UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Matthew J. Bruccoli, Founding Editor

Linda Wagner-Martin, Series Editor

Volumes on

Edward Albee | Sherman Alexie | Nelson Algren | Paul Auster

Nicholson Baker | John Barth | Donald Barthelme | The Beats

Thomas Berger | The Black Mountain Poets | Robert Bly | T. C. Boyle

Truman Capote | Raymond Carver | Michael Chabon | Fred Chappell

Chicano Literature | Contemporary American Drama

Contemporary American Horror Fiction

Contemporary American Literary Theory

Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1926–1970

Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1970–2000

Contemporary Chicana Literature | Pat Conroy | Robert Coover | Don DeLillo

Philip K. Dick | James Dickey | E. L. Doctorow | Rita Dove | Dave Eggers

Louise Erdrich | John Gardner | George Garrett | Tim Gautreaux | William Gibson

John Hawkes | Joseph Heller | Lillian Hellman | Beth Henley | James Leo Herlihy

David Henry Hwang | John Irving | Randall Jarrell | Gish Jen | Charles Johnson

Diane Johnson | Edward P. Jones | Adrienne Kennedy | William Kennedy | Jack Kerouac

Jamaica Kincaid | Etheridge Knight | Tony Kushner | Ursula K. Le Guin

Jonathan Lethem | Denise Levertov | Bernard Malamud | David Mamet

Bobbie Ann Mason | Colum McCann | Cormac McCarthy | Jill McCorkle

Carson McCullers | W. S. Merwin | Arthur Miller | Stephen Millhauser | Lorrie Moore

Toni Morrison’s Fiction | Vladimir Nabokov | Gloria Naylor | Joyce Carol Oates

Tim O’Brien | Flannery O’Connor | Cynthia Ozick | Chuck Palahniuk

Suzan-Lori Parks | Walker Percy | Katherine Anne Porter | Richard Powers

Reynolds Price | Annie Proulx | Thomas Pynchon | Ron Rash | Adrienne Rich

Theodore Roethke | Philip Roth | Richard Russo | May Sarton | Hubert Selby, Jr.

Mary Lee Settle | Sam Shepard | Neil Simon | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Jane Smiley

Gary Snyder | William Stafford | Robert Stone | Anne Tyler | Gerald Vizenor

Kurt Vonnegut | David Foster Wallace | Robert Penn Warren | James Welch

Eudora Welty | Edmund White | Colson Whitehead | Tennessee Williams

August Wilson | Charles Wright