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Title:

Biographies of books : the compositional histories of notable American writings / edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

334 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Criticism, Textual.
Literary form.

Other Authors:

Barbour, James, 1933-
Quirk, Tom, 1946-

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

"There was something mystic about it" : the composition of Sister Carrie by Dreiser et al / Richard W. Dowell. "Well my book is written--let it go. . ." : the making of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Howard G. Baetzhold -- Unsmiling aspects of life : A Hazard of New Fortunes / John W. Crowley -- "Quite the best, "All Round", of all my productions" : the multiple versions of the Jamesian Germ for The Ambassadors / Richard A. Hocks -- "There was something mystic about it" : the composition of Sister Carrie by Dreiser et al / Richard W. Dowell.
Western American context of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Stephen L. Tanner. "A truly American book" : pressing The Grapes of Wrath / Robert DeMott -- Making of Delta Wedding, or doing "something Diarmuid thought I could do" / Albert J. Devlin -- Early composition history of Catch-22 / James Nagel -- Western American context of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Stephen L. Tanner.

ISBN:

9780826210449 (cloth : alk. paper)
0826210449 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33161530

LCCN:

95040987

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

V5AX173 -- Kaplan University-Mason City Campus (Mason City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)