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Chapters: Stephen King, Woody Allen, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Alice Walker, Saul Bellow, Frederick Buechner, Louise Erdrich, the Devil and Daniel Webster, Joyce Carol Oates, Guy Davenport, Raymond Carver, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gordon Lish, A. S. Byatt, O. Henry Award, James Gould Cozzens, Kay Boyle, Denis Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Lorrie Moore, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Rick Bass, John Edgar Wideman, Jane Smiley, Cornelia Nixon, Joyce Johnson, Cynthia Ozick, Harold Brodkey, W. R. Burnett, Bessie Breuer, Thom Jones, Albert Maltz, Reginald Mcknight, Matthew Klam, Maureen Daly, Steve Heller, Murad Kalam, Lawrence Sargent Hall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 304. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. He published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificity. He wrote on average a book a year. Updike populated his fiction with characters who "frequently experience per...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15824 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Louise Erdrich, Louis L'amour, William H. Gass, Maxwell Anderson, Eric Sevareid, James M. Mcpherson, Marcus Borg, Chuck Klosterman, Peter Schjeldahl, Thomas Mcgrath, Larry Woiwode, Era Bell Thompson, Jennie Shortridge, Lucy Johnston Sypher, Edward K. Thompson, Clark Blaise, Peter Brandvold, Larry Watson, Aagot Raaen, Roland Flint, Rich Karlgaard. Excerpt:Aagot Raaen (December 3, 1873 - January 7, 1957) was an American author and educator. Background Aagot Raaen was born in Iowa . Her parents, Thomas Raaen and Ragnhild Rodningen, were immigrants from Norway . The family moved to Dakota Territory to establish a homestead, settling near Hatton, North Dakota . In 1903, Raaen graduated from the Mayville State Normal School, now Mayville State University . In 1913, she graduated from the University of Minnesota . Educator Raaen taught at rural schools in North Dakota as well as at the Oak Grove Seminary Oak Grove Lutheran School in Fargo, North Dakota . From 1917 to 1922, Aagot was the Superintendent of Schools in Steele County, North Dakota . Author Raaen authored several historical articles and books including the 1950 autobiographic work Grass of the Earth: immigrant life in the Dakota country. Through a description of the life of her family during their homesteading days, Raaen detailed pioneer life on the prairie. Selected Works Papers The papers of Aagot Raaen are contained within the North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies: References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Chuck Klosterman Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972) is an American journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine , The Believer , and The Washington Post , and has written books focusing on American popular culture ... ... Read more

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Like many contemporary Native Americanwriters, Louise Erdrich has created a hybrid of traditional story and novel closely connected to her literary sense of mixed-bloodedness,which constitues a fundamental characteristic of the contemporary Native American novel. Erdrich writes what we might term her works as "the mixed-blood narrative" in which, like mixed-blood culture,her texts occupy, in terms of subject matter and formal qualities, the margin between purely traditional Native American modes of representation and those modes common in European American culture. The present book distinguishes itself by the exploration of the literary experimentation of hybridization techniques adopted by Louise Erdrich. The four perspectives, i.e. narration, religion, myth and gender, are put forth to conduct a comparatively comprehensive study of hybridization techniques in Erdrich, which play different roles in the formation of Native literary and cultural identity and resistance of the dominant white discourse. ... Read more

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Chapters: Louise Erdrich, Gavin Macleod, Winona Laduke, Leonard Peltier, Peter Jones, Kechewaishke, Nahnebahwequa, Gerald Vizenor, Ted Nolan, Norval Morrisseau, Chris Simon, Edmonia Lewis, Carl Beam, Jeff Weise, James Bartleman, Jerry Fontaine, Jim Northrup, Charlie Leduff, Basil H. Johnston, George Morrison, Michael Forest, Crystal Shawanda, Reggie Leach, David B. Williams, Wayne Keon, Jack Fiddler, Chief Bender, Brandon Nolan, Barry Tabobondung, Lee Francis, Yellow Head, Francis Pegahmagabow, Walter Bresette, Mildred Noble, Kineubenae, Vernon Bellecourt, Biauswah, Dudley George, John Okemos, Michel Cadotte, Rob Capriccioso, Thomas Little Shell, Johnson W. Greybuffalo, Bernard Walter Brisbois, William Whipple Warren, Ozhaguscodaywayquay, Patrick Desjarlait, Tuhbenahneequay, Waubojeeg, Beautifying Bird, Wabanquot, Chief Shakopee, Peter Edmund Jones, Alfred Michael "Chief" Venne, Kevin R. Shores, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, John Jones, Thomas Edwards-Seymour, Shingabawossin, Eddy Cobiness, Drew Hayden Taylor, Maude Kegg, David W. Anderson, David Treuer, Albert Lee Ferris, Zheewegonab, John Cameron, George Copway, Robert Lilligren, Chief Chouneau, Hanging Cloud, E. Donald Two-Rivers, John Chabot, Benjamin Chee Chee, Sam George, Al Hackner, Carole Lafavor, Rod Michano, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Waawaate Fobister, Adam Fortunate Eagle, Mamongazeda, Abe Kakepetum, Wainchemahdub, Loma Lyns, Tom Whitecloud, Peter Marksman, Shingwauk, Beshekee, Elaine Fleming, Shaw-Shaw-Way-Nay-Beece, Keith Secola, Aysh-Ke-Bah-Ke-Ko-Zhay, Wahbanosay, Delbert Riley, Wasson, Tagwagane, Barbara Wardlaw, Jean O'brien, Medweganoonind, Andaigweos, Bauzhi-Geezhig-Waeshikum, Chief Earth Woman, Wosso, Wawatam, Donna Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 421. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 Ju...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5365289 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 220 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more