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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
on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
here on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
on Page Six: XX-XXIst Century Authors
Latter XXth Century
American Authors
A thru L {on Page 4} M thru Z {just below}
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Norman Mailer [1923-2007]
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Wikipedia
 | "The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts On Writing" [2003] "[This] may be the most insightful book written about writing." — Robert Jaffee, L.A. Weekly Random House 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $11.16 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2003] for $17.47 |
 | "The Armies of The Night: History As A Novel, The Novel As History" [1968] Mailer participated in the March On The Pentagon of 21 October 1967; his arrest and news commentary were expanded into a book, which became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. Plume 8x5¼ pb [1/95] for $10.20 New American Library hardcover [12/68] out of print/used |
 | "The Deer Park" [Putnam 1955] Based on Mailer's experiences working as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the early 1950s, set in a desert town much like Palm Springs, California. Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/97] for $11.20 |
David Markson [1927-2010]
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 | "The Ballad of Dingus Magee: Being The Immortal True Saga of The Most Notorious and Desperate Bad Man of The Olden Days" [1965] by David Markson Western parody; stagecoach robber Dingus Magee robs his old pal Hoke, who stops off at the town of Yerkie's Hole and is appointed sheriff by the lady mayor, who is also madam of the bordello. Her plan is to stir up the local (peaceful) Indians, so that the U.S. Army cavalry outpost does not move away, taking with it the town's economy. Counterpoint bargain price mass pb [5/2008] for $5.58 Counterpoint mass pb [5/2008] for $12.55 Dell mass pb [1965] out of print/used Bobbs-Merrill 8x5¾ hardcover [1965] out of print/used |
 | "Dirty Dingus Magee" feature film [M.G.M. Nov 1970] Co-produced & directed by Burt Kennedy; based on the novel by David Markson; starring Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Lois Nettleton, Jack Elam, Michele Carey & John Dehner full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia M.G.M./Warner color VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used Double Feature soundtrack CD - with "The Dirty Dozen" [1967] Chapter III Records soundtrack CD [7/2000] 26 tracks - out of prodn/used |
"Cry For Me, Billy" [1972] Western movie /tt0068429/
"Wittgensteins Mistress" [Dalkey Archive, 1988]
"Readers Block" [Dalkey Archive Press, 1996]
"This Is Not A Novel" [Counterpoint, 2001]
"Vanishing Point" [Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004]
"The Last Novel" [Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007]
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Leonard Michaels [1933-2003]
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"The Collected Stories" [2007] by Leonard Michaels FS&G 8¼x5½ pb [7/2008] for $10.20 FS&G 9x6 hardcover [5/2007] for $17.16 |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
James A. Michener [1907-97] Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Arthur Miller [1915-2005] Page
 | Arthur Miller: Collected Plays, 1944-1961 [2006] Edited by Tony Kushner Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [2/2006] for $23.10 includes "The Man Who Had All the Luck" [written 1940]; "All My Sons" [1947]; "Death of A Salesman" [1949]; Miller's 1950 adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of The People"; "The Crucible" [1953]; "A View From The Bridge [1955]; "A Memory of Two Mondays" [1955 one-act]; and "The Misfits" [1961 novella] |
 | "The Portable Arthur Miller" [1971] Edited by Christopher Bigsby expanded edition includes full texts of plays "Death of A Salesman" [1949]; "The Crucible" [1953]; "After The Fall" [1964]; "The American Clock" [1980]; "The Last Yankee" [1993]; and "Broken Glass" [1994]; plus excerpts from the play "The Golden Years" [1939-1940] & Miller's autobiography "Timebends" [1987] Penguin Classics 7½x5 pb [7/2003] for $11.56 |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan [1904-64]
U.S. Ambassador, 1973-76; U.S. Senator from New York, 1977-2001; wrote over 20 books
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"Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait In Letters of An American Visionary"
[PublicAffairs 2010] Edited by Steven R. Weisman
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California historian-journalist Remi A. Nadeau [b. 1920]
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mystery author Robert B. Parker [1932-2010] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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Denne Bart Petitclerc [1929-2006]
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movie credits
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
sci-fi author H. Beam Piper [1904-64] Page
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Roger Price [1918-90]: books Wikipedia
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J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]
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Wikipedia
SF's J.D. Salinger fansite
Sundeep's J.D. Salinger fansite
"J.D. Salinger: A Life" [2011] by Kenneth Slawenski /1400069513/
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Thomas Savage [1915-2003]
books
publisher page
not on Wikipedia
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Miv Schaaf [??-1998]
weekly columnist for L.A. Times, circa 1970s
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Hubert Selby, Jr. [1928-2004]
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'Exit Wounds' Hubert Selby, Jr. fansite
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Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} Page
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playwright & poet Ntozake Shange
books
movie & TV credits
Wikipedia
