Understanding Contemporary American Literature

Matthew J. Bruccoli, Founding Editor

Linda Wagner-Martin, Series Editor

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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 | Robert Coover | Don DeLillo

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

John Gardner | George Garrett | Tim Gautreaux | John Hawkes

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

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

Diane Johnson | Adrienne Kennedy | William Kennedy | Jack Kerouac

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

Denise Levertov | Bernard Malamud | David Mamet | Bobbie Ann Mason

Colum McCann | Cormac McCarthy | Jill McCorkle | Carson McCullers

W. S. Merwin | Arthur Miller | Steven Millhauser | Lorrie Moore

Toni Morrison’s Fiction | Vladimir Nabokov | Gloria Naylor

Joyce Carol Oates | Tim O’Brien | Flannery O’Connor | Cynthia Ozick

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

Reynolds Price | Annie Proulx | Thomas Pynchon | 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 | Colson Whitehead

Tennessee Williams | August Wilson | Charles Wright