Series:

Writers of English: Lives & Works

12 total works

Cover of Modern Mystery Writers
Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on thirteen significant mystery writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, including Margery Allingham, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ngaio Marsh, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, and Josephine Tey.

Cover of Classic Fantasy Writers

Classic Fantasy Writers

by Prof. Harold Bloom

Published 1 January 1994

Cover of Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers
Covers the writings of Samuel R. Delany, Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker.

Cover of Modern Fantasy Writers

Modern Fantasy Writers

by Prof. Harold Bloom

Published 1 January 1995
Looks at the writings of fifteen significant fantasy writers of the mid-twentieth century, including Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis.

Cover of Classic Mystery Writers

Classic Mystery Writers

by Prof. Harold Bloom

Published 1 October 1994
G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Roberts Rinehart

Cover of Classic Crime and Suspense Writers
-- Covers more than 1,400 of the most important authors who write in English-- Ranges from the author of Beowulf to present-day writers-- Includes writers in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-- Each volume covers approximately 12 authors and includes a concise biography, a selection of critical extracts, and a complete and up-to-date bibliography of the author's separate publications

Cover of Classic Horror Writers

Classic Horror Writers

by Prof. Harold Bloom

Published 1 December 1993
Offers brief profiles of Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Edgar Allan Poe, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker.

Cover of Modern Horror Writers
-- Covers more than 1,400 of the most important authors who write in English -- Ranges from the author of Beowulf to present-day writers -- Includes writers in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Each volume covers approximately 12 authors and includes a concise biography, a selection of critical extracts, and a complete and up-to-date bibliography of the author's separate publications

Cover of Black American Women Poets and Dramatists
Provides biographies, critical extracts, and bibliographies for seventeen African American women writers.

Cover of Major Black American Writers
-- Covers more than 1,400 of the most important authors who write in English
-- Ranges from the author of Beowulf to present-day writers
-- Includes writers in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
-- Each volume covers approximately 12 authors and includes a concise biography, a selection of critical extracts, and a complete and up-to-date bibliography of the author's separate publications

Cover of Modern Black American Fiction Writers
-- Covers more than 1,400 of the most important authors who write in English -- Ranges from the author of Beowulf to present-day writers -- Includes writers in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Each volume covers approximately 12 authors and includes a concise biography, a selection of critical extracts, and a complete and up-to-date bibliography of the author's separate publications

Cover of Classic Science Fiction Writers
Examines the science fiction writings of Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, and H.G. Wells.