Supplement 2, <4> have editor in chief, A. Walton Litz ; Suppl. <3> edited by Lea Bechler, A. Walton Litz ; Retrospective suppl. 1, c1998, edited by A. Walton Litz & Molly Weigel ; Suppl. 5-<19> and Retrospective suppl. 2 have editor-in-chief, Jay Parini.
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The 4-vol. main set consists of 97 of the pamphlets originally published 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.
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Two different volumes issued as Restrospective supplement II.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Retrospective Supplement 1. Willa Cather / Sharon O'Brien -- Emily Dickinson / Janet Gray -- T. S. Eliot / Ronald Bush -- William Faulkner / David Minter -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / C. K. Doreski -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Evan Carton -- Ernest Hemingway / Scott Donaldson -- Langston Hughes / David Roessel -- Henry James / Daniel Fogel -- Herman Melville / T. Walter Herbert -- Vladimir Nabokov / Michael Wood -- Ezra Pound / A. Walton Litz -- Wallace Stevens / James Longenbach -- John Updike / Dean Flower -- Eudora Welty / Veronica Makowsky -- Edith Wharton / Jeannie Kassanoff -- Walt Whitman / Tenney Nathanson -- William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan --
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Supplement 8. T. C. Boyle ; Joseph Brodsky ; Jim Harrison ; Shelby Hearon ; Oscar Hijuelos ; Alfred Kazin ; Harper Lee ; Bobbie Ann Mason ; William Maxwell ; Cormac McCarthey ; Thomas Merton ; Gloria Naylor ; Norman Podhoretz ; May Sarton ; Charles Simic ; Gary Snyder ; Paul Theroux ; August Wilson --
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Supplement 1. Part 1. Jane Addams / Clarke Chambers -- Louisa May Alcott / Ann Douglas -- James Baldwin / Keneth Kinnamon -- Elizabeth Bishop / John E. Unterecker -- Anne Bradstreet / Cheryl Walker -- Charles Brockden Brown / Emory B. Elliott -- William Cullen Bryant / Donald A. Ringe -- John Cheever / Scott Donaldson -- Kate Chopin / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- M.-G. Jean de Crevecoeur / Chadwick Hansen -- Hilda Doolittle / Peter E. Firchow -- Lillian Hellman / Bernard F. Dick -- Oliver Wendell Holmes / Thomas R. Wortham -- Langston Hughes / Donald C. Dickinson -- Sidney Lanier / Thomas Daniel Young --
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Supplement 1. Part 2. Vachel Lindsay / Jay R. Balderson -- James Russell Lowell / Walter Blair -- Bernard Malamud / Robert Solotaroff -- Edgar Lee Masters / Linda W. Wagner -- Samuel Eliot Morison / David Herold -- Thomas Paine / Michael D. Truej -- Sylvia Plath / Lonna M. Malmsheimer -- Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin -- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul David Johnson -- James Thurber / Robert E. Morsberger -- Thorstein Veblen / John P. Diggins -- E. B. White / Barbara J. Rogers -- John Greenleaf Whittier / John B. Pickard -- Elinor Wylie / Josephine O'Brien Schaefer --
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Supplement 10. Madison Smartt Bell ; Wendell Berry ; Kaye Gibbons ; Anthony He ; James Baldwin ; Saul Bellow ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Kate Chopin ; Hart Crane ; Theodore Dreiser ; Ralph Ellison ; Sarah Orne Jewett ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Robert Lowell ; Norman Mailer ; Flannery O'Connor ; Sylvia Plath ; Edgar Allen Poe ; Adrienne Rich ; Philip Roth ; Isaac Bachevis Singer ; Nathanael West.cht ; Alice Hoffman ; Anne LaBastille ; Thomas McGrath ; Claude McKay ; Paul Monette ; Lorrie Moore ; Anais Nin ; Sharon Olds ; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; Ishmael Reed ; Tom Robbins ; Amy Tan ; David Foster Wallace ; John Edgar Wideman --
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Supplement 11. Toni Cade Bambara ; Frederick Barthelme ; Stephen Vincent Benet ; Michael Chabon ; Wanda Coleman ; Harry Crews ; Mark Doty ; Stephen Dunn ; John Fante ; Cristina Garcia ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; James Jones ; Mary Karr ; Larry Levis ; Paul Marshall ; Terry Southern ; William Stafford ; Richard Yates --
