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![F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]](images/SAAfitzgerald.jpg)
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on Page One: Early American Authors • Anthologies & Literary History
on Page Two: Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z • The Beats
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Latter XXth Century
American Authors
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Isaac Asimov [1920-92]
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official Isaac Asimov website
Isaac Asimov Robot Mysteries Page
'Foundation' series
ES's Isaac Asimov fansite
JHJ's Isaac Asimov fansite
Isaac Asimov entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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James Baldwin [1924-87]
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Baldwin: Collected Essays [1998] Edited by Toni Morrison
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [2/98] for $23.10 includes essays from "Notes of A Native Son" [1955], "Nobody Knows My Name" [1961], "The Fire Next Time" [1963], "No Name In The Street" [1972] & "The Devil Finds Work" [1976], plus 36 more Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories [1998] Edited by Toni Morrison Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [2/98] for $23.10 includes novels "Go Tell It On The Mountain" [1953], "Giovanni's Room" [1956] & "Another Country" [1962], and stories from "Going To Meet The Man" [1965] |
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Saul Bellow [1915-2005]
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1976 Nobel Prize
Saul Bellow Society & Journal [est. 1981]
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Bellow: Novels, 1944–1953 [2003] Edited by James Wood
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2003] for $23.10 includes "Dangling Man" [1944], "The Victim" [1947] & "The Adventures of Augie March" [1953] Bellow: Novels, 1956–1964 [2007] Edited by James Wood Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $23.10 includes "Seize The Day" [1956], "Henderson The Rain King" [1959] & "Herzog" [1964] |
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Richard Brautigan [1935-84] Page
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Larry Brown [1951-2004]
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Ole Miss bio page
2002 docu film
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Joseph Campbell [1904-87]
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1986 interview of Joseph Campbell
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"Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind - The Authorized Biography" [1991] by Stephen & Robin Larsen Inner Traditions 8¾x6 pb [4/2002] for $16.50 Anchor 9¼x6 pb [12/92] out of print/many used Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [11/91] out of print/many used authors' website |
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"The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell" [Direct Cinema Ltd. Dec 1987] Co-written, co-produced & co-directed by Janelle Balnicke; co-directed by David Kennard Acacia color DVD [2/2007] for $14.99 Mystic Fire Video color VHS [2/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth" [P.B.S. miniseries 1988]
Six 1-hour interviews with Bill Moyers Mystic Fire Video color DVD [10/2001] for $0.00 full credits from IMDb companion book {transcripts} [1988] Broadway Books 10¾x8¼ illustrated pb [4/88] for $21.86 Anchor 8x5 pb [6/91] for $10.17 Doubleday 11x8½ hardcover [5/88] out of print/many, many used |
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Truman Capote [1924-84]
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Truman Capote: His Life & Work {New York Times Sponsored Archive}
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"Capote" bio-film [United Artists Sept 2005]
Directed by Bennett Miller; written by Dan Futterman, based on Gerald Clarke's biography; starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper & Bob Balaban video not yet available; full credits from IMDb official moviesite bio by Gerald Clarke [S&S 1988] Carroll & Graf 9x6 pb [11/2005] for $12.21 |
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Raymond Carver [1938-88]
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Paddy Chayefsky [1923-81]
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Collected Screenplays • Collected Teleplays • Collected Stageplays
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Norman Corwin
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"13 For Corwin: A Paean of Praise for Norman Corwin" [1993] Edited by Ray Bradbury Barricade pb [3/93] for $7.95 |
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"Corwin" TV documentary [indep June 1996]
Written & directed by Les Guthman CustomFlix color DVD [8/2006] for $24.95 |
"A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin" docu short [indep Aug 2005]
Co-produced by Corinne Marrinan, co-produced & directed by Eric Simonson; won Oscar for Best Documentary Short
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IDA Award page
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Lester Dent [1904-59]
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"Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft & His Market" [1995] by M. Martin McCarey-Laird Hidalgo Publng 8¼x5¼ pb [1/95] for $11.95 |
Philip K. Dick [1941-82]
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"Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick" [1989] by Lawrence Sutin Carroll & Graf 8¼x5½ pb [8/2005] for $11.96 Harmony hardcover [12/89] out of print/used |
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"Vintage P.K.D." [2006] anthology of short fiction by Philip K. Dick Vintage 8x5¼ pb [6/2006] for $9.56 |
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"A Scanner Darkly" [Warner July 2006]
Wild rotoscope animated tale of a future where an undercover drug agent begins to lose his mind from the drugs that flood the society he is surveilling. Written & directed by Richard Linklater; based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick; starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder & Woody Harrelson Warner widescreen color DVD [12/2006] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site {Flash only} 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
