American Writers: Selected Authors

Not every library or English classroom can afford the 13-volume American Writers. Scribners has collected 64 of the most requested, curriculum-related articles in a 3-volume set that is affordable to virtually every library in America. The original articles and their bibliographies are printed here exactly as they appeared in American Writers. (Eighteen of the 64 articles included were published as American Writers Retrospective Supplement in 1997.)

1998 • $434 • 3 volumes • 0-684-80604-5

• ALA Outstanding Reference Source

This collection of critical and biographical articles now covers 219 notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays of 12-15 pages in length, by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers, and works. The essays are written in an appealing style, include numerous quotations, and conclude with bibliographies for further study.

1974-1997 • $2,254 • 4 base volumes, 4 double-volume supplements, and a Retrospective Supplement • ISBN: 0-684-80586-3

Individual components also available: $182 per volume, $364 per 2-volume supplement

Rejuvenate your American Writers set with fresh looks at the towering figures of American literature. Written from a 1990s perspective, this innovative supplement includes new bio-critical essays on 19 classic authors, including Dickinson, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Hemingway, James, Updike, Welty, and Whitman.

1997 • $182 • 1 volume • 0-684-80494-8

1st Ed. 500 pp. Edited by Jay Parini.

1999 • ISBN 0-684-80625-8 • Order #GML00100-170639 • $182

1st Ed. 500 pp.

2000 • ISBN 0-684-80623-1 • Product #GML00100-170637 • $182

1st Ed. 500 pp.

2000 • ISBN 0-684-80624-X • Order #GML00100-170638 • $182

NEW: American Writers: Supplement VIII
Among the 18 writers included in this Supplement are: Jim Harrison, Alfred Kazin, Bobbi Ann Mason, Thomas Merton, Gary Snyder and more. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, An imprint of the Gale Group.

1st Ed. 400 pp.

2001 • ISBN 0-684-80637-1 • Order #GML00201-171690• $182

NEW: American Writers: Supplement IX
Among the 18 writers included in this Supplement are: Wendell Berry, Rachel Carson, Alice Hoffman, Calude McKey, Marge Peircey, William Staffor, Amy Tan, L. Frank Baum, Shirley Jackson, Harper Lee and more. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, An imprint of the Gale Group.

1st Ed. 400 pp.

2001 • ISBN 0-684-80648-7 • Order #GML00201-173306• $182

NEW: American Writers: Supplement X,  Edition 10

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons

Among the 18 authors profiled in the Supplement are Madison Smartt Bell, Alice Hoffman, Paul Monette, Anais Nin, Tom Robbins, Amy Tan and others.  

ISBN: 0-684-80649-5

Published/Released: 2001.  Page count: About 630 pp.   Price: US $182.00

NEW: American Writers:  Supplement XI;  Edition 11
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
This supplement ontinues the American Writers Series with new biocritical essays on 18 acclaimed writers. The supplement includes Ann Carson, Czeslaw Milosz, Sonia Sanchez, Terry Southern, Richard Yates and others.

Published/Released: 2002    ISBN: 0-684-31231-X
Page count: About 650 pp.    Price: US $182.00

NEW: American Writers:  Supplement XII,  Edition 12
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
Among the 18 authors in the Supplement are Stephen Vincent Benet, Wanda Coleman, James Jones, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others.

Published/Released: 2002        ISBN: 0-684-31232-8
Page count: About 630 pp.        Price: US $182.00

• ALA Outstanding Reference Source
• Booklist Editor’s Choice

From Walden to Arctic Dreams, nature writing is a powerful American literary tradition. The essays in the set combine biography, criticism, and in some cases, interviews to tell the story of each author. This set includes 70 biographical/critical essays on such writers as Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barry Lopez, Henry David Thoreau, and Gary Snyder, and 12 general subject essays. Includes 88 illustrations.

1996 • $360 • 2 volumes • 0-684-19692-1

Thirty-four articles from the acclaimed set have been updated, and 20 new writers who came to prominence since the mid-1980s have been added, expanding this original single-volume publication into two comprehensive volumes. Designed expressly with high school students in mind, the A-to-Z articles are clearly written and accompanied by photos of the authors. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, An imprint of the Gale Group.

2000 • ISBN 0-684-80638-X • Order #GML00100-171611 • $360 / 2-vol. set.

"This work provides critical and biographical essays on 41 representative American women writers who have published since 1870 in a variety of genres"–Library Journal

"An outstanding reference source for all high school, college, and public libraries."–American Reference Books Annual

1991 • $182 • 1 volume • 0-684-19057-5

More and more librarians have told us that the reading and writing of poetry is being stressed in the English and language arts curriculum. Poets: American and British answers the demand for affordable, accessible information on classic poets' lives and works. The 72 signed essays are drawn from Scribner's acclaimed American Writers and British Writers series. This set is an invaluable alternative for librarians with limited budgets!

1998 • $435 • 3 volumes • 0-684-80605-3

Seventy of the most requested authors from the 11-volume British Writers series are now collected in a 3-volume set. With contents chosen by teachers and librarians, the more affordable Selected Authors contains the full-text articles of the essential authors studied in every school’s British literature curriculum.

1997 • $435 • 3 volumes • 0-684-80518-9

• ALA Outstanding Reference Source

This collection of critical essays covers 286 writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background .

1979—1997 • $1999 • 7 volumes plus 4 supplements 0-684-80587-1.

