Provides an overview of the life and career of author Ray Bradbury, along with scholarly readings of eight of his works and a primary and secondary bibliography.
Presents a biographical profile of author Margaret Atwood, discusses the influences on her work, including her Canadian heritage, and provides critical analyses of six Atwood novels, written between 1969 and 2000.
Provides information on the life of author Michael Crichton, discussing the development of his literary style, and analyzes each of his ten major novels, beginning with "The Andromeda Strain, " written in 1969.
Provides biographical information about American author John Irving, and offers an analysis of each of nine novels written by Irving between 1968 and 1998.
A guide to reading and understanding three novels written by Asian American writer Amy Tan that includes information on the characters, narrative strategies, plot development, literary devices, setting, and major themes of each novel.
Provides an overview of the life and career of author Chaim Potok, along with scholarly readings of eight of his works and a primary and secondary bibliography.
Profiles six novels by twentieth-century North Carolina writer Kaye Gibbons, discussing their plots, characters, settings, themes, and imagery and providing Marxist, cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic readings.
