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REFERENCE
REF 810.9 DRE
Drew, Bernard A. The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors.
REF 920.873 AMEv.1
Unger, Leonard. American writers : a collection of literary biographies.
REF 920.873 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley and Haycraft, Howard. American authors, 1600-1900 : a
biographical dictionary of American literature.
REF 920.8 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley. Twentieth century authors.
REF 920.8 KUN
Wakeman, John and Kunitz, Stanley. World authors, 1950-1970 : a companion volume
to Twentieth century authors.
REF 920.8 MAG
Magill, Frank Northen. Cyclopedia of world authors. New York, Harper, [1958].
REF 920.3 MOD
Showalter, Elaine. Modern American women writers.
REF 920.873 AME
American writers : a collection of literary biographies.
REF 809.04 SEY
Seymour, Patrick. The Literary Almanac : the best of the printed word, 1900
to
the present
REF 920.873 AME RSUP I
Litz, Walton A. and Molly Weigel, general editors. American Writers: a collection
of literary biographies. retrospective supplement I.
CIRCULATING
808.81 A
Adoff, Arnold. The poetry of Black America : anthology of the 20th century.
810.9 PEC Vol.1&2
American Ethnic Writers
810.9 WRI
Sternburg, Janet. The Writer on her work.
811.08 Bon
Bontemps, Arna Wendell. Golden slippers : an anthology of Negro poetry for young
readers.
820 GIL
Gubar, Susan. The Norton anthology of literature by women : the tradition in
English.
808.8 HOR
Hornstein, Percy. The Reader's companion to world literature
808.81 BOO
A Book of women poets from antiquity to now.
808.81 COS
Wilbur, Richard. The Penguin book of women poets.
811.009 DRA
Drake, William. The first wave : women poets in America, 1915-1945.
808.76 HAY
Hayden, Robert Earl and Lapides, Frederick R. Afro-American literature : an
introduction..
808.83
Watanabe, Sylvia. Home to stay : Asian American women's fiction.
920.72 WRI
Conway, Jill K. Written by herself : autobiographies of American women : an
anthology.
305.4 AME
American women : their lives in their words.
920.72 WRI
Cahill, Susan, ed. and introduction. Writing women's lives : an anthology of
autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American women writers.
810.9 TAT
Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work.
810.8 GRE
Green, Rayna ed. That's What She Said\:contemporary poetry and fiction by Native
American women.
811.5 NIA
Niatum, Duane. Anthology of 20th-century Native American Poetry.
810.8 RIL
Riley, Patricia; Editor. Growing Up Native American: An Anthology.
810.9 Dav
Davidson, Marshall B. The American heritage history of the writers' America.
808.819 SCH
Watts Writers' Workshop and Schulberg, Budd. From the ashes : voices of Watts.
810.9 RUS
Russell, Sandi. Render me my song : African American women writers from slavery
to the present.
920.72 WRI
Cahill, Susan, ed. and introduction. Writing women's lives : an anthology of
autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American women writers :
an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American
women writers].
810.9 TAT
Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work.
810.8 SHO
Shockley, Ann Allen, Editor. Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933: an
anthology and critical guide.
920 KRU
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Writers.
810.9 PEC V.1
American Ethnic Writers, Volume 1
810.9 PEC V.2
American Ethnic Writers, Volume 2
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