Emma Stone; Keaton plays a washed-up movie star struggling to restart his career by mounting a stageplay based on a Raymond Carver story and confronted with problems that include a daughter just out of rehab, the egotistical male lead, and the conniving producer
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Paddy Chayefsky [1923-81]
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children's author Beverly Cleary [b. 1916] Page
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Evan S. Connell [b. 1924]
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"Mrs. Bridge" [1958 novel]
"The Patriot" [1960 novel]
"Mr. Bridge" (1969 novel]
bestseller "Son of The Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn" [1985] ISBN 0883940884)
"Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" movie [Merchant-Ivory 1990] starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
"Son of The Morning Star" NBC-TV mini-series [1991]
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Pat Conroy
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investigative journalist Fred J. Cook [1911-2003]
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"The Warfare State" [Macmillan 1962]
The F.B.I. Nobody Knows [Macmillan 1964]
The Secret Rulers: Criminal Syndicates and How They Control The U.S. Underworld [Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1966]
The Plot Against The Patient [Prentice-Hall 1967]
The Great Energy Scam: Private Billions vs. Public Good [Macmillan 1982]
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Norman Corwin [1910-2011]
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"13 For Corwin: A Paean of Praise for Norman Corwin" [1993] Edited by Ray Bradbury Barricade pb [3/93] for $7.95 |
 | "Corwin" TV documentary [indep June 1996] Written & directed by Les Guthman CustomFlix color DVD [8/2006] for $24.95 |
 | "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin" [indep Aug 2005] 40-minute documentary film about Norman Corwin's radio braodcast on VE-Day of World War II (8 May 1945); Co-produced by Corinne Marrinan, co-produced & directed by Eric Simonson; won Oscar for Best Documentary Short Direct Cinema Ltd. color DVD [12/2008] for $29.95 full credits at IMDb |
Spencer Crump [1919?-??]
specialized in books about Western USA railroads & trolley lines, 1970-98
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"The Stylebook For Newswriting" [1979]
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Dr. Vine Deloria, Jr. [1933-2005]: browse books
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Philip K. Dick [1928-82] Page
 | "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s" [2007] Edited by Jonathan Lethem Library of America 8x5 hardcover [5/2007] for $23.10 includes "The Man In The High Castle" [1962], "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" [1965], "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1968], and "Ubik" [1969] which was listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) |
 | "Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of The 1960s & 70s" [2008] Edited by Jonathan Lethem Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2008] for $26.40 includes "Martian Time-Slip" [1964]; "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After The Bomb" [1965]; "Now Wait For Last Year" [1966]; "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [1974]; and "A Scanner Darkly" [1977] |
![Philip K. Dick Festival [Sept 2012 = #1] in San Francisco, California](images/PKDickFestival.jpg)
"Blade Runner" 1982 Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
browse all 160+ Kindle titles at Amazon's Philip K. Dick Kindle Store
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comedy writer Jack Douglas [1908-89]
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Stanley Elkin [1930-1995]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Elkin
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Ralph Ellison [1913-94]
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AALBC's Ralph Ellison webpage
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"Invisible Man" [1952] by Ralph Ellison; won the National Book Award in 1953 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/95] for $10.17 Modern Library 7¼x5 hardcover [6/94] for $13.57 |
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John Fante [1909-83] Page
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Philip Josι Farmer [1918-2009]
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 | "Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (His Outrageous & Magnificent Life)" [Doubleday 1972] by Philip Josι Farmer Farmers 1972 volume separates the 'fact' from the 'fiction' in Edgar Rice Burroughs's tales of Tarzan and adds to the legend by tracing Tarzans family tree – which includes Sherlock & Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe & Bulldog Drummond – and reporting his later exploits as a group captain in the R.A.F. during World War II; the Bison edition includes the text of Farmer's 'interview' with Lord Greystoke. Bison Books 7¾x5½ pb [4/2006] for $13.57 Berkeley pb [7/81] out of print/used Popular Library pb [1/72] out of print/used |
