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on Page Four:  Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L

on Page Five:  Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z

on Spirit of America's main page:  XXIst Century Authors

New Mexico Authors Page

Early  XXth  Century
American  Authors

Authors A thru M {just below}  •  Authors N thru Z {on Page 3}

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Nelson Algren [1909-81]
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L. Frank Baum [1856-1919]
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"The Wizard of Oz": 'Oz' books • 1939 movie site • 'Wizard of Oz' posters

"The Wizard of Oz" [M.G.M./Loew's Aug 1939] A cyclone picks up a house, a girl, and her dog Toto and transports them to the strange land of Oz, where she meets a Tin Woodsman, a Cowardly Lion, and a Scarecrow. They travel together along the Yellow Brick Road, fighting witches & flying monkeys to get to the Emerald City, where they finally confront the terrible Wizard of Oz. Produced by Mervyn LeRoy, directed by Victor Fleming; based on the novel by L. Frank Baum; starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin & Terry {as Toto}; won Oscars for Best Music Score & Best Song, Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Color Cinematography, Best Special Effects & Best Art Direction, Juvenile Award for Judy Garland; listed on National Film Registry (1989) Warner Collector's Edition color DVD pkg [10/2005] 3 disks for $36.99 Warner Special Edition color DVD set [10/2005] 2 disks for $19.99 Warner/Turner color DVD [10/99] out of prodn/many used M.G.M. color clamshell VHS [9/96] out of prodn/many used M.G.M. color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/many used Rhino/W.E.A. Special Edition soundtrack CD [9/98] for $18.98 Rhino/W.E.A. Deluxe Edition soundtrack CD [7/95] for $22.99 full credits from IMDb

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Robert Benchley [1889-1945]
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Robert Benchley Society [est. 2003]
DB's "Benchley Mania!" fansite
Algonquin Round Table official site

"Robert Benchley: A Biography" [McGraw-Hill 1955] by Nathaniel Benchley

"Robert Benchley and The Knights of The Algonquin" [2000] 26 Paramount comedy shorts [1928-42], with 3 that feature Alexander Woollcott & Donald Ogden Stewart Kino Video b&w DVD [2/2006] for $26.99 Kino Video b&w VHS [6/2000] out of prodn/used

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Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914?]
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online etext of "The Devil's Dictionary" in MS/Reader format

"The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce" [Doubleday 1970] Compiled by Ernest Jerome Hopkins Bison Books 8x5¼ pb [12/84] for $12.89

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Louis Bromfield [1896-1956]
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P.B.S./W.O.S.U. documentary
Malabar Farm Historic Landmark Foundation in Lucas, Ohio

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Heywood Broun [1888-1939]
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Pearl S. Buck [1892-1973]
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"The Good Earth" [1937 movie]: DVD | video | credits at IMDb

1938 Nobel Prize

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W.R. Burnett [1899-1982] Page

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Edgar Rice Burroughs [1875-1950] Page

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James M. Cain [1892-1977] Page

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Willa Cather  [1873-1947]
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Willa Cather Archive at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

"Willa Cather: The Road Is All" [P.B.S./American Masters Sept 2005] Co-produced & directed by Joel Geyer; co-produuced & written by Christine Lesiak PBS Home Video color DVD [4/2006] for $21.99 full credits at IMDb P.B.S. official site

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Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages

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poet-playwright e.e. cummings [1894-1962]
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Poets.org's E.E. Cummings pages
E.E. Cummings Society

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August Derleth [1909-71]
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August Derleth Society bio
August Derleth at Walden East
August Derleth fansite

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Theodore Dreiser [1871-1945]
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International Theodore Dreiser Society [est. 1991]
Dreiser Web Source at UPenn

	Dreiser [1987] Edited by Richard Lehan Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/87] for $29.20 includes "Sister Carrie" [1900 novel], "Jennie Gerhardt" [1911 novel], and "Twelve Men" [1919 non-fiction] Dreiser: "An American Tragedy" [1925 bestseller] Edited by Thomas P. Riggio Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $26.40
	"Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey" [1993] Abridged edition by Richard Lingeman Wiley & Sons 9x6 pb [5/93] for $21.95 "Theodore Dreiser, Volume 1: At The Gates of The City, 1871-1907" [1986] by Richard Lingeman Putnam 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/86] out of print/many used "Theodore Dreiser, Volume 2: An American Journey, 1908-1945" [1990] by Richard Lingeman Putnam hardcover [3/90] out of print/used
	"Dreiser and Veblen: Saboteurs of The Status Quo" [1999] by Clare Virginia Eby Univ MO Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/99] for $39.95 Thorstein B. Veblen Page at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
	"Cambridge Companion To Theodore Dreiser" [2004] Edited by Leonard Cassuto & Clare Virginia Eby Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [3/2004] for $25.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2004] for $75.00
	"The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser" [2005] by Jerome Loving Univ CA Press 9x6½ pb [3/2005] for $26.56