"for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" [1974 stageplay]
stageplay entry at Wikipedia
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"for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: A Choreopoem" [1975]
Scribner movie tie-in 8½x5½ pb [11/2010] for $7.20 Scribner 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2010] for $15.64 Bantam Books mass pb [12/81] out of print/used Shameless Hussy Press hardcover illustrated by Wopo Hilip [1/75] out of print/used |
Joseph Papp Public Theatre, off-Broadway 1976 {won Obie Award}
Broadway credits, 9/1976-7/1978 {Tony Award nomination}
 | "American Playhouse" TV broadcast [P.B.S./WPBT-TV Feb 1982] 78-minute telecast directed by Oz Scott; adapted by & co-starring Ntozake Shange; also starring Sarita Allen, Trazana Beverley, Gregory T. Daniel, Pedro De Pool, Lisa Henley, Patti LaBelle, Carol Maillard, Lynn Whitfield & Alfre Woodard Kultur Video color DVD [2/2002] for $17.49 Kultur Video color VHS [2/2002] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
American Place Theatre, off-Broadway revival 2000
"For Colored Girls" [Lionsgate/34th Street Films Nov 2010] 
 | Feature film set in Atlanta, with much of Ntozake Shange's poetry intact; the seven color names are dropped, and the 20 characters have regular names; Perry's direction is superb, and the performances in the soliloquies are astounding. Co-produced, written & directed by Tyler Perry; adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1974 stageplay; starring Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad & Whoopi Goldberg
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site |
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Jean Shepherd [1921-99]
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spoken word
2004 bio
movie credits
Wikipedia
   | "A Christmas Story" [M.G.M. Nov 1983]
Set in northern Indiana in 1940; young Ralphie wants only one thing for Christmas, an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock. His attempts to convince the world of the rightness of his quest run into opposition from his parents, his teacher, and even Santa Claus himself. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Bob Clark; co-written by Leigh Brown & Jean Shepherd, based on stories by Jean Shepherd; starring Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, R.D. Robb, Tedde Moore, Yano Anaya & Zack Ward, narrated by Jean Shepherd; won Oscars for Best Director & Best Script Adaptation, nominated for 7 others including Best Picture; W.G.A. nom for Best Adapted Script Warner Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2008] for $15.99 Warner Home Video Collectors Edition widescreen color DVD [11/2008] 2 disks for $30.99 Warner Special Edition widescreen color DVD [11/2008] 2 disks for $23.99 Warner Special Edition widescreen color DVD [10/2003] 2 disks out of prodn/many used Warner Home Video color VHS [9/2000] out of prodn/many used full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site 'A Christmas Story House' Museum & Gift Shop in Cleveland, Ohio |
 | sequel "My Summer Story" [M.G.M. Sept 1994] Ralphie is on a quest for the perfect spinning top to beat the school bully, The Old man is feuding with hillbilly neighbors, and Mother is determined to win all the pieces of a glass china set at a local movie theater. Co-written & directed by Bob Clark; co-written by Leigh Brown & Jean Shepherd, based on stories by Jean Shepherd; starring Kieran Culkin, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Christian Culkin M.G.M. Video widescreen color DVD [8/2006] for $17.99 M.G.M. Video color VHS [4/97] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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humorist Max Shulman [1919-88]
creator of Dobie Gillis and other silliness
books
Broadway credits
movie & TV credits
Wikipedia
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playwright {Marvin} Neil Simon [b. 1927]
books
Broadway credits [1955-2010]
movie & TV credits [1948-2007]
Wikipedia
Rewrites: A Memoir (1996) /0684835622/
The Play Goes On: A Memoir (1999) /0684869802/
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Plays-Neil-Simon-Vol/dp/0452258707/ = vol 1
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Plays-Neil-Simon-Vol/dp/0452263581/ = vol 2
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Plays-Neil-Simon-Vol/dp/0679408894/ = vol 3
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Plays-Neil-Simon-Vol/dp/068484785X/ = vol 4
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columnist Jack Smith [1916-96]: books biography Wikipedia
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Rex Stout [1886-1975] + Nero Wolfe series Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon [1918-85]
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IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust official website
ERW's Theodore Sturgeon fansite
Theodore Sturgeon entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Studs Terkel [1912-2008]
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Chicago Historical Society Studs Terkel website
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"Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews" [1999] 48 live radio interviews by Studs Terkel on WFMT in Chicago Highbridge UNABR audio CD set [6/2005] 6 disks/7½ hours for $23.07 Highbridge UNABR audio cassettes [3/99] 7½ hours - out of prodn/used the 48 interviewees are Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, auteur Woody Allen, Isabel Allende, auteur Robert Altman, Laurie Anderson, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Jacob Bronowski, Mel Brooks, John Cage, Betty Carter, Aaron Copland, Simone de Beauvoir (1963), Ralph Ellison, Daniel Ellsberg, [blacklistee] John Henry Faulk, Dame Margot Fonteyn, thinker R. Buckminster Fuller, econo- mist John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, David Hockney, Robert Hughes, Mahalia Jackson, Garrison Keillor, Alan Lomax, Barry Lopez, Norman Maclean, Margaret Mead, playwright Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Zero Mostel, Bill Moyers, Dorothy Parker, Bertrand Russell, Dr. Oliver Sacks, Pete Seeger, Andres Segovia, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Wole Soyinka, Calvin Trillin, Kenneth Tynan, Gore Vidal, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Garry Wills, and Bob Woodward |
