Contemporary Novelists of the English Language

Contemporary Novelists, edited by James Vinson, with a preface by Walter Allen, published by St. Martin's Press, 1973, stated second printing, 1,442 pages.600 novelists are included. Each entry contains a biography, full bibliography, details of other published bibliographies, and the locations of manuscript collections, a listing of critical studies the novelists themselves consider important, as well as a signed essay by one of more than 200 English American and Commonwealth critics.