Videodisc release of the television documentary series by Centre Communications Inc. Special features: teacher's guide with blackline master quiz; graphics; timeline; gallery of authors; recommended reading lists. Presenter, Jane Kaczmarek.
Contents:
v. 1. Program 1: 1650-1845. Anne Bradstreet. Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley. Washington Irving. James Fenimore Cooper. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edgar Allen Poe -- Program 2: 1846-1855. Henry David Thoreau. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Herman Melville. Emily Dickinson. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frederick Douglass. Walt Whitman. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- v. 2. Program 3: 1856-1906. Louisa May Alcott. Henry James. Mark Twain. Upton Sinclair. Stephen Crane. O. Henry. Willa Cather. Theodore Dreiser. Jack London. Sherwood Anderson -- Program 4: 1907-1925. William Carlos Williams. Carl Sandburg. Edith Wharton. e.e. cummings. Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot. Henry Miller. Robert Frost. F. Scott Fitzgerald -- v. 3. Program 5: 1926-1939. Thomas Wolfe. William Faulkner. Sinclair Lewis. Pearl Buck. Eugene O'Neill. John Steinbeck -- Program 6: 1940-1949. Ernest Hemingway. James Thurber. Robert Heinlein. Ray Bradbury. Isaac Asimov. Tennessee Williams. Arthur Miller -- v. 4. Program 7: 1950-1957. Gwendolyn Brooks. J.D. Salinger. Sylvia Plath. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Jack Kerouac. Dr. Seuss -- Program 8: 1958-Present. Lorraine Hansberry. Joseph Heller. Truman Capote. Kurt Vonnegut. John Updike. Amy Tan. Toni Morrison. Alice Walker. August Wilson. Cormac McCarthy.
Summary:
Presents the lives and literary output of more than 60 of America's most read authors in concise, stand-alone segments presented in chronological order.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.