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"The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel" [1999] by Philip Josι Farmer Announced late 1997 as "Tarzan's Greatest Secret"; a trio of white hunters kidnap Tarzan's mate, Jane, as bait for capturing the elusive Jungle Lord. As the sinister safari closes in, Tarzan's trail leads to a long-forgotten land whose dangers include the Crystal Tree of Time. Del Rey mass pb [6/99] out of print/used EconoClad hardcover [6/99] for $15.00 |
"Riverworld" TV series pilot [SciFi Channel 2003] /tt0310952/
"Riverworld" two-night TV mini-series [SyFy Channel 2010] /tt1419950/
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historian James Thomas Flexner [1908-2003]
won a Special Pulitzer Prize Citation, a National Book Award, and a Christopher's Award for his four-volume biography of Washington
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"America's Old Masters: First Artists of The New World" [Viking Press, 1939]
"A Short History of American Painting" [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1950]
"The Traitor and The Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre" [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1953]
"The Pocket History of American Painting" [Pocket Library, 1957]
"George Washington, The Forge of Experience, 17321775" [Little, Brown and Company, 1965]
"George Washington In The American Revolution, 17751783" [Little, Brown and Company, 1968]
"George Washington and The New Nation, 17831793" [Little, Brown and Company, 1970]
"George Washington, Anguish and Farewell, 17931799" [Little, Brown and Company, 1972]
"Washington: The Indispensable Man" [Little, Brown and Company, 1974]
"The Face of Liberty: Founders of The United States" [Clarkson N. Potter, 1975]
"The Young Hamilton: A Biography" [Little, Brown and Company, 1978]
"George Washington" TV mini-series
[MGMUA-TV/CBS-TV April 1984]
 | 8-hour 3-part mini-series about the early life of George Washington, thru victory in the Revolutionary War Co-produced & directed by Buzz Kulik; co-produced & co-written by Richard Fielder; co-written by Jon Boothe & James Thomas Flexner, based on Flexner's 1974 biography; narrated by Terrence Beasor; starring Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, David Dukes, Jaclyn Smith, Lloyd Bridges, Josι Ferrer, Hal Holbrook, Trevor Howard, Jeremy Kemp, Richard Kiley, Stephen Macht, James Mason, Rosemary Murphy, Clive Revill, Robert Stack, Anthony Zerbe, Leo Burmester, J. Kenneth Campbell, Philip Casnoff, Robert Schenkkan {as Alexander Hamilton}, Kevin Conroy, Peter Evans, Megan Gallagher, John Glover, Harry Groener, Patrick Horgan, John Horton, Scott Hylands, Barrie Ingham, Will Lyman, Tom Mason, William Prince
T.G.G. Direct remastered color DVD [8/2014] 3 disks for $14.79 M.G.M. Home Video color VHS [7/95] 3 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb mini-series entry at Wikipedia |
sequel "George Washington II: The Forging of A Nation" TV movie
[MGMUA-TV/CBS-TV April 1986]
 | 3-hour 10-minute TV movie sequel about the later life of George Washington, thru both terms as the first President of the United States Directed by William A. Graham; co-produced & written by Richard Fielder, based on the 1974 biography by James Thomas Flexner; starring Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, Jeffrey Jones {as Thomas Jefferson}, Richard Bekins {as Alexander Hamilton}, Penny Fuller, Marcia Cross, Guy Paul, Norman Snow, Lise Hilboldt, Robert Kelly, Haviland Morris, Daniel Davis, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Farnham Scott, Leo Burmester, Nicholas Kepros, Paul Collins, Richard Fancy, Clayton Prince, Erika Alexander, Timothy Landfield, Gregory Abels, Eve Gordon, Christopher Goutman
M.G.M. Home Video color VHS [9/98] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits at IMDb |
children's author Franklin Folsom [1907-95]
Folsom also wrote under the pseudonyms Benjamin Brewster, Chase Elwell, Michael Gorham, Lyman Hopkins, Horatio D. Jones, Troy Nesbit & Philip Stander;
he was a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from the University of Colorado; he wrote over 80 books, and also worked as a guide in the Rocky Mountains.
Franklin Folsom was active in labor politics during the 1930s & 1940s (a possible reason for his later use of pseudonyms). Folsom was executive
secretary of The League of American Writers for five of its seven years in existence; the League was openly backed by the American Communist Party.
