Dictionary of Literary Biography: Yearbook: 1984

Front Cover
Jean 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
Copyright

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