Dictionary of Literary Biography: Yearbook: 1984Jean W. Ross Gale Research Company, 1985 - 358 pages |
Contents
Nobel Prize in Literature | 3 |
Biographical Documents I | 16 |
An Opinion Poll | 32 |
An Assessment | 38 |
Whats Really Wrong With Bestseller Lists | 44 |
The Orwell Year | 52 |
The Modern Language Association of America Celebrates Its Centennial | 63 |
The Ingersoll Prizes | 70 |
Liam OFlaherty 18961984 | 187 |
Irwin Shaw 19131984 | 194 |
Jesse Stuart 19061984 | 200 |
Jessamyn West 19021984 | 208 |
James Gould Cozzens 19031978 | 219 |
Mary Antin 18811949 | 225 |
Raymond Carver 1938 | 233 |
James Crumley 1939 | 245 |
A Contemporary Renaissance | 79 |
Jargon Society | 88 |
An Interview with Humphrey Carpenter | 103 |
The Lilly Library | 109 |
The Year in Literary Biography | 116 |
The Year in Drama | 126 |
The Year in Poetry | 132 |
The Year in Fiction | 144 |
John Betjeman 19061984 | 163 |
Truman Capote 19241984 | 169 |
Alfred A Knopf 18921984 | 175 |
Julian Mayfield 19281984 | 181 |
Mark Dintenfass 1941 | 254 |
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald 19001948 | 262 |
Rose Franken 1895? | 280 |
Ella Leffland 1931 | 286 |
Jack Lindsay 1900 | 294 |
Marsha Norman 1947 | 308 |
Frederick Lewis Seidel 1936 | 317 |
Peter Straub 1943 | 323 |
Lewis Turco 1934 | 331 |
Literary Awards and Honors Announced in 1984 | 339 |
Necrology | 349 |
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