Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American ...

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Walter Dean Myers, preeminent author of teen fiction biography and verse, refines the image of black characters that are frequently trivialized or ...

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With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman , award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following ...

In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller ...

Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang , and His Illegal Self , is one of Australia's ...

This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens ...

This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots, humor, symbols, philosophies, and classic ...