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Lloyd C. Douglas [1877-1951]
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Howard Fast [1914-2003]
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Wm. Faulkner [1897-1962] Page

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F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] Page

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Gene Fowler [1890-1960]
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" The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler" [1977]
by H. Allen Smith
Wm. Morrow hardcover [1/77] out of print/many used

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Robert Frost [1874-1963]
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official Robert Frost website
Vermont Friends of Robert Frost
four Pulitzer Prizes

Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose and Plays [1995] Edited by Richard Poirier & Mark Richardson Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/95] for $23.10 includes the collections "Complete Poems of Robert Frost" [1949] & "In the Clearing" [1962], and nearly two dozen early works

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Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages
main books page • sound movies • silent movies • audio & ebooks

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Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] Pages

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Ben Hecht [1894-1964] browse books • explore videos/DVDs • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

"Ben Hecht: The Man Behind The Legend" [1990] by William MacAdams Barricade Books 9x6½ pb [2/95] out of print/used Scribner hardcover [3/90] out of print/used "A Child of The Century" [1985] memoirs of Ben Hecht Plume 7x5 pb [5/85] out of print/used Dutton hardcover [5/85] out of print/used

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Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
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Ernest Hemingway Foundation [est. 1989] of Oak Park, IL
Hemingway Resource Center [est. 1996]
1954 Nobel Prize

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Robert E. Howard [1906-36]
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Conan the Cimmerian: videos/DVDs • WebRing • official website

Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, TX

	"The Robert E. Howard Reader" [2007]   by Darrell Schweitzer Wildside Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2007] for $10.17 Wildside Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.10
	"The Neverending Hunt: A Bibliography of Robert E. Howard" [2007] by Paul Herman, with Glenn Lord Wildside Press 11x8½ pb [6/2007] for $13.57
	"Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard" [2006] by Mark Finn MonkeyBrain Books 8¾x5 pb [11/2006] for $10.85
	"Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard" [2006] Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, Foreword by Michael Moorcock Hippocampus Press 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $15.00
	"The Whole Wide World" [Sony/Kushner-Locke Dec 1996] Based on the memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, who as a young schoolteacher in 1930s Texas met and befriended the eccentric author of the Conan tales. Co-produced & directed by Dan Ireland; starring Vincent D'Onofrio {as Bob Howard}, Renιe Zellweger {as Novalyne}, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett & Helen Cates Sony widescreen color DVD [7/2003] for $14.99 Sony color VHS [3/99] out of prodn/used U.M.V.D. soundtrack CD [1/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb official movie site 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99
	"One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard - The Final Years" [1986] memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis Donald M Grant 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/86] for $23.10

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Langston Hughes [1925-90]
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Langston Hughes page at A.A.L.B.C.

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Wm. Bradford Huie [1910-86]
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Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
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KH's Zora Neale Hurston fansite
Zora Neale Hurston page at A.A.L.B.C.

	Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings [1995] Edited by Cheryl A. Wall Library of America 8x5 hardcover [2/95] for $24.00 includes "Mules and Men" [1935]; "Tell My Horse" [1937]; "Dust Tracks On A Road" [1942 autobiography]; and 22 essays Hurston: Novels & Stories [1995] Edited by Cheryl A. Wall Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [2/95] for $21.35 includes "Jonah's Gourd Vine" [1934]; "Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937 novel]; "Moses, Man of The Mountain" [1939 novel]; "Seraph On The Suwanee" [1948]; and selected short stories
	"Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories" [1995] Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Sieglinde Lemke HarperPerennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2008] for $11.21   HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [2/96] for $10.17 HarperCollins 8½x6 hardcover [1/95] out of print/used
	"Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" [2002] by Valerie Boyd Scribner 8¾x6 pb [1/2004] for $12.24 Scribner hardcover [12/2002] for $30.00

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California’s 'premier bard'  Robinson Jeffers  [1887-1962]
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Robinson Jeffers pages at University of Illinois/UC
Tor House Foundation
Poets.org's Robinson Jeffers page
Robinson Jeffers alumnus pages at Occidental College, CA

The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volumes I-V [1988-2001] Edited by Tim Hunt Stanford Univ Press 9¾x9 hardcover box set [11/2002] for $300.00

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George S. Kaufman  [1889-1961]
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official George S. Kaufman website

"George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait" [1972] by Howard Teichman
Atheneum hardcover [1/72] out of print/used

Kaufman & Company: Broadway Comedies [2004] Edited by Laurence Maslon Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $26.60 includes "The Royal Family" [1927], "Animal Crackers" [1928], "June Moon" [1929], "Once In A Lifetime" [1930], "Of Thee I Sing" [1931 musical], "You Can't Take It With You" [1936], "Dinner At Eight" [1932], "Stage Door" [1936] and "The Man Who Came To Dinner" [1939]

