american fiction

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of twenty-five American short story writers active in the years between 1910 and 1945; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Profiles more than thirty American short-story writers from the period 1880-1910, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Makes study for the SAT easier using a facing-page format which, on the right-hand side, lays out the text of Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, highlighting challenging SAT words, and, on the left-hand side, their definitions, part of speech, pronunciation, and synonyms.

Discusses with a few photographs, the life and works of well known author S.E. Hinton--from the teenage author to the mature writer, analyzing each of her books and explaining the reasons for their popularity.

Contains two romance novels about the O'Hurley family, including "The Last Honest Woman," in which publicity-shy Abby O'Hurley, the widow of an infamous race car driver, struggles to resist the questions and the charms of biographer Dylan Crosby; and "Dance to the Piper," in which dancer Maddy O'Hurley and mogul Reed Valentine find that love provides a powerful distraction from their individual pursuits.

Collects short late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century works by American writers Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Jack London, and O. Henry.

Defines the features and characteristics of popular reading genres and subgenres, including historical fiction, westerns, crime, adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, Christian fiction, and emerging genres, each with a listing of representative titles, and includes essays on the social nature of reading, and readers' advisory.

Examines the lack of accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality found in young adult literature and identifies titles that deal with the issues gay and lesbian teens face on a day-to-day basis.