 | "Touch and Go: A Memoir" [2007] by Studs Terkel, with Sidney Lewis Master interviewer & radio host Terkel looks back from the age of 95 on a life lived in the middle of the Roaring Twenties in Chicago, The Great Depression, World War II, the Golden Age of Radio, and Joe McCarthy's blacklist. New Press 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2008] for $13.72 New Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2007] for $16.47 |
 | "The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater" [2008] by Studs Terkel, Introduction by Garry Wills New Press 8x5½ pb [5/2008] for $12.71 1999 hardcover title "The Spectator: Talk About Movies & Plays With The People Who Make Them" New Press 8x5¾ pb [3/2001] for $16.95 New Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/99] for $26.95 the 50+ interviewees include: Edward Albee, James Baldwin, pianist Eubie Blake, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Carol Channing, Rene Clair, Rick Cluchey, Harold Clurman, Ruth Draper, dancer Agnes de Mille, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Ruth Gordon, Uta Hagen, Lorraine Hansberry, Hal Holbrook, Lillian Gish, Uta Hagen, E.Y. (Yip) Harburg, Eugene Ionesco, Pauline Kael, Buster Keaton, Lila Kedrova, Eva Le Gallienne, Lotte Lenya, Joan Littlewood, Moms Mabley, Marcel Marceau, E.G. Marshall, Ian McKellen, playwright Arthur Miller, Jonathan Miller, Robert Morley, Gilbert Moses, [blacklistee] Zero Mostel, Geraldine Page, [blacklistee] John Randolph, auteur Satyajit Ray, Jason Robards Jr., Franηoise Rosay, William Saroyan, Alan Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hiram (Chub) Sherman, Simone Signoret, Jacques Tati, Sybil Thorndike, puppeteer Burr Tillstrom, Kenneth Tynan, director King Vidor, Emlyn Williams, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson & many more |
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gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] Page
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John Kennedy Toole [1937-69]
books
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http://www.amazon.com/Neon-Bible-Jacob-Tierney/dp/1572524553/
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"Ken & Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces" [2005] by Joel L. Fletcher Pelican Publg 7¾x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $14.96 |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Gore Vidal Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007] Page
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Frank Waters [1902-95]
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"The Man Who Killed The Deer" [1942 novel]
Frank Waters Foundation
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Eudora Welty [1909-2001]
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Eudora Welty site at Ole Miss
Eudora Welty Society
Eudora Welty Foundation
Eudora Welty House museum [built 1925; opened 2006] in Jackson, MS
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Welty: Complete Novels [1998] Edited by Richard Ford & Michael Kreyling Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/98] for $23.10 includes "The Robber Bridegroom" [1942 novella]; "Delta Wedding" [1946]; "The Ponder Heart" [1953]; "Losing Battles" [1970]; and Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Optimist's Daughter" [1972] Welty: Stories, Essays & Memoir [1998] Edited by Richard Ford & Michael Kreyling Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/98] for $23.10 includes 41 short stories, 9 essays & the memoir "One Writer's Beginnings" [1984] |
"The Ponder Heart" [PBS TV movie 2001]
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playwright August Wilson [1945-2005]
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won Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 & 1990
MD's August Wilson fansite
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poet James Wright [1927-80]
browse books poems online
Wikipedia
1972 Pulitzer Prize
James Wright Poetry Festival [est. 1981] in Martins Ferry, OH
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Richard Wright [1908-60]
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University of Buffalo's Richard Wright website
"Native Son" [1940 novel]:
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book entry at Wikipedia
"Native Son" b&w movie [1951]:
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"Native Son" color movie [Cinecom 1986]:
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http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Wrights-Almos-Christopher-Brooks/dp/B0002VGST4/
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Richard Yates [1926-92]
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"Revolutionary Road" [rediscovered 1961 novel] by Richard Yates
Mired in creeping boredom in the suburbs, with unfulfilled lives and careers, a prosperous Connecticut couple decides to move with their two children to France to escape the consumer- ist demands of capitalist America. The book is compared to Updike, and described as 'well written, witty & intriguing'; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/2000] for $10.17 Greenwood Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/71] for $89.95 |
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feature film [DreamWorks Dec 2008]
Co-produced & directed by Sam Mendes; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates & Michael Shannon; cast won Ensemble Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Paramount widescreen color Blu-ray [6/2009] for $13.99 Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2009] for $16.99 Nonesuch soundtrack CD [12/2008] 15 tracks for $14.99 full credits at IMDb official movie site |
 | "A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates" [2003] by Blake Bailey Picador 8¼x5½ pb [5/2004] for $12.24 Picador 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2003] out of print/many used |
Frank Yerby [1916-91]
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