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Supplement 12. Kathy Acker ; Paul Auster ; Frederick Buechner ; Robert Olen Butler ; Peter Cameron ; Anne Carson ; Gregory Corso ; Stephen Dixon ; Leslie Epstein ; Albert Goldbarth ; John Haines ; Joy Harjo ; John Knowles ; J. D. McClatchy ;Frank McCourt ; Sue Miller ; Ann Patchett ; Richard Russo --
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Supplement 13. Edward Abbey ; Margaret Atwood ; Nicholson Baker ; Octavia Butler ; Stephen Dobyns ; Leslie Fiedler ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Lucy Larcom ; Horace McCoy ; Terry McMillan : Terrence McNally ; Pat Mora ; Walter Mosley ; John Nichols ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Tillie Olsen ; Luis Omar Salinas ; William Jay Smtih --
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Supplement 14. Cleanth Brooks ; James Lee Burke ; John Jay Chapman ; Charles W. Chesnutt ; Evan S. Connell ; Joseph Epstein ; Sara Henderson Hay ; Herbert Huncke ; Christopher Isherwood ; Aldo Leopold ; Alain Locke ; Norman Maclean ; David Mamet ; Linda McCarriston ; Charles Reznikoff; Richard Rodriguez ; John Patrick Shanley ; Logan Pearsall Smith --
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Supplement 15. Woody Allen ; Frank Bidart ; Witter Bynner ; Michael Cunningham ; Peter Everwine ; Carol Frost ; Dana Gioia ; Weldon Kees ; X. J. Kennedy ; Kenneth Koch ; Ed Lacy ; Li-Young Lee ; Susanna Rowson ; Gjertrud Schnackenberg ; Elizabeth Stoddard ; Louis Untermeyer ; Wendy Wasserstein ; C. D. Wright --
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Supplement 16. John James Audubon ; Rick Bass ; Carol Bly ; Hayden Carruth ; Frank Conroy ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Theodor Seuss Geisel ; William Gibson ; Chester Himes ; Eva Hoffman ; Garrison Keillor ; Anita Loos ; Leonard Michaels ; Jay Neugeboren ; George Plimpton ; Francine Prose ; Scott Russell Sanders ; Gustaf Sobin --
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Supplement 17. Max Apple ; Charles Baxter ; Linda Bierds ; Melvin Bukiet ; Guy Endore ; Annie Finch ; M. F. K. Fisher ; Hutchins Hapgood ; Mark Jarman ; Brigit Pegeen Kelly ; David Markson ; Willard Motley ; Anna Quindlen ; Joanna Scott ; Gay Talese ; Scott Turow ; William Vollmann ; Franz Wright --
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Supplement 18. Charles Frederick Briggs ; Bob Dylan ; Margaret Edson ; Percival Everett ; William Hoffman ; Ha Jin ; Jon Krakauer ; Nella Larsen ; Jonathan Lethem ; Alice McDermott ; Marilyn Nelson ; Janisse Ray ; Conrad Richter ; Paul William Ryan ; Budd Schulberg ; Susan Warner ; Dorothy West ; Robert Wrigley --
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Supplement 19. David Budbill ; Philip Caputo ; W.S. Di Piero ; Jennifer Egan ; Rudolph Fisher ; Mark Halliday ; Rolando Hinojosa ; Ted Kooser ; Thomas Mallon ; Albert Murray ; Chris Offutt ; Robert B. Parker ; Molly Peacock ; Mark Richard ; George Saunders ; Irwin Shaw ; Harvey Swados ; Bruce Weigl --
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Supplement 2. Part 1. W. H. Auden / Edward Mendelson -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones ) / William C. Fischer -- Joel Barlow / Jeffrey Walker -- R. P. Blackmur / Russell A. Fraser -- Pearl S. Buck / Paul A. Doyle -- Malcolm Cowley / George Core -- W. E. B. Du Bois / Herbert Aptheker -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / Charles T. Davis -- Ralph Ellison / Robert O'Meally -- Philip Freneau / Maureen Goldman -- Margaret Fuller / Bell Gale Chevigny -- Allen Ginsberg / James Mersmann -- Bret Harte / Wilton Eckley -- Robert Hayden / Robert M. Greenberg -- O. Henry / Kent Bales --
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Supplement 2. Part 2. Robinson Jeffers / R. W. Butterfield -- Cotton Mather / Ormond Seavey -- Lewis Mumford / Peter Firchow -- Joyce Carol Oates / Diane Tolomeo -- Clifford Odets / Frank R. Cunningham -- Charles Olson / Maxine Olian Apsel -- Francis Parkman / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Thomas Pynchon / Richard Pearce -- Delmore Schwartz / Paul Breslin -- Anne Sexton / Susan Resneck Parr -- Karl Shapiro / Michael True -- Carl Van Vechten / Bruce Kellner -- Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed -- Yvor Winters / Robert von Hallberg --
