Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of America s greatest dramatists and as an innovator of post-World War II theater. He looked for a mechanism for portraying the truth in theater at a time when
In a single, eye-opening volume, Edgar Allan Poe, Updated Edition presents complex critical analyses of this author's work. Critic, poet, and storyteller, Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his chilli
William Faulkner is one of America's most highly regarded novelists. This volume of new critical essays examines The Sound and the Fury; Light in August; As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom!; and other
Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous American poets of the 19th century, is known for her preferred seclusion from the outside world. The vast majority of her poems were published posthumously, as
Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Although her work was long ignored, it is now widely studied and praised. Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a classic
J.D. Salinger's powerful fiction and enigmatic persona have captivated readers for more than 50 years. His works include Nine Stories; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Franny and Zooey, but
Having true international appeal, James Baldwin was as well known in Istanbul and Paris as he was in Harlem. His reputation was made on incendiary and eloquent essays written and published to mass ac
John Steinbeck stands as one of the most popular and widely read novelists in America. The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, he wrote such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and