Spirit of America Bookstore's Franklin Folsom [1907-95] Page 
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novelist William Gaddis [1922-98]
called "one of the dazzling virtuosi" by Saul Bellow
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VH's 'The Gaddis Annotations' fangroup site
Modern Word / Scriptorium 1999 article
"The Recognitions" [1955 first novel]
book entry at Wikipedia
"A Reader's Guide To William Gaddis's The Recognitions" [1982] by Steven Moore
"J.R." [1975 second novel] won the National Book Award for Fiction
book entry at Wikipedia
"Carpenter's Gothic" [1985]
book entry at Wikipedia
"A Frolic of His Own" [1994] won second National Book Award
book entry at Wikipedia
"Agapι Agape" [2002 novella] his final work
book entry at Wikipedia
"The Rush For Second Place: Essays & Occasional Writings" [2002]
collection of his previously published nonfiction
book entry at Wikipedia
"Swallow Hard" [1991 autobiographical novel] by his daughter Sarah Gaddis
http://www.amazon.com/Swallow-Hard-Sarah-Gaddis/dp/0689121067/
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William H. Gass [1924-2017]
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"Omensetter's Luck" [1966 novel]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omensetter%27s_Luck
"The Tunnel" [1995 novel]
William H. Gass's magnum opus; took 26 years to write and earned him the American Book Award of 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(novel)
"Middle C" [2013 novel]
started sometime after 1998, with a first excerpt appearing in 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_C_(novel)
 | "The William H. Gass Reader" [Knopf June 2018]  944 pages: more than fifty selections chosen by Gass himself from his essays, criticism, commentary, short stories, and novels Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [6/2018] for $15.99 Knopf 9¼x6¼ hardcover [DUE June 2018] for $40.00 |
Noel Bertram Gerson [1913-88]
Gerson wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards: "The Naked Maja"
and "55 Days At Peking"; his other nine pseudonyms were Anne Marie Burgess, Michael Burgess, Nicholas Gorham, Paul Lewis, Leon Phillips, Donald Clayton Porter,
Dana Fuller Ross, Philip Vail, and Carter A. Vaughan.
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biographies written by Noel Gerson
"Nathan Hale, Espionage Agent" [juv, 1960]
"Queen of Caprice: A Biography of Kristina of Sweden" [1962] as Paul Lewis
"Lady of France: A Biography of Gabrielle D'Estrees, Mistress of Henry The Great" [1963] as Paul Lewis
"The Twisted Saber: A Biographical Novel of Benedict Arnold" [1963] as Philip Vail
"Old Hickory: A Biographical Novel of Andrew Jackson" [1964]
"Kit Carson: Folk Hero and Man" [1964]
"Queen of The Plaza: A Biography of Adah Isaacs Menken" [1964] as Paul Lewis
"The Magnificent Adventure of Alexander Mackenzie" [1964] as Philip Vail
"The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson" [1965] as Philip Vail
"The Slender Reed: A Biographical Novel of James Knox Polk" [1965]
"Yankee Doodle Dandy: A Biographical Novel of John Hancock" [1965]
"Light-Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington's Great Cavalryman, General Henry Lee" [1966]
"The Great Rogue: A Biography of Captain John Smith" [1966] as Paul Lewis (reissued 1978 as "The Glorious Scoundrel
")
"Barbary General: The Life of William H. Eaton" [1968]
"Yankee Admiral: A Biography of David Dixon Porter" [1968] as Paul Lewis
"Sam Houston: A Biographical Novel" [1968]
"James Monroe: Hero of America Diplomacy" [juv, 1969]
"The Crusader: A Novel on The Life of Margaret Sanger" [1970]
"TR: A Biographical Novel About Theodore Roosevelt" [1970]
"Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry" [1971] (reissued 1972 as "Lillie Langtry: A Biography")
": A Tumultuous Life" [1971] (reissued 1975 as "Victor Hugo: A Biography")
"The Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Honore de Balzac" [1972]
"George Sand: A Biography of The First Modern, Liberated Woman" [1972]
"Daughter of Earth & Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" [1973]
"The Man Who Lost America: A Biography of Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne" [1973] as Paul Lewis
"The Grand Incendiary: A Biography of Samuel Adams" [1973] as Paul Lewis
"Peter Paul Rubens: A Biography of A Giant" [1973]
"First Lady of America: A Romanticized Biography of Pocahontas" [1973]
"The Double Lives of Francisco de Goya" [1973] as Samuel Edwards
"That Eaton Woman: In Defense of Peggy O'Neal Eaton" [1974]
"Rebel!: A Biography of Tom Paine" [1974] as Samuel Edwards
"The Turbulent Life of Aaron Burr: The Great American Rascal" [1974] as Philip Vail
"The Swamp Fox: Francis Marion" [1975]
