Description v. in ; 29 cm. Note The 4-vol. main set consists of 97 of the pamphlets originally published 1961-1972 as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; some have been rev. and updated. The supplements cover writers not included in the original series. The retrospective supplements update the essays reviewed in the first four volumes to include new information and changing methods of criticism. Supplement 2- have editor in chief, A. Walton Litz ; Retrospective suppl. 1, c1998, was edited by A. Walton Litz & Molly Weigel. Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index. Subjects American literature -- History and criticism. American literature -- Bio-bibliography. Authors, American -- Biography. Other Author Unger, Leonard. Litz, A. Walton. Weigel, Molly. Other Title University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Contents v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot -- v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers -- v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana -- v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright -- Retrospective suppl. I -- Retrospective suppl. II -- Suppl. 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier. -- Suppl. 1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie. -- Suppl. 2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry. -- Suppl. 2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winters. -- Suppl. 3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy. -- Suppl. 3, pt. 2. Philiop Roth to Louis Zukofsky -- Suppl. 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. -- Suppl. 4, pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal. -- Suppl. 5. Russell Banks to Charles Wright. -- Suppl. 6. Don DeLillo to W.D. Snodgrass. -- Suppl. 7. Julia Alvarez to Tobias Wolff. -- Suppl. 8. T.C. Boyle to August Wilson and cumulative index. Suppl. 9. Nelson Algren to David Wagoner. Suppl. 10. Madison Bell to John Wideman -- Suppl. 11. Toni Cade Bambara to Richard Yates -- Suppl. 12. Kathy Acker to Richard Russo -- Suppl. 13. Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith -- Suppl. 14. Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith -- Suppl. 15. Woody Allen to C.D. Wright -- Suppl. 16. John James Audubon to Gustaf Sobin -- Suppl. 17. Max Apple to Franz Wright. ISBN 0684197855 (set) 0684136627 OCLC # 1041142 1296349 10856665 24875916 LCCN 73001759 //r963 Orig. Rec# TRUMANAAB6997