 | "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s" [2007] Edited by Jonathan Lethem Library of America 8x5 hardcover [5/2007] for $23.10 includes "The Man In The High Castle" [1962], "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" [1965], "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1968], and "Ubik" [1969] which was listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) |
James Dickey [1923-97]
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comedy writer Jack Douglas [1908-89]
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Ralph Ellison [1913-94]
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"Invisible Man" [1952] by Ralph Ellison; won the National Book Award in 1953 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/95] for $10.17 Modern Library 7¼x5 hardcover [6/94] for $13.57 |
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Edward Gorey [1925-2000]
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Elephant House Edward Gorey Museum in Cape Cod, MA
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Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88] Page
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Zenna Henderson [1917-83] + The People
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 | "Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson" [28 stories, 1952-75; 1995] Nesfa Press hardcover [3/95] for $25.00 |
Starring William Shatner, Kim Darby & Diane Varsi; full credits at IMDb
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Patricia Highsmith [1921-95]
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Highsmith Papers at the Swiss Literary Archives
 | "Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith" [2003] by Andrew Wilson Bloomsbury USA 7½x4¾ pb [4/2004] for $14.78 Bloomsbury USA 9½x6¼ hardcover [7/2003] for $26.60 |
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"Strangers On A Train" [1950]
Two men meet on a train and discuss swapping murders: the police will find no connection and each murder will remain unsolved. One man dismisses the conversation as idle banter. But when he travels to Mexico, and is notified by police that his estranged wife has indeed died under suspicious circumstances, he feels trapped. And then the stranger makes demands for the reciprocal murder ... W.W. Norton pb [8/2001] for $11.16 Penguin mass pb [6/79] out of print/many used |
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"Strangers On A Train" [Warner Bros. July 1951]
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Raymond Chandler & others from the Highsmith novel; starring Farley Granger & Robert Walker Warner b&w widescreen DVD [9/98] for $10.99 Warner b&w British version VHS [6/2001] for $14.95 Warner b&w Hollywood version VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 full credits on IMDb |
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Chester B. Himes [1909-84]
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 | The Autobiography of Chester Himes
Volume 1: "The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years" [1972] Thunder's Mouth Press 8x5½ pb [11/95] out of print/many used Doubleday hardcover [3/72] out of print/used Volume 2: "My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years" [1976] Thunder's Mouth Press 8½x5½ pb [11/95] out of print/many used Doubleday hardcover [1/72] out of print/used |
 | "Chester Himes: The Long Climb" documentary [2000] Tell Me Why / History On Video color 30-min. VHS [11/2000] for $29.95 "Chester Himes: A Writer's Turbulent Journey" documentary [2000]
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Wm. Inge [1913-73]
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winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize
William Inge Center For The Arts in Independence, KS
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Harper Lee
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winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize
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"Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee" [2006] New York Times bestseller by Charles J. Shields Holt 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.20 Henry Holt & Co. 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.50 |
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" novel [1960 bestseller] by Harper Lee
As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry & racism; won 1961 Pulitzer prize; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Grand Central Publng mass pb [10/88] for $6.99 Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $10.36 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $10.85 Heinemann 8x5¾ hardcover [11/99] for $13.57 HarperCollins slipcover edition [10/2006] for $23.10 HarperCollins 8½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/many used Caedmon UNABR audio CD read by Sissy Spacek [8/2006] for $32.97 |
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" feature film [Universal Dec 1962]
Directed by Robert Mulligan; script by Horton Foote, based on the novel; starring Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, James Anderson, William Windom, Alice Ghostley & Kim Stanley; won Oscars for Best Actor (Peck), Best Script Adaptation & Best Set Decoration, nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (MB), Best B&W Cinematography & Best Music Score; listed on the National Film Registry (1995), won WGA Award for Best Drama Script Universal legacy Series widescreen b&w DVD [9/2005] 2 disks for $18.49 Universal b&w DVD [4/98] out of prodn/many used Universal widescreen b&w VHS [2/98] out of prodn/many used Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used Varese Sarabande Elmer Bernstein soundtrack CD [7/97] for $13.99 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" open-book poster from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" brown poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
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