Joel Myerson

George Parker Anderson

Julie B. Anderson

Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.

A Documentary Volume

Walt Whitman

Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Provides resources for a fuller understanding of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. It assembles and organizes evidence not otherwise available in one place, allowing readers to more fully comprehend reading this masterpiece. Discusses the impact of Fitzgerald's drinking during the time he worked on this novel, and the final version in which he re-ordered the story in straight chronological order that was posthumously published in 1951.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night

Essays on authors whose lives span the twentieth century and serve as examples in the complex evolution of an immensely popular genre that has been greatly affected by market forces. Their careers and works reveal changing perspectives on crime and punishment in American society and culture.

George Parker Anderson

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