American Women Writers A Biographical Dictionary

American Women Writers profiles more than 150 women whose works span four centuries & have greatly influenced American writing. The chosen writers represent those who have significantly added to our collection of literature--from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice. These women illustrate a great diversity in the time periods during which they lived, their genres & writing styles, & their subject matters. Each profile features an in-depth examination of its subject's biography, literary & personal influences, & a discussion of each writer's major works. A section at the end of each profile lists sources for further reading. Among the writers profiled are: * Mary Rowlandson, whose account of her captivity by Indians displayed the horrors of colonial American wars between colonists & Native Americans & her spiritual journey while in captivity * Harriet A. Jacobs, whose personal slave narrative has become the classic account of the terrors African-American women faced during slavery * Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose book Uncle Tom's Cabin was instrumental in sparking the Civil War * Pearl S. Buck, whose novels of the trials of Chinese peasants earned her the Nobel Prize for Iiterature, making her the first American woman ever to receive that award * Maxine Hong Kingston, whose semiautobio-graphical experimental novels have become classic texts of the Asian-American experience.Kort, Carol is the author of 'American Women Writers A Biographical Dictionary' with ISBN 9780816044344 and ISBN 0816044341.