American Writers - Page 3 | Great American Novel

An aspiring writer choosing a college is a lot like a child trying to make a decision in a candy store. Cliched simile aside, the number of colleges…

The world of the writer has always been one of great inequalities: for every hundred slaving waiters who write furtively by night, there’s a…

The hottest literary topic on the ‘Net right now is reaction to Anis Shivani’s article in The Huffington Post, “The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary…

By Kevin Reeves author of s.m.i.l.e. Young writers need models. Early in my apprenticeship my predecessors fed me greatly. Still, I was also…

Russian bard Novella Matveyeva The term bard (Russian: бард bard) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to…

Colonel Henry Inman (1837-1899) - Well known both as an officer in the United States army and an author dealing with subjects of the Western…

While there is no dearth of scholarship on the work of contemporary African American women writers, Nunes emphasizes intertextuality, making…

His first critical and commercial success came in 1935 with the publication of Tortilla Flat, a comedic adventure story about a motley crew of…