Biographies of books : the compositional histories of notable American writings /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barbour, James, 1933-, Quirk, Tom, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Composition of Nature : writing and the self in the launching of a career / Albert Von Frank
  • "Well my book is written--let it go. . ." : the making of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Howard G. Baetzhold
  • Unsmiling aspects of life : A Hazard of New Fortunes / John W. Crowley
  • "Quite the best, "All Round", of all my productions" : the multiple versions of the Jamesian Germ for The Ambassadors / Richard A. Hocks
  • "There was something mystic about it" : the composition of Sister Carrie by Dreiser et al / Richard W. Dowell
  • Building The House of Mirth / Candance Waid
  • "A truly American book" : pressing The Grapes of Wrath / Robert DeMott
  • Making of Delta Wedding, or doing "something Diarmuid thought I could do" / Albert J. Devlin
  • Early composition history of Catch-22 / James Nagel
  • Western American context of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Stephen L. Tanner.