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 | A Circular Journey ISBN: 9780823247561 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Barolini Helen 1925–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Italian American women -- Intellectual life; American literature -- Italian influences; Italian Americans in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop ISBN: 9781587292767 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Engle Paul 1908–1991 -- Friends and associates; Creative writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authorship; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty ISBN: 9781617032974 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Welty Eudora 1909–2001; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper ISBN: 9780253028563 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bacon Albion Fellows 1865; Women social reformers -- Indiana -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Indiana -- Social life and customs; Indiana -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Alfred Bester ISBN: 9780252099076 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bester Alfred -- Criticism and interpretation; Science fiction American -- History and criticism; Bester Alfred; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon ISBN: 9780813171913 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dixon Thomas 1864-1946; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dixon Thomas 1864-1946 -- Film and video adaptations; Dixon Thomas 1864-1946 -- Political and social views; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; African; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century ISBN: 9780820346236 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Douglas Marjory Stoneman; Conservationists -- Florida -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Nature conservation -- Florida -- Everglades -- History; Environmental degradation -- Florida --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken ISBN: 9781609383091 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mencken H. L. (Henry Louis) 1880–1956; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Editors -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico ISBN: 9781452942179 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kerouac Jack 1922–1969 -- Travel -- Mexico; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Americans -- Mexico -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902 ISBN: 9780803256828 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: London Jack 1876–1916; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; London Jack 1876–1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Imagination in literature; Realism in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Because You Have To: A Writing Life ISBN: 9780268079840 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Frank Joan 1949–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Becoming Ray Bradbury ISBN: 9780252093357 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bradbury Ray 1920–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Science fiction American -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas ISBN: 9780520938540 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Islas Arturo 1938–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; English teachers -- United States -- Biography; Stanford University -- Faculty -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life; Mexican American authors -- Biography; Mexican Ameri; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color ISBN: 9780813552248 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: West Dorothy 1907–1998; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; African American authors -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility ISBN: 9780268077525 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: O’Neill Eugene 1888–1953; American drama -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism; Dramatists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; O’Neill Eugene 1888–1953 -- Religion; Catholics -- United States -- B; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life ISBN: 9781613762158 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Authors American -- Biography -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Critically ill -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism ISBN: 9780813055923 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wharton Edith 1862–1937; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Cosmopolitanism; Women intellectuals -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention ISBN: 9781400854790 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Self in literature; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Sartre Jean Paul 1905 -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors French; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership ISBN: 9780268103118 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: O’Connor Flannery; Giroux Robert; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Book editors -- United States -- Biography; Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 9780816682027 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fitzgerald E Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Frederik Pohl ISBN: 9780252097744 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Pohl Frederik; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 21st century -- Biography; Science fiction American -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hamlin Garland: A Life ISBN: 9780803217713 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Garland Hamlin 1860—1940; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane ISBN: 9780253007322 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fast Howard 1914-2003; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Jewish authors -- United States -- Biography; Communists -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes ISBN: 9780268086848 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: McInerny Ralph M; McInerny Ralph M -- Friends and associates; Novelists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Catholic authors -- United States -- Biography; College teachers -- United States -- Biography; University of Notre Dame -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | If I Could Write This in Fire ISBN: 9780816666553 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cliff Michelle; Authors Jamaican -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Jamaican Americans -- Biography; Lesbian authors -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin ISBN: 9780813159669 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Riskin Robert; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau ISBN: 9781587295157 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Flandrau Charles Macomb 1871–1938; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen ISBN: 9781587291302 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Toomer Jean 1894–1967; Larsen Nella; American fiction -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Afro-American novelists -- 20th century -- Biography; Afro-Americans in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist ISBN: 9780813173993 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cobb Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) 1876-1944; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Humorists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jack London's Racial Lives: A Critical Biography ISBN: 9780820339702 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: London Jack 1876–1916; London Jack 1876–1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; London Jack 1876–1916 -- Knowledge -- Race; London Jack 1876–1916 -- Political and social views; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Race in literature; Raci; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America ISBN: 9781469625065 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: London Jack 1876–1916; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; London Jack 18761916 -- Political and social views; Social problems in literature; Social ethics in literature; United States -- In; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jesse Stuart On Education ISBN: 9780813161761 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Stuart Jesse 1907- -- Biography; Stuart Jesse 1907- -- Knowledge -- Education; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Education -- United States -- Philosophy; Educators -- Kentucky -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | John Bartlow Martin: A Voice for the Underdog ISBN: 9780253016188 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Martin John Bartlow 1915–1987; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Speechwriters -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945–1989; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism ISBN: 9780820341958 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Killens John Oliver 1916–1987; Killens John Oliver 1916–1987 -- Political activity; African American authors -- Biography; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son ISBN: 9780252096211 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hawthorne Julian 1846–1934; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Fathers and sons -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Hawthorne Nathaniel 1804–1864 -- Family; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters ISBN: 9780252097362 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Boyle Kay 1902–1992; Women authors American -- Correspondence; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Larry Brown: A Writer's Life ISBN: 9781604739862 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brown Larry 1951–2004; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I ISBN: 9780295999371 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: MacDonald Betty Bard; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Children’s literature -- Authorship; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore ISBN: 9780814707555 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dunbar Paul Laurence 1872–1906 -- Marriage; Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore 1875–1935 -- Marriage; Authors’ spouses -- United States -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Poets American -- 19th century -- Biography; Married people -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mary Austin and the American West ISBN: 9780520942264 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Austin Mary Hunter 1868–1934; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century; Western stories -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick ISBN: 9780300239577 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Austin Mary Hunter 1868–1934; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; West (U.S.) in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mentor : A Memoir ISBN: 9780982569108 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / Perseus Books Group Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Authors American : 20th century : Biography.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | My Unsentimental Education ISBN: 9780820348735 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Monroe Debra; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Women authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Working class women -- United States -- Biography; Single mothers -- United States -- Biography; Monroe Debra -- Relations with men; Man-; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | My Victorians: Lost in the Nineteenth Century ISBN: 9781609386689 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Clark Robert 1952–; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography ISBN: 9780820343945 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hopkins Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth); Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; African American women -- Intellectual life; Women and literature -- United States; African American authors -- Biogra; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Portrait Of A Father ISBN: 9780813156835 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Warren Robert Penn 1905- -- Biography -- Family; Warren Robert Franklin; Warren family; Fathers -- United States -- Biography; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street ISBN: 9780803206670 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Powers Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) 1905–1971; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Pulp literature -- Authorship; Western stories -- Authorship; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ray Bradbury Unbound ISBN: 9780252096631 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bradbury Ray 1920–2012; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography ISBN: 9781587290992 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Carver Raymond -- Friends and associates -- Interviews; Carver Raymond -- Criticism and interpretation; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography ISBN: 9780813921945 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Authors American -- Biography -- History and criticism; Natural history -- United States -- Historiography; Naturalists -- Biography -- History and criticism; Nature in li; ■ Detailed Information |