Individual volumes available for $182 each;

Supplements 1-6 are $182 each.

"Destined to become, in record time, a classic."–Booklist

This labor of love by 60 Shakespeare specialists covers all aspects of Shakespeare studies with one volume on his era, one on critical analysis of his work, and one on his influence on 20th-century actors, writers, directors, and musicians.

1985 • $490 • 3 volumes • 0-684-17851-6

• ALA Outstanding Reference Source
• Library Journal Best Reference Source
• CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book

Two volumes of original essays present sixty-five African writers from seventeen countries writing in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and indigenous languages. Subjects span the late nineteenth century to the present. Included are Najib Mahfuz, André Brink, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton, and many more.

1996 • $345 • 2 volumes • 0-684-19651-4

"The unusual combination of lucidity and erudition should make these volumes appealing to a wide range of readers, from students in secondary schools to classical scholars."–Library Journal

This two-volume survey of western literature in the classical period contains 47 chronologically arranged essays.

1982 • $343 • 2 volumes • 0-684-16595-3

Based on a survey of school and college librarians, the editorial staff has selected the 68 most requested authors from the acclaimed 14—volume parent set, now out of print. All articles are complete and unabridged, and average twenty pages in length.

1993 • $434 • 3 volumes • 0-684-19583-6

"Nothing in English compares to the set’s comprehensiveness."–Library Journal

This is the first collection of bio-critical essays on Latin American writers by scholars from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. It includes over 176 chroniclers, novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights from the 16th century to the present.

1989 • $441 • 3 volumes • 0-684-18463-X

This is the first encyclopedia in the Scribner Writers Series to focus on Asian writers and genres. It highlights 25 of the most widely translated Japanese authors, such as Yukio Mishima, Kobo Abe, Junichiro Tanizaki and Fumiko Enchi.

2000 • ISBN 0-684-80598-7 • Order #GML00100-171694 • $182

• 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book

These two volumes on mystery, detective, and espionage fiction cover in 84 articles some of the most influential and popular writers of the genre. Each original, signed article is the ideal bio-critical introduction to its subject. Furnishing both a look at the author’s background and a genuine critical analysis of the major novels and stories, the articles range from 7 to 20 pages. These engaging essays provide substantial treatments of major mystery authors and of such subgenres as the police procedural, the spy novel, and the whodunit.

1998 • $360 • 2 volumes • 0-684-80521-9

• ALA Outstanding Reference Source

This critical survey of more than 150 writers extends from Greco-Roman times to Stephen King and Patricia McKillip. Each article includes description and critical analysis of major works, historical position of the writer, and biography.

1985 • $360 • 2 volumes • 0-684-17808-7

Since the first edition was published in 1982, many new writers have joined the pantheon of greats in this genre. New classics have been discovered and unknown treasures that lay buried have been unearthed. Twenty new essays have been added on authors ranging from Gregory Benford and Katherine MacLean to Lucius Shepard and Gene Wolfe. In addition, 19 essays have been extensively revised. Pictures of most of the 96 authors have been added and the set has been reorganized in alphabetical order for ease of use.

1999 • $182 • 1 volume • 0-684-80593-6

• Library Journal Best Reference Source

To encourage students to learn more about the writers they love to read, this set provides 129 lively, informative essays on the best writers for adolescents. Whether doing research for a book report or trying to find a new book to read, students will learn more about Young Adult authors and their works in this

1997 • $385 • 3 volumes • 0-684-80474-3

1999 • $126 • 1 volume • 0-684-80618-5

This illustrated encyclopedia contains more than 100 essays on the most studied poets and 15 essays on genres such as "Harlem Renaissance Poetry," and "Performance Poetry." Each essay includes a portrait, definitions of difficult terms and concepts. The focus is on poets who either wrote in English or are often read in English translation. Some of the poets and subject articles included are T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, indigenous and tribal poetry, troubadours and advice on writing poetry. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, An imprint of the Gale Group.

1st Ed. 1,400 pp. in 3 vols. Edited by Ron Padgett.

2000 • ISBN 0-684-80591-X • Order #GML00100-169492 • $385 / 3-vol. set.

Articles from the following thirteen Scribner Writers sets are included: African American Writers, African Writers, American Nature Writers, American Writers, Ancient Writers, The Books of the Bible, British Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, Modern American Writers, Science Fiction Writers, Supernatural Writers, and Writers for Children. Release 2.0 is available in two different editions.

The Comprehensive Edition includes all 1,563 essays, the complete contents of all the entire Scribner Writers Series. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives. Includes 600 photos.

1997 • Windows 0-684-80552-9 • Macintosh 0-684-80613-4 • $1495 Single-user/LAN price WAN versions priced by number of users/terminals; call 1-800-223-1244 for quote.

The Selected Authors Edition, includes full-text essays on 808 of the most frequently requested writers–all 507 essays from Release 1.0 plus 301 additional essays and 600 photos.

1997 • Windows 0-684-80502-2 • Macintosh 0-684-80612-6 • $1120 Single-user/LAN price WAN versions priced by number of users/terminals; call 1-800-223-1244 for quote.

Unlock the contents of 66 volumes of the thirteen sets in the Scribner Writers series with this "Literary Yellow Pages," which offers access by genre, language, nationality, and time period. An invaluable addition to any library or school that shelves any titles in the Scribner Writers series.

1997 • $175 • 0-684-80557-X  NOW OUT OF PRINT.
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