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Supplement 20. Mary Antin ; T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Pietro Di Donato ; Timothy Findley ; Waldo Frank ; Jonathan Franzen ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Kahlil Gibran ; Anne Lamott ; Reginald McKnight ; Jim Wayne Miller ; Tova Mirvis ; Floyd Skloot ; Gene Stratton-Porter ; Howard Overing Sturgis ; Leon Uris ; Patricia Nell Warren ; Phillis Wheatley --
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Supplement 21. Neith Boyce ; William Bronk ; Larry Brown ; Billy Collins ; Michael Connelly ; William Virgil Davis ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Amy Hempel ; Lynda Hull ; David Henry Hwang ; C. L. R. James ; Jhumpa Lahiri ; Sam Pickering ; Marilynne Robinson ; Gilbert Sorrentino ; Natasha Trethewey ; Ira Wolfert --
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Supplement 22. Arna Bontemps ; Agnes Boulton ; William Bradford ; Kevin Brockmeier ; Michelle Cliff ; Patricia Hampl ; Larry Heinemann ; Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ; Edward P. Jones ; Mina Loy ; Clarence Major ; Caroline Miller ; Howard Frank Mosher ; Alice Notley ; Anne Rivers Siddons ; Lee Siegel ; Genevieve Taggard ; Laura Ingalls Wilder --
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Supplement 23. Sholem Asch ; Peter Balakian ; Pinckney Benedict ; Barbara Crooker ; Stuart Dybek ; Zee Edgell ; Frederick Exley ; Rachel Hadas ; Jane Hirshfield ; Maurice Kenny ; Meridel Le Sueur ; George Lippard ; Cherrie Moraga ; Frank O'Haa ; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft ; Penelope Scambly Schott ; Betty Smith ; Elizabeth Strout ; Jean Thompson --
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Supplement 24. Pearl Abraham ; Gertrude Atherton ; Ted Berrigan ; Kay Boyle ; William Ellery Channing ; Junot Diaz ; Andre Dubus III ; Christopher Durang ; Jeffrey Eugenides ; David Ferry ; Tess Gallagher ; Gayl Jones ; Miranda July ; Leonard Kriegel ; Ander Monson ; Mari Sandoz ; Nicky Silver ; Hunter S. Thompson --
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Supplement 4. Part 1. Maya Angelou / Mary Jane Lupton -- Louis Auchincloss / Carol Gelderman -- Donald Barthelme / Gwen Crane -- Robert Bly / William V. Davis -- Paul Bowles / Allen Hibbard -- Ray Bradbury / William F. Touponce -- Raymond Chandler / Peter L. Cooper -- Robert Creeley / Bill Piper -- Countee Cullen / Gerald Early -- James Dickey / Ronald Baughman -- Joan Didion / C. K. Doreski -- E. L. Doctorow / Randy Malamud -- Rita Dove / Lesley Wheeler -- Louise Erdrich / Pauline Groetz Woodward -- William Gaddis / William Doreski -- Mary Gordon / Alma Bennett -- Paula Gunn Allen / Lauren Miller with Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Dashiell Hammett / Robert Worth -- Lorraine Hansberry / Steven R. Carter -- Joseph Heller / Sanford Pinsker -- Linda Hogan / Anna Carew-Miller --
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Supplement 4. Part 2. Susan Howe / Molly Weigel -- Maxine Kumin / Steven A. Nardi -- Ross MacDonald / Janet Gray -- N. Scott Momaday / Sally L. Joyce -- Simon J. Ortiz / Patricia Clark Smith -- Ayn Rand / Chris Matthew Sciabarra -- Alberto Alvaro Rios / Adrian Perez Melgosa -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Celeste Goodridge -- Neil Simon / J. Ellen Gainor -- Wallace Stegner / Mark S. Braley -- Mark Strand / Jeffery Donaldson -- May Swenson / Jane Eldridge Miller -- Anne Tyler / Mary Margaret Richards -- Gore Vidal / Jay Parini --
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Supplement 5. Russell Banks ; Ann Beattie ; Robert Coover ; Richard Ford ; Louise Gluck ; A. R. Gurney ; Erica Jong ; Stephen King ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Philip Levine - Peter Matthiessen ; Larry McMurty ; Tim O'Brien ; Cynthia Ozick ; Upton Sinclair; Robert Stone ; Peter Taylor ; Charles Wright --
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Supplement 6. Don Delillo ; Annie Dillard ; Stanley Elkin ; John Gardner ; William Gass Robert Hass ; Irving Howe ; Richard Hugo ; Zora Neale Hurston ; John Irving ; Charles Johnson ; Susan Minot ; Grace Paley ; Robert Pinsky ; Reynolds Price ; Muriel Rukeyser ; Jane Smiley ; W. D. Snodgrass --
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Supplement 7. Julia Alvarez ; A. R. Ammons ; Richard Bausch ; Sandra Cisneros ; Andre Dubus ; Gearge Garrett ; Donald Justice ; William Kennedy ; Jane Kenyon ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Barbara Kingsolver ; Jerzy Kosinski ; Mary Oliver ; Annie Proulx ; James Purdy ; Anne Rice ; Carol Shields ; Tobias Wolff --
