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• Amis, Martin

  Born on August 25, 1949, the second son of writer Kingsley Amis and wife Hilary, Martin Amis has long ...

  GAVIN KEULKS

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Barthelme, Donald

  Donald Barthelme (1931–89) is, along with writers such as John Barth and Robert Coover, one of the founders ...

  PATRICK O'DONNELL

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Bowen, Elizabeth

  Born in Dublin in 1899, novelist Elizabeth Bowen died in Kent in 1973; she is buried in Ireland near ...

  MARGARET SCANLAN

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Bukowski, Charles

  Charles Bukowski, author of novels, poetry, short stories, journalism, drama, comic books, travel writing, ...

  TAMAS DOBOZY

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Dixon, Stephen

  Even though he did not publish his first volume of stories until he was 40, Stephen Dixon (b. 1936) is ...

  PATRICK O'DONNELL

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Ferber, Edna

  One of the most popular writers of the first half of the twentieth century, Edna Ferber succeeded in ...

  WILLIAM GLEASON

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Gardner, John

  During a career that spanned over a dozen years, John Gardner went from being one of the most versatile ...

  ROBERT MORACE

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• Paley, Grace

  Revered as one of the most important and widely taught short story writers of the post-World War II era, ...

  PATRICK O'DONNELL

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• The Publishing Industry and Fiction

  Two interconnected processes fundamentally reshaped English-language literary publishing during the twentieth ...

  SARAH BROUILLETTE

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

• The Publishing Industry: The Rise of the Paperback

  The paperback book is an intrinsically twentieth-century literary and publishing phenomenon, and the ...

  CLAIRE SQUIRES

  From The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

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