圣智学习

This important reference gives readers fascinating insight into the careers of nearly 500 20th-century writers. Entries are comprised of important critical excerpts, chronologically arranged, and collected from a wide variety of sources such as books, scholarly journals, general periodicals and newspapers. Recently acquired from the Continuum Publishing Company, this new edition greatly expands the coverage of this respected work, including a greater number of black and women writers. Authors covered include:

Isaac Asimov
Kay Boyle
Don DeLillo
Rita Dove
Louise Erdrich
Oscar Hijuelos
Mary (Catherine) Gordon
Maxine Hong Kingston
Tony Kushner
Grace Paley
Henry Roth
Ntozake Shange
August Wilson

"Useful for libraries that like to make available prepackaged literary criticism or for those that lack extensive print or full-text database journal collections."
-- CHOICE (July/August 1999)