Drew explores the way white fiction writers wrote about black characters during the Jim Crow era. The book puts a heavy focus on Octavus Roy Cohen’s Florian Slappey stories, E.K. Mean’s Skeeter Butts
"During the winter of 1776, in one of the most incredible logistical feats of the Revolutionary War, Henry Knox and his teamsters transported cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston to help drive Brit
This reference book describes literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have contin
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Profiles of and reading lists for 100 of today's most popular nonfiction authors have been gathered together in this affordable, single source reference, which covers representatives from all major n
A collection of author profiles and information will help students learn about some of the most successful writers of our time--their personal and writing histories and what they've written.
The book focuses on writers of the 1990s but also includes 12 classic authors who are still widely read by teens. An affordable alternative to multivolume publications, this book makes a great collect
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The Massachusetts Berkshires have long been a mecca for literary greats from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edith Wharton to Sinclair Lewis and Joan Ackermann. The Green River in Great Barrington insp
