Contemporary Novelists.

Third edition. Preface by Walter Allen and Jerome Klinkowitz. An extensive and authoritative reference guide to more than 600 novelists and short story writers. Each entry contains: a biography, full bibliography, locations of manuscript collections, comments by many of the novelists on their own work, followed by a signed essay by one of more than 200 critics. Ex-library copy with markings.. xviii, 750 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. thick 8vo..