Wagner: 1357 books

Book cover of Understanding John Guare
by William W. Demastes, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of...
Book cover of Understanding John Updike
by Frederic Svoboda, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932–2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit,...
Book cover of Understanding Lee Smith
by Danielle N. Johnson, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

Since the release of her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, in 1968, Lee Smith has published nearly twenty books, including novels, short stories, and memoirs. She has received an O. Henry Award, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, and a Reader’s Digest...
Book cover of Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston
by Julia H. Lee, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explore the history, experience, and identity of Chinese Americans. This is exemplified in her first book, The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, a bestseller,...
Book cover of Understanding Colson Whitehead
by Derek C. Maus, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

Although 2002 MacArthur Fellowship recipient Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C. Maus argues in this volume that Whitehead’s first six books are linked by a careful balance between adherence to and violation of the wisdom of past generations. Whitehead...
Book cover of Understanding Etheridge Knight
by Michael S. Collins, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931–1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison sentence, to publish five volumes of poetry...
Book cover of Understanding Adrienne Rich
by Jeannette E. Riley, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize, to the National Book Award, to the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In Understanding Adrienne Rich, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Rich’s...
Book cover of Understanding Randall Kenan
by James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times...
Book cover of Understanding Richard Russo
by Kathleen Drowne, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014

Understanding Richard Russo explores the significant themes and patterns in this contemporary American author’s seven novels, a memoir, and two short story collections, including the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls. Known for assembling large casts of eccentric characters and sweeping...
Book cover of Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
by Douglas Keesey, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the New York Times best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan favorite, Palahniuk has been loathed and loved in equal measure for his dark humor, edgy topics,...
Book cover of Understanding Francisco Goldman
by Ariana E. Vigil, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

Award-winning writer and journalist Francisco Goldman is the author of novels and works of nonfiction and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. His awards include the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the T. R. Fyvel Book Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born to a Guatemalan...
Book cover of Understanding James Baldwin
by Marc Dudley, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation...
Book cover of Understanding Alice Adams
by Bryant Mangum, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum examines the thematic intricacies and astute social commentary of Adams’s eleven novels and five short story collections. Throughout her career Adams was known for creating and re-creating the “Alice Adams woman,” who is bright, honest, attractive,...
Book cover of Understanding Marge Piercy
by Donna M. Bickford, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019

Grounded in feminism, political activism, and Jewish spirituality, Marge Piercy’s work includes more than thirty volumes of poetry, as well as fiction written over nearly five decades. Her poetry fuses political, domestic, and autobiographical spheres with imagery drawn from nature, sensual and...
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