Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1999

Provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children's books as well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature.

Plan of the Series

xiv

Foreword

xvi

Acknowledgments

xvii

The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature: Gunter Grass

3

(23)

Sigrid Mayer

The Year in Fiction

26

(16)

George Garrett

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished Novel Published in 1999

42

(1)

George Garrett

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished First Novel Published in 1999

43

(1)

George Garrett

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished Volume of Short Stories Published in 1999

44

(1)

George Garrett

The Year in Literary Biography

45

(15)

Catherine D. Holmes

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished Literary Biography Published in 1999

60

(1)

Catherine D. Holmes

The Year in Poetry

61

(11)

John E. Lane

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished Volume of Poetry Published in 1999

72

(2)

John E. Lane

The Year in Children's Books

74

(13)

Caroline Hunt

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for a Distinguished Children's Book Published in 1999

87

(2)

Caroline Hunt

The Publishing Industry in 1999

89

(4)

Michael L. Lazare

The Year in British Fiction

93

(18)

Merritt Moseley

The Year in British Drama

111

(9)

Arnold Wengrow

Joseph Heller

120

(9)

James Meredith

Remembering Joe Heller

William Price Fox

A Tribute to Joseph Heller

Frederick R. Karl

George V. Higgins

129

(16)

Paul C. Doherty

Tributes

Lord Gowrie

Ashbel Green

Ward Just

Michael L. Lazare

Jack Macrae

John Silber

At End of Day: The Last George V. Higgins Novel

145

(3)

George Garrett

``What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round''

148

(3)

George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins to Julian Symons

151

(3)

Paul Frederic Bowles

154

(13)

Virginia Spencer Carr

George Frederick Sims

167

(3)

David J. Holmes

William Gaddis: A Tribute

170

(3)

Peter Dempsey

The Harry Potter Phenomenon

173

(7)

Philip Nel

The Literary Scene and Situation and...Who (Besides Oprah) Really Runs American Literature?

180

(8)

George Garrett

A Summing Up at Century's End

188

(5)

George Garrett

Oral History: B. W. Huebsch

193

(27)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli

Interview with Patrick O'Connor

220

(20)

Michael Avallone

240

(2)

Patrick O'Connor

Interview with George Plimpton

242

(4)

Come to Papa

246

(3)

Michael Rogers

The Hemingway Centenary Celebration at the JFK Library

249

(4)

Stephen Plotkin

The Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library

253

(10)

Stephen Plotkin

Not Immediately Discernible...but Eventually Quite Clear: The First Light and Final Years of Hemingway's Centenary

263

(5)

Albert J. DeFazio III

A Literary Archaeologist Digs On: A Brief Interview with Michael Reynolds

268

(2)

Michael Rogers

Hemingway in the JFK

270

(3)

Michael Reynolds

Ernest Hemingway: A Centennial Celebration

273

(2)

Albert C. Labriola

John Dos Passos: Artist

275

(4)

Richard Layman

Interview with Humphrey Carpenter

279

(10)

Interview with Michael Holroyd

289

(6)

Eudora Welty's Ninetieth Birthday

295

(4)

Mary Jo Tate

Eudora Welty Newsletter

299

(2)

Pearl A. McHaney

The Reality of One Woman's Dream: The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection

301

(5)

Dee Jones

Interview with Patricia Schroeder

306

(8)

The Association of American Publishers

314

(5)

Judith Platt

University Press of Mississippi

319

(4)

Steve Yates

The Dylan Thomas Celebration

323

(3)

Joanna Furber

The Christopher Isherwood Archive, The Huntington Library

326

(3)

Sara S. Hodson

F. Scott Fitzgerald Inducted into the American Poets' Corner at St. John the Divine; Ezra Pound Banned

329

(3)

Michael Rogers

Western Writers of America

332

(2)

R. C. House

Literary Societies

334

(47)

Literary Research Archives IX: Special Collections at Boston University

381

(8)

D. L. Silverstone

Joseph and George

389

(3)

Annual Awards for Dictionary of Literary Biography Editors and Contributors

392

(1)

Literary Awards and Honors Announced in 1999

393

(8)

Necrology

401

(2)

Checklist: Contributions to Literary History and Biography

403

(8)

Contributors

411

(4)

Cumulative Index

415

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