"The Velvet Glove: A Life of Dolley Madison" [1976]
"Sad Swashbuckler: The Life of William Walker" [1976]
 | "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography" [1976] by Noel Bertram Gerson Kindle Edition from Endeavour Media [6/2015] for $3.99 Henry Holt & Co. pb [1976] out of print/used Henry Holt & Co. 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/76] out of print/90+ used more about this author on Spirit of America Bookstore's Harriet Beecher Stowe [1811-96] Page |
"Trelawny's World: A Biography of Edward John Trelawny" [1977]
"The Vidocq Dossier: The Story of The World's First Detective" [1977] as Samuel Edwards (aka "Vidocq: Biography of The Worlds First Detective")
"Statue In Search of A Pedestal: A Biography of The Marquis de Lafayette" [1986]
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Edward Gorey [1925-2000]
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Elephant House Edward Gorey Museum in Cape Cod, MA
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Winston Francis Groom, Jr. [1943-2020]
http://www.amazon.com/Winston-Groom/e/B000AP7VRA/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Groom
"As Summers Die" [1980]
"Only" [Simon & Schuster 1984] ISBN 978-0-671-52267-4
 | "Forrest Gump" bestseller novel [1986] by Winston Groom The hilarious and profound epic story of a dim-wit nobody. The 1994 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright & Gary Sinise won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Effects & Best Editing, nominated for 7 more. Washington Square Press 8x5¼ pb [10/2002] for $10.80 Pocket mass pb [8/94] out of print/used Pocket 8x5¾ hardcover [11/94] out of print/used |
"Better Times Than These" [Simon & Schuster 12/1994] ISBN 978-0-671-52266-7
"Gump and Co." sequel [1995] ISBN 0671521705
"Such A Pretty, Pretty Girl" [1998] ISBN 0375501614
"Kearny's March" [2011] by Winston Groom
 | "El Paso: A Novel" [2016] by Winston Groom A sweeping 6-part saga taking place circa 1913-14 in Texas and in Chihuahua, Mexico; the fading fortunes of a Bostonian railroad tycoon become critical when revolutionary Pancho Villa steals two million dollars worth of cattle from the tycoon's ranch in Old Mexico. Kindle Edition from Liveright [10/2016] for $14.87 Liveright 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/2016] for $21.09 |
Barry Hannah [1942-2010]
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story collections "Airships" & "High Lonesome", novel "Geronimo Rex"
 | "Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories, 1964-2010" [31 stories; 2010] by Barry Hannah Grove Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2010] for $15.49 |
gay black author E. Lynn Harris [1955-2009]
wrote ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers
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"What Becomes of The Brokenhearted: A Memoir" [2004]
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Zenna Henderson [1917-83] + The People
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 | "Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson" [28 stories, 1952-75; 1995] Nesfa Press hardcover [3/95] for $25.00 |
Starring William Shatner, Kim Darby & Diane Varsi; full credits at IMDb
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Patricia Highsmith [1921-95]
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Highsmith Papers at the Swiss Literary Archives
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"Strangers On A Train" [1950] Two men meet on a train and discuss swapping murders: the police will find no connection and each murder will remain unsolved. One man dismisses the conversation as idle banter. But when he travels to Mexico, and is notified by police that his estranged wife has indeed died under suspicious circumstances, he feels trapped. And then the stranger makes demands for the reciprocal murder . . . W.W. Norton pb [8/2001] for $11.16 Penguin mass pb [6/79] out of print/many used |
 | "Strangers On A Train" [Warner Bros. July 1951]
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Raymond Chandler & others from the Highsmith novel; starring Farley Granger & Robert Walker Warner b&w widescreen DVD [9/98] for $10.99 Warner b&w British version VHS [6/2001] for $14.95 Warner b&w Hollywood version VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 full credits on IMDb |
 | "Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith" [2003] by Andrew Wilson Bloomsbury USA 7½x4¾ pb [4/2004] for $14.78 Bloomsbury USA 9½x6¼ hardcover [7/2003] for $26.60 |
mystery author Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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Chester B. Himes [1909-84]