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Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
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Oliver La Farge papers at UTX-Austin

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sports writer  Ring Lardner  [1885-1933]
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'Lardner Mania' fansite

"Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner" [1977] by Jonathan Yardley Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $18.95 Random House hardcover [1/77] out of print/many used

(his son) screenwriter  Ring Lardner, Jr.  [1915-2000]
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"I'd Hate Myself In The Morning: A Memoir" [2000] by Ring Lardner, Jr.; introduction by Victor Navasky Thunder's Mouth Press 9¼x6 pb [10/2001] for $10.17 Nation Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $15.61

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poet  Vachel Lindsay  [1879-1931]
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Sinclair Lewis  [1885-1951]
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1930 Nobel Prize
Minnesota Historical Society's Sinclair Lewis bio page
Sinclair Lewis Society

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Ross Lockridge, Jr.  [1914-48]
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	"Shade of The Raintree: The Life & Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr." [1994] by (his son) Laurence Lockridge Penguin 7x5 pb [11/95] out of print/used Viking hardcover [4/94] out of print/many used
	"Raintree County" [1948 bestseller & classic] by Ross Lockridge, Jr. Buccaneer Books hardcover [12/91] for $32.97 Penguin pb [4/94] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin hardcover [6/84] out of print/used Pan Macmillan pb [1977] out of print/used
	1957 M.G.M. movie Directed by [blacklistee] Edward Dymytryk; starring Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin & Elizabeth Taylor {nominated for Best Actress Oscar} MGM/UA color VHS [1985] 2 tapes; out of stock/used Warner color roadshow VHS [10/99] 2 tapes; out of stock/used Warner color widescreen VHS [10/99] 2 tapes; out of stock/used MGM/UA color widescreen VHS [1985] 2 tapes; out of stock/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" white poster from Amazon for $9.99 'Raintree County' website

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Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page

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John D. MacDonald [1916-86] + Travis McGee Pages

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Ross Macdonald [1915-83] Page

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John P. Marquand  [1893-1960]
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+ Mr. Moto: Marquand/Moto book • videos/DVDs • JSK's fansite

Marquand papers at Yale

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Don Marquis  [1878-1937]
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+ Archie & Mehitabel: Wikipedia

JE's Don Marquis fansite

"The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel" [2006] by Don Marquis Penguin Classics 7½x5 pb [8/2006] for $10.20 "archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy & Mehitabel" [1996] by Don Marquis, edited by Jeff Adams Univ Press of New England 8¾x5¼ hardcover [2/96] for $11.96 "archyology ii (The Final Dig): The Long Lost Tales of Archy & Mehitabel" [1998] by Don Marquis, edited by Jeff Adams Univ Press of New England hardcover [3/98] for $13.22

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Edison Marshall  [1894-1967]
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H.L. Mencken [1880-1956] Page

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poet  Edna St. Vincent Millay  [1892-1950]
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Millay Colony For The Arts [est. 1973] in Austerlitz, NY
Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry pages at American Poems

	"Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay" [2001] by Nancy Milford Random House 8x5 pb [9/2002] for $10.17 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2001] out of print/many used
	"Millay: Selected Poems" [2003] Edited by J. D. McClatchy American Poets Project/LOA 7¾x4¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60

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Margaret Mitchell  [1900-49]
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official "G.W.T.W." website
G.W.T.W. Ring on RingSurf
Dawn's G.W.T.W. fansite

"Gone With The Wind" novel [Scribner Sept 1936] by Margaret Mitchell Beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara loses her first love, and takes up with renegade Rhett Butler at the start of the War Between The States; she refuses to admit her love for Rhett and eventually loses him and her beloved Tara plantation; awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Warner Books mass pb [8/93] for $7.99 Warner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/99] for $10.85 Scribner 8½x6 hardcover [facsimile] for $17.82

"Gone With The Wind" feature film [Selznick/M.G.M. Dec 1939] Produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Evelyn Keyes, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond & Yakima Canutt; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Actress [VL], Best Supporting Actress [HM], Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Honorary Oscar for "outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood"; Oscar nominations for Best Actor [Gable], Best Supporting Actress [OdH], Best Special Effects, Best Music Score [Max Steiner] & Best Sound; listed on National Film Registry (1989) Warner Collector's Edition color DVD set [11/2004] 4 disks for $27.99 Warner Special Edition color DVD [1/2006] 2 disks for $13.99 Warner color VHS [3/2000] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many used Rhino/WEA soundtrack CD [6/97] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb

official "G.W.T.W." movie site
'Gone With The Wind' posters & photos at AllPosters.com

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