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poet e.e. cummings [1894-1962]         Poet Robert Frost [1874-1963]         James A. Michener [1907-97]         Edgar Allen Poe [1809-49]


on Page One:  Early American Authors  •  Anthologies & Literary History

on Page Two:  Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M

here on Page Three:  Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z  •  The Beats

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 {on Page 2}  •  Authors N thru Z {just below}

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Ogden Nash  [1902-71]
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Best of Ogden Nash   "The Best of Ogden Nash: 450 Favorite Poems From  
America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2007]
Edited by {his daughters} Linell Nash Smith & Isabel Nash Eberstadt

Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $19.11
Ogden Nash / Life & Work   "Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse"
[2005] by Douglas M. Parker

Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5½ pb [4/2007] for $12.89
Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $20.90
Life & Rhymes of Ogden Nash   "The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash" [2000]
by David Stuart

Madison Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2000] for $18.96

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playwright  Clifford Odets  [1906-63]
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Clifford Odets papers at Indiana University

Clifford Odets bio by Margaret Brenman-Gibson  
"Clifford Odets: American Playwright - The Years From 1906-1940" [2002]
by Margaret Brenman-Gibson

Applause Books 9x6½ pb [1/2002] for $15.56
the author died before completing the second volume

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playwright  Eugene O'Neill  [1888-1953] Page

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Dorothy Parker [1893-1967] Page

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S.J. Perelman [1904-79]
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Dawn Powell [1896-1965]
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article on Dawn Powell in September 2001 Atlantic Monthly

Dawn Powell bio by Tim Page  
"Dawn Powell: A Biography" [1998]
by Tim Page

Owl Books 9x6 pb [10/99] out of print/used
Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used
Library of America Dawn Powell   Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930–1942 [2001] Edited by Tim Page
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60
includes "Dance Night" [1930], "Come Back To Sorrento" [1932], "Turn, Magic Wheel" [1936], "Angels On Toast" [1940] and "A Time To Be Born" [1942]
Dawn Powell: Novels, 1944–1962 [2001] Edited by Tim Page
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.64
includes "My Home Is Far Away" autobiographical novel [1944], "The Locusts Have No King" [1948], "The Wicked Pavilion" [1954] and "The Golden Spur" [1962]
Library of America's "Dawn Powell: Comic Genius" pages

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Damon Runyon [1884-1946]
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Denver Press Club's Damon Runyon pages

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poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
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Carl Sandburg Historic Site Assn.
'Chicago Poems' [1916] etext
Carl Sandburg papers at University of IL/UC: Connemara • Asheville
Poets.org's Carl Sandburg pages

Library of America Carl Sandburg  
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems [2006]
Edited by Paul Berman

American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60
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William Saroyan [1908-81]
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official William Saroyan website
Wm. Saroyan Society

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Delmore Schwartz [1913-66]
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Literary Encyclopedia's Delmore Schwartz page

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Irving Shulman  [1913-95]
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Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page

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Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-71]
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1978 Nobel Prize
PBS special

Isaac B. Singer bio by Florence Noiville  
"Isaac B. Singer: A Life" [1980]
by Florence Noiville, translated by Catherine Temerson

FS&G 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.64
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer stories  
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer - Album  
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 1 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $25.55
includes 54 stories: 'Gimpel The Fool' to 'The Letter Writer'
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 2 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60
includes 65 stories: 'A Friend of Kafka' to 'Passions'
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 3 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60
includes 80+ stories: 'One Night In Brazil' to 'The Death of Methuselah'
Singer: An Album [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5 pb [7/2004] for $11.01
Library of America's Singer Centennial Exhibit

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H. Allen Smith [1907-76]
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H. Allen Smith papers at SIU
WH's H. Allen Smith fansite

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expatriate Gertrude Stein [1874-1946]
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'Tender Buttons' Gertrude Stein fansite
EC's Gertrude Stein pages
Gertrude Stein pages at gURL.com

Two Lives / Gertrude & Alice   "Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice" [2007]
by Janet Malcolm

Yale Univ Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.50
publisher's book page
Library of America Gertrude Stein   Stein: Writings, 1903-1932 [1998]
Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/98] for $29.20
includes posthumous novel "Q.E.D." [1903], novellas "Three Lives" [1909], libretto "Four Saints In Three Acts" [1929]
Stein: Writings, 1932-1946 [1998]
Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson

Library of America 8x5 hardcover [3/98] for $29.20
includes "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" [1933], "Lectures In America" [1934], "The Geographical History of America" [1936], libretto "Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights" [1938], children's book "The World Is Round" [1938], "Brewsie and Willie"
[1946] and libretto "The Mother of Us All" [1949]

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John Steinbeck [1902-68] Page

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Jesse Stuart [1906-1984] of Kentucky
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Sue's Jesse Stuart fansite
Jesse Stuart Foundation [est. 1979]
Jesse Stuart State Nature Preserve in Greenup County, KY

Jesse Stuart Reader   "Jesse: The Biography of An American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart"
[1984] by H. Edward Richardson

McGraw-Hill hardcover [1/84] out of print/used
"A Jesse Stuart Reader: Stories & Poems" [McGraw-Hill 1963]
Edited by Jesse Stuart

Jesse Stuart Foundation 8½x5½ pb with study guide [9/2003] for $10.20
Jesse Stuart Foundation 9x6 hardcover [1/93] for $22.00
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Jim Thompson [1906-77] Page

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James Thurber [1894-1961]
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official James Thurber website
NR's James Thurber fansite

James Thurber portrait   "Thurber: A Biography" [1975] by Burton Bernstein
Ballantine mass pb [2/76] out of print/used
Wm. Morrow 9¼x6 pb [5/96] out of print/many used
Dodd, Mead hardcover [3/75] out of print/many used
Library of America James Thurber   Thurber: Writings and Drawings [1996]
Edited by Garrison Keillor