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 | The Autobiography of Chester Himes Volume 1: "The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years" [1972] Thunder's Mouth Press 8x5½ pb [11/95] out of print/many used Doubleday hardcover [3/72] out of print/used Volume 2: "My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years" [1976] Thunder's Mouth Press 8½x5½ pb [11/95] out of print/many used Doubleday hardcover [1/72] out of print/used |
 | "Chester Himes: The Long Climb" documentary [2000] Tell Me Why / History On Video color 30-min. VHS [11/2000] for $29.95 "Chester Himes: A Writer's Turbulent Journey" documentary [2000]
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playwright Wm. Inge [1913-73]
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"Picnic" won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
William Inge Center For The Arts in Independence, Kansas
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David Karp [1922-99]
Emmy-winning Hollywood TV writer, plus three of his novels were highly acclaimed and 'compared favorably
with Orwell for their protests against totalitarianism' (per Los Angeles Times obituary)
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"One (aka Escape To Nowhere)" [1953]
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"The Day of The Monkey" [1955]
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"All Honorable Men: A Novel" [1956]
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Bill Kennedy [1914?-78]
wrote the daily "Mr. L.A." newspaper column during the 1950s to 1970s in the morning Los Angeles Examiner,
then switched to the afternoon Herald-Examiner; largely forgotten today, info sparse on the internet
wife Eve Starr [], who wrote a syndicated column Inside TV
obituary in the New York Times, February 1978
fansite for the 'wrong' Bill Kennedy [1908-97] of Detroit, Michigan TV fame
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Florence Virginia King [1936-2016]
Republican, southern, and gay, King was the definition of an equal-opportunities hater: 'She was the Dorothy Parker of the American south.'
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Frederick Kohner [1905-86] author of "Gidget"
Ursula K. Le Guin [1929-2018] - lived in Portland, Oregon since 1959
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 | "Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia - Malafrena / Stories and Songs" [2016] Edited by Brian Attebery The historical fiction stories and novel were published before Le Guin turned to science fiction; the nation of Orsinia achieved independence in the XIIth Century and but by the XIXth Century was ruled by Austria; the 1976 story collection contains 11 tales; the 1979 novel tells of the struggles (circa 1825-1830) of a young man whose family owns an estate on Lake Malafrena; this book also contains two unpublished songs in the imaginary Orsinian language and two later stories Kindle Edition from Library of America/Penguin Random House [9/2016] for $16.99 Library of America #281 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2016] for $23.71 Library of America author page |
 | "Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 1" [2017] "Rocannon's World" [1966], "Planet of Exile" [1966], "City of Illusions" [1967], "The Left Hand of Darkness" [1969], "The Dispossessed" [1974], Stories Library of America #296 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2017] for $29.00 "Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 2" [2017] "The Word For World Is Forest" [1976], "Five Ways To Forgiveness" [1994], "The Telling" [2000], Stories Library of America #297 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2017] for $28.88 |
(Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
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       | "To Kill A Mockingbird" novel [1960 bestseller] by Harper Lee As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry & racism; won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [7/2014] for $4.73 Grand Central Publng mass pb [10/88] for $4.98 Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $8.46 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $13.43 Heinemann 8x5¾ hardcover [11/99] out of prodn/100+ used HarperCollins slipcover edition [10/2006] out of print/many used HarperCollins 8½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/70+ used Caedmon UNABR audio CD read by Sissy Spacek [8/2006] out of prodn/40+ used | |
 | "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee" [2006] New York Times bestseller by Charles J. Shields Holt 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.20 Henry Holt & Co. 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.50 |
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