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Supplement 9. Nelson Algren ; Rachel Carson ; Amy Clampitt ; Zelda Fitzgerald ; Robert Francis ; William Humphrey ; Shirley Jackson ; Tony Kushner ; William Matthews ; John Mur ; Dorothy Parker ; Richard Powers ; Henry Roth ; James Salter ; Louis Simpson ; Gerald Stern ; Jean Toomer ; David Wagoner --
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v. 1. Henry Adams -- James Agee -- Conrad Aiken -- Edward Albee -- Sherwood Anderson -- John Barth -- Saul Bellow -- John Berryman -- Ambrose Bierce -- Randolph Bourne -- Van Wyck Brooks -- Kenneth Burke -- Erskine Caldwell -- Willa Cather -- James Fenimore Cooper -- James Gould Cozzens -- Hart Crane -- Stephen Crane -- E. E. Cummings -- Emily Dickinson -- John Dos Passos -- Theodore Dreiser -- Richard Eberhart -- Jonathan Edwards -- T. S. Eliot --
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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 -- Supplement[s] : 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier -- 1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie -- 2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry -- 2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winter -- 3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy -- 3, pt. 2. Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and Cumulative index to volumes 1-4 -- Supplements 1,2 and 3 -- Supplement 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan, pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal -- 5. Russell Banks to Charles Wright -- 6. Don Delillo to W.D. Snodgrass -- 7. Julia Alvarez to Tobias Wolff -- 8. T. C. Boyle to August Wilson -- 9. Nelson Algren to David Wagoner -- 10. Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman -- 11. Toni Cade Bambara to Richard Yates -- 12. Kathy Acker to Richard Russo -- 13. Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith -- 14. Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith -- 15. Woody Allen to C. D. Wright -- 16. John James Audubon to Gustav Sobin -- 17. Max Apple to Franz Wright -- 18. Charles Frederick Briggs to Robert Wrigley -- 19. David Budbill to Bruce Weigl -- 20. Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley -- 21. Neith Boyce to Ira Wolfert -- 22. Arna Bontemps to Laura Ingalls Wilder -- 23. Sholem Asch to Jean Thompson -- 24. Pearl Abraham to Hunter S. Thompson --
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v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Benjamin Franklin -- Harold Frederic -- Robert Frost -- Ellen Glasgow -- Caroline Gordon -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ernest Hemingway -- William Dean Howells -- Washington Irving -- Henry James -- William James -- Randall Jarrell -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ring Lardner -- Sinclair Lewis -- Jack London -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Amy Lowell -- Robert Lowell -- Mary McCarthy -- Carson McCullers --
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v. 3. Archibald MacLeish -- Norman Mailer -- John P. Marquand -- Herman Melville -- H. L. Mencken -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Arthur Miller -- Henry Miller -- Marianne Moore -- Wright Morris -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Howard Nemerov -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- Frank Norris -- Flannery O'Connor -- John O'Hara -- Eugene O'Neill -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Ezra Pound -- John Crowe Ransom -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Theodore Roethke -- J. D. Salinger -- Carl Sandburg -- George Santayana --
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v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Gertrude Stein -- John Steinbeck -- Wallace Stevens -- William Styron -- Allen Tate -- Edward Taylor -- Henry David Thoreau -- Mark Twain -- John Updike -- Robert Penn Warren -- Eudora Welty -- Nathanael West -- Edith Wharton -- Walt Whitman -- Thornton Wilder -- Tennessee Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Edmund Wilson -- Thomas Wolfe -- Richard Wright --
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.