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/96] for $23.10
includes "My Life and Hard Times" [1933], stories "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
[1939] & "The Catbird Seat", anti-war parable "The Last Flower" [1939], "Fables For Our Time" [1940], the children's classic "The 13 Clocks" [1950], and selections from "The Owl In The Attic" [1931], "Let Your Mind Alone" [1937], "My World and Welcome To It" [1942], and "The Years With Ross" [1959]

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Nathanael West [1903-40]
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Library of America Nathanael West  
West: Novels and Other Writings [1997]
Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch

Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/97] out of print/used
includes novels "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" [1931], "Miss Lonelyhearts" [1933], "A Cool Million" [1934] & "The Day of The Locust" [1939], plus stories, film scripts & correspondence
Day of The Locust novel  
"The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)
NAL pb [9/83] for $5.95
Amereon hardcover [12/97] for $19.95
DH Audio ABR [9/87] 2 tapes out of print/used
Day of The Locust movie   "The Day of The Locust" feature film [Paramount May 1975]
Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty
Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $14.23
Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb

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Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
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Edith Wharton Society [est. 1983]

Library of America Edith Wharton novels  

Library of America Edith Wharton College Edition  

Edith Wharton: Novels [1986] Edited by R.W.B. Lewis
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [5/86] for $26.40
includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "The Reef" [1912], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920]
Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings [1990]
Edited by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Library of America hardcover [4/90] for $29.25
includes "Madame de Treymes" [1907], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "Summer" [1917], "Old New York: Four Novellas" [1924], "The Mother's Recompense" [1925], and "A Backward Glance" [1934]
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 [2001]
Edited by Maureen Howard

Library of America 8&5¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $25.55
includes "The Touchstone" [1900], "Sanctuary", "The Eyes" and 35 other stories
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 [2001]
Edited by Maureen Howard

Library of America hardcover [2/2001] for $25.55
includes "Xingu" [1916], "The Marne", "A Bottle of Perrier", "All Souls", "Roman Fever" [1934] and 24 other stories
Edith Wharton: Selected Poems [2005]
Edited by Louis Auchincloss

American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $15.60
Wharton: Four Novels [1996]
Edited by R.W.B. Lewis & Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [10/96] for $13.95
includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920]

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Tennessee Williams [1911-83]
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Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, LA
Ole Miss Tennessee Williams site

Life of Tennessee Williams  
"The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams" [1985]
by Donald Spoto

Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/97] for $18.95
Ballantine mass pb [3/86] out of print/many used
Little, Brown hardcover [3/85] out of print/many used
Library of America Tennessee Williams   Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1937–1955 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40
includes "Spring Storm" [1937], "Not About Nightingales" [1938], "The Glass Menagerie" [1944], "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947], "Summer and Smoke" [1948], "The Rose Tattoo" [1951], "Camino Real" [1953], Pulitzer Prize–winning "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" [1955] & 12 other plays
Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1957–1980 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40
includes "Orpheus Descending" [1957], "Suddenly, Last Summer" [1958], "Sweet Bird of Youth" [1959], "Period of Adjustment" [1960], "The Night of The Iguana" [1961], "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" [1963], "The Mutilated" [1966], "Kingdom of Earth" [1968], "Small Craft Warnings" [1972], "Out Cry" [1973], "Vieux Carrι" [1977] & "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" [1979]

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Thomas Wolfe [1900-38]
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Thomas Wolfe Web Site at University of North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe Memorial [est. 1949] in Asheville, NC
Thomas Wolfe Society [est. 1979]

Thomas Wolfe Illustrated Biography  
"Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography" [2007]
Edited by Ted Mitchell

Pegasus Books 10x7 pb [3/2007] for $17.16
Life of Thomas Wolfe   "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" [1987]
by David Herbert Donald

which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $21.50
Little, Brown hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used
Ballantine/Fawcett pb [2/88] out of print/many used
Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe   "The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe" [1989]
Edited by Francis E. Skipp, Foreword by James Dickey

Scribner/Collier 9x6 pb [5/89] for $27.50

Authors A to Z Books at Amazon.com
Authors A to Z Audiocassettes at Amazon.com
'American Writers' series on C-SPAN



The  Beats

'The Beat Generation' Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

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Charles Bukowski [1920-94] Page

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Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] Page

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Gregory Corso [1930-2001] Page

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Diane DiPrima
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Diane DiPrima papers at University of Louisville, KY
official Diane DiPrima website
Blue Neon's Diane DiPrima pages

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers [est. 1953] of San Francisco, CA

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Allen Ginsberg [1926-97] Page

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Jack Kerouac [1922-69] Pages

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Ken Kesey [1935-2001] Page

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Dr. Timothy Leary [1920-96]
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official Timothy Leary website [est. 1992]
'Declaration of Evolution' fansite
RS's Timothy Leary fansite [est. 1999]

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Michael McClure
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official Michael McClure homepage
McClure-Manzarek site

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Henry Miller [1891-1980]
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official Henry Miller website
Henry Miller bio at Monterey County [CA] Historical Society
SP's Henry Miller fansite

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Kenneth Patchen [1911-72]
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Poets.org's Kenneth Patchen page
official Kenneth Patchen website

Kenneth Patchen Rebel Poet  
"Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America" [2000]
by Larry Smith

Bottom Dog Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2000] for $25.95
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Gary Snyder
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Poets.org's Gary Snyder page
Gary Snyder page at LitKicks
Gary Snyder homepage

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Anne Waldman
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Naropa's Anne Waldman page
Poetspath's Anne Waldman page

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Allan Watts [1915-73] Pages

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