Contains essays that provide information about over twenty major British authors, each featuring a biography, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography, and includes an article on Old English literature. Arranged alphabetically from Austen to Wilde.
Presents essays that describe the lives and examine the principal works of significant British authors, covering eighteen writers in alphabetical order from Caroline Blackwood to Charles Walter Stansby Williams. Includes a cumulative index and primary and secondary selected bibliographies.
Presents biographical and critical profiles of twenty-two British writers spanning the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century, each with a selected bibliography; also includes a chronology and a cumulative index of the "British Writers" series up to Supplement VI. Includes authors from Peter Ackroyd to A.N. Wilson.
Presents biographical and critical profiles of twenty-two British writers spanning the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century, each with a selected bibliography; also includes a chronology and a cumulative index of the "British Writers" series up to Supplement VI. Includes authors from Peter Ackroyd to A.N. Wilson.
Contains excerpts from the memoirs of over sixty Americans, including Walt Whitman, W.E.B. DuBois, Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Eudora Welty, and Sherman Alexie.
A biography of American author William Faulkner that draws from memoirs, letters, and interviews with his daughter and lovers and examines the ways that his life shaped the world of his fiction.
Chronicles the life of Robert Frost and discusses his childhood in San Francisco, his college days at Dartmouth, his friendships with Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound, his writing career, and other related topics.
