Title Contemporary American women fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin

Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002

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Description xiii, 407 pages ; 26 cm Contents Introduction / Laurie Champion -- Alice Adams (1926-1999) / Julie S. Amberg -- Julia Alvarez (1950- ) / J. Elizabeth Clark -- Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) / Catherine Cucinella -- Andrea Barrett (1965- ) / Ernest Smith -- Ann Beattie (1947- ) / Claudia Milstead -- Judy Blume (1938- ) / Austin Booth -- Rita Mae Brown (1944- ) / Roxanne Harde -- Ana Castillo (1953- ) / Laurie Champion -- Denise Chavez (1948- ) / Beverly G. Six -- Alice Childress (1920-1994) / Joelle Biele -- Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) / Joy Castro -- J. California Cooper (19??- ) / Michelle L. Taylor -- Ellen Douglas (Josephine Ayres Haxton) (1921- ) / Elizabeth J. Wright -- Louise Erdrich (1954- ) / Ann Engar -- Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) / Robert Johnson -- Kaye Gibbons (1960- ) / Elizabeth J. Wright -- Gail Godwin (1937- ) / Lynn Domina -- Mary Gordon (1949- ) / Cheryl D. Bohde -- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1938- ) / Kristin Brunnemer -- Shelby Hearon (1931- ) / Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay -- Amy Hempel (1951- ) / Rhonda Cawthorn -- Linda Hogan (1947- ) / Ellen L. Arnold -- Mary Hood (1946- ) / Angela Laflen -- Josephine Humphreys (1945- ) / Bill Clem -- Gish Jen (1956- ) / Cora Agatucci -- Diane Johnson (1934- ) / Stephanie Brown -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) / Michelle L. Taylor -- Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) / Sharon Hileman -- Nanci Kincaid (1950- ) / Deborah Maltby -- Barbara Kingsolver (1955- ) / Lisa Abney -- Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston (1940- ) / Sharon Hileman -- Harper Lee (1926- ) / Catherine Cucinella -- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) / Kate K. Davis -- Beverly Lowry (1938- ) / Stephanie Gordon -- Paule Marshall (1929- ) / Michelle L. Taylor -- Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- ) / Laurie Champion -- Jill McCorkle (1958- ) / Suzanne Disheroon-Green -- Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) / Roy Flannagan -- Colleen Johnson McElroy (1935- ) / James L. Hill -- Terry McMillan (1951- ) / Suzanne Disheroon-Green -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Gloria Naylor (1950- ) / Chris Ruiz-Velasco -- Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) / Mona M. Choucair -- Tillie Olsen (1912 or 1913- ) / Ernest Smith -- Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) / Laurie Champion -- Grace (Goodside) Paley (1922- ) / Lisa Maria Burgess Noudehou -- Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay -- Ann Petry (1908-1997) / Michelle L. Taylor -- Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) / Andrea Adolph -- Francine Prose (1947- ) / J. P. Steed -- Marilynne Robinson (1944- ) / Catherine Rainwater -- Mary Robison (1949- ) / Cynthia Whitney Hallett -- Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) / Catherine Rainwater -- Jane Smiley (1949- ) / Jesse Cohn -- Lee Smith (1944- ) / Cathy Downs -- Elizabeth Ann Tallent (1954- ) / Laurie Champion -- Amy Tan (1952- ) / Carman C. Curton -- Melanie Rae Thon (1957- ) / Kate K. Davis -- Anne Tyler (1941- ) / Donna Buchanan Cook -- Alice Walker (1944- ) / Lisa Abney -- Joy Williams (1944- ) / J. Elizabeth Clark Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-393) and index Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Dictionaries. American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries. Women novelists, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries. American fiction -- Women authors -- Dictionaries. American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries. Genre/Form Dictionaries. Biographies. Bibliographies. Author Champion, Laurie. Austin, Rhonda. LC no. 2002067825 ISBN 0313316279 alkaline paper

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