Product Details

• Published on: 1995-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9?Biographical sketches of 30 prominent American writers, all of whom completed their major work before 1960. The fairly standard list of authors includes poets (Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson); novelists (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain); playwrights (Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill); essayists (Ralph Waldo Emerson); and children's authors (Louisa May Alcott, E.B. White). Written in a lively, informal style, the profiles are 8-11 pages in length and contain interesting highlights and good-quality, black-and-white photographs and reproductions. While information on just about all of these literary giants is readily available elsewhere, this user-friendly resource provides a good introduction to the individuals and their works.?Marilyn Makowski, Greenwood High School, SC
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 5^-9. From the publisher's Great Lives series, this volume presents 10-page biographies of 30 significant American writers. The broad topic breaks down into three periods: Early, which includes Longfellow, Melville, and Poe; Middle, with Alcott, Dickinson, and Twain; and Modern, with Hemingway, Frost, and Hughes. Each clearly written entry consists of a straightforward account of the writer's life and career, illustrated with a few black-and-white photographs, paintings, or engravings. Young researchers will find this a useful and quite readable resource. Carolyn Phelan

Ingram
Profiles thirty of the greatest writers in American literature, including poets Langston Hughes and Emily Dickenson, novelists Herman Melville and Ernest Hemingway, and playwright Tennessee Williams.