Publisher's Synopsis
Each volume in this series concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement, or genre. Individual author entries chronicle each writer's career through a selection of literary documents, including letters, notebook and diary entries, interviews and contemporary book reviews.;Entries are heavily illustrated, furnishing facsimiles of manuscripts and revised galley proofs, title pages and dust jackets, and pictures from the authors' lives.;Authors covered in volume nine include W.D. Ehrhart, Larry Heinemann, Tim O'Brien, Walter McDonald, and John M. Del Vecchio.
