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 | Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation ISBN: 9781469602271 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Autobiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States; Antislavery movemen; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today ISBN: 9780820335872 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: College teachers -- United States -- Biography; College teachers as authors -- United States; Autobiography -- Authorship; ■ 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 | |
 | Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents ISBN: 9781496217233 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Authors American -- Family relationships; Parent and child -- United States; Parenting -- Psychological aspects -- United States; Identity (Psychology) -- United States; Self; Authors American -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bertolt Brecht in America ISBN: 9781400855902 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brecht Bertolt 1898-1956 -- Biography -- Exile -- United States; Authors German -- 20th century -- Biography; Brecht Bertolt 1898-1956 -- Appreciation -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East--A Cultural Biography ISBN: 9780813549279 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chiang Yee 1903–1977; Chinese American authors -- Biography; Chinese American artists -- Biography; Chinese -- United States -- Biography; Chinese -- England -- Biography; Asian diaspora; Chinese in Literature; China -- In literature; Exiles’ writings ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss ISBN: 9780252093432 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Violence -- Press coverage; Psychic trauma -- Press coverage; War correspondents -- Mental health; Authors American -- Psychology; Violence in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- Great Brita; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow ISBN: 9780820337029 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- Historiography; African Americans -- Segregation -- Historiography; Race discrimination -- United States -- Historiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; African Americans -- Biography -- History and; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North ISBN: 9780773585706 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hahn Emily 1905–1997 -- Travel -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs; Congo Belgian; Women travelers -- United States -- Biography; Authors America; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier ISBN: 9781442673274 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Skinner Constance Lindsay 1877–1939; Authors Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography; Book editors -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Pioneers -- British Columbia -- Biography; ■ 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence ISBN: 9780812203523 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Murray Judith Sargent 1751–1820; Authors American -- 18th century -- Biography; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Feminism and l; ■ 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 | |
 | For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors ISBN: 9781609385828 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wolfson Laura Esther; Wolfson Laura Esther -- Knowledge -- Languages; Multilingual persons -- Biography; Jewish women -- United States -- Biography; Divorced women -- Biography; Women authors -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature ISBN: 9780472024681 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticicism; Cancer in literature; Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Cancer patients’ writings American -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind ISBN: 9780472026289 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: De Cleyre Voltairine 1866–1912; De Cleyre Voltairine 1866–1912 -- Criticism and interpretation; Women anarchists -- United States -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Women authors American -- Biography; Anarchism -- United States; ; ■ 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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: 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | Life of Lidian Jackson Emerson ISBN: 9781609170103 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Emerson Lidian Jackson 1802–1892; Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803–1882 -- Biography -- Marriage; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors’ wives -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement ISBN: 9781496213587 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Deloria Vine; Indian authors -- United States -- Biography; Indian activists -- United States -- Biography; Biographies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage ISBN: 9780472028535 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminist drama -- History and criticism; Autobiography in literature; Biography in literature; Feminism and literature -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lost Creeks: Collected Journals ISBN: 9780803224711 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Posey Alexander Lawrence 1873–1908; Creek Indians -- Biography; Indian authors -- United States -- Biography; Indian Territory; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869–1934; ■ 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 | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim ISBN: 9780820336596 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fuller Margaret 1810–1850; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 ISBN: 9780820346397 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hughes Carrie –1938 -- Correspondence; Hughes Langston 1902–1967 -- Correspondence; Mothers of authors -- United States -- Correspondence; African American mothers -- Biography; African American authors -- Family relationships; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | Poe ISBN: 9781604736533 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poe Edgar Allan 1809–1849; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Critics -- United States -- Biography; ■ 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left ISBN: 9780295805047 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR WA).; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; Authors American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. ISBN: 9780674088979 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dana Richard Henry Jr. 1815–1882; Lawyers -- United States -- Biography; Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Biography; Authors -- United States -- Biography; Sailors -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States; United States -- P; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Stowe in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, F ISBN: 9781587298325 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Stowe Harriet Beecher 1811–1896; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution ISBN: 9781613766828 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution 1775–1783 -- Women -- Biography; American women loyalists -- Biography; American loyalists -- Biography; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The American Lawrence ISBN: 9780813055138 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lawrence D. H. (David Herbert) 1885–1930 -- Criticism and interpretation; Authors English -- 20th century -- Biography; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Complete Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson ISBN: 9780813043579 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Woolson Constance Fenimore 1840–1894 -- Correspondence; Woolson Constance Fenimore 1840–1894 -- Biography; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Complex Image: Faith and Method in American Autobiography ISBN: 9781512801835 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American prose literature -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Authors American -- Biography -- History and criticism; United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten ISBN: 9780520939936 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lawson John Howard. 1894–1977; Dramatists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography; Blacklisting of authors -- United States; Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Theater -- New; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Road ISBN: 9780813540122 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: London Jack 1876–1916 -- Travel -- United States; Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography; Prisoners -- United States -- Biography; Tramps -- United States -- Biography; Railroad travel -- United States; Vagrancy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information |