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Volume 1. The American Renaissance in New England

 * Jacob Abbott, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, William Andrus Alcott, Washington Allston, Delia Bacon, George Bancroft, John Bartlett, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, Catherine Esther Beecher, Francis Bowen, Charles Timothy Brooks, Orestes Augustus Brownson, George Henry Calvert, Edward Tyrrell Channing, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing II, William Henry Channing, Ednah Dow (Littlehale) Cheney, Francis James Child, Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, Moncure Daniel Conway, Christopher Pearse Cranch, George William Curtis, Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Lynde Dix, Frederick Douglass, John Sullivan Dwight, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Cornelius Conway Felton, James Thomas Fields, Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen, Convers Francis, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Ossoli, William Henry Furness, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Horatio Greenough, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Isaac Thomas Hecker, Frederic Henry Hedge, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Richard Hildreth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Johnson, Sylvester Judd, Charles Lane, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, George Perkins Marsh, James Marsh (philosopher), Donald Grant Mitchell, John Lothrop Motley, John Neal, Charles King Newcomb, Mary Sargeant (Neal) Gove Nichols, Andrews Norton, Charles Eliot Norton, John Gorham Palfrey, Theodore Parker, Francis Parkman, Jr., Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, William Hickling Prescott, Sampson Reed, George Ripley, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Benjamin Penhallow Shilaber, Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith, Seba Smith, Jared Sparks, William Wetmore Story, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, George Ticknor, Jones Very, William Ware, David Atwood Wasson, Noah Webster, John Weiss, Charles Stearns Wheeler, Edwin Percy Whipple, Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joseph Emerson Worcester.

Volume 2. American Novelists since World War II, First Series

 * James Rufus Agee, Louis Auchincloss, James Baldwin, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Thomas Berger, Vance Bourjaily, Ray Bradbury, Richard Brautigan, William Seward Burroughs, Hortense Calisher, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Robert Coover, Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, Ralph Ellison, Irvin Faust, Shelby Foote, William Price Fox, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, Ernest J. Gaines, John Gardner, George Garrett, William Gass, Herbert Gold, William Goyen, Shirley Ann Grau, Mark Harris, John Hawkes, Joseph Heller, George V. Higgins, Chester Himes, James Jones, Erica Jong, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Jerzy Kosinski, Alison Lurie, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Thomas McGuane, Larry McMurtry, Kenneth Millar, Steven Millhauser, Wright Morris, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Gil Orlovitz, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price, James Purdy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Hubert Selby, Jr., Susan Sontag, Terry Southern, Jean Stafford, William Styron, Harvey Swados, Paul Theroux, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Edward Lewis Wallant, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, John A. Williams, Calder Willingham, Jr., Richard Yates

Volume 3. Antebellum Writers in New York & the South

 * Timothy Shay Arthur, Joseph Glover Baldwin, Henry Ward Beecher, Park Benjamin, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Anne C. Lynch Botta, Charles Frederick Briggs, Albert Brisbane, William Wells Brown, William Cullen Bryant, John C. Calhoun, William Alexander Caruthers, Thomas Holley Chivers, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Esten Cooke, Philip Pendleton Cooke, James Fenimore Cooper, David Crockett, Charles A. Dana, James D. B. De Bow, Evert A. Duyckinck, George L. Duyckinck, William Elliott, Caroline H. Gilman, Parke Godwin, William J. Grayson, Horace Greeley, Rufus Griswold, Fitz-Greene Halleck, George Washington Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Caroline Lee Hentz, Henry William Herbert, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Johnson Jones Hooper, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Washington Irving, John Pendleton Kennedy, Caroline Kirkland, Hugh Swinton Legare, James M. Legare, Henry Clay Lewis, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Cornelius Mathews, O. B. Mayer, Alexander Beaufort Meek, Herman Melville, James Kirke Paulding, Edgar Allan Poe, William T. Porter, George Palmer Putnam, Anna Mowatt Ritchie, William Gilmore Simms, Ann Stephens, David Hunter Strother, Bayard Taylor, John R. Thompson, William Tappan Thompson, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Henry Timrod, George Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Susan B. Warner, Walt Whitman, Richard Henry Wilde, Nathaniel Parker Willis

Volume 4. American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939

 * Margaret Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Nathan Asch, Wambly Bald, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Stephen Vincent Benet, William Bird, John Peale Bishop, Kay Boyle, William Aspenwall Bradley, Louis Bromfield, Bob Brown, Edgar Calmer, Kathleen Cannell, Robert M. Coates, Emily Holmes Coleman, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby, Homer Croy, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle (H. D.), John Dos Passos, Ralph Cheever Dunning, James T. Farrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, John Gould Fletcher, Charles Henri Ford, Michael Fraenkel, Ralph Jules Frantz, Krebs Friend, Virgil Geddes, A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr., Florence Gilliam, Caroline Gordon, Julien Green, Ramon Guthrie, Erskine Gwynne, Ernest Hemingway, John Herrmann, Langston Hughes, Bravig Imbs, Eugene Jolas, Matthew Josephson, Jed Kiley, Manuel Komroff, Alfred Kreymborg, Al Laney, Edwin Lanham, Richard Le Gallienne, Ludwig Lewisohn, A. J. Liebling, Harold Loeb, Walter Lowenfels, Mina Loy, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Macleod, Sherry Mangan, Robert McAlmon, Claude McKay, Henry Miller, Arthur Moss, Peter Neagoe, Anais Nin, Elliot Paul, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Samuel Putnam, Elmer Rice, Waverley Root, Robert Sage, Harold J. Salemson, William Seabrook, William L. Shirer, Solita Solano, Harold E. Stearns, Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Donald Ogden Stewart, Allen Tate, Richard Thoma, John Thomas, James Thurber, Edward William Titus, Alice B. Toklas, Laurence Vail, Carl Van Vechten, Ernest Walsh, Glenway Wescott, Nathanael West, Edith Wharton, Monroe Wheeler, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams.

Volume 5. American Poets since World War II, First Series (Part 1: A-K, Part 2: L-Z)

 * Part 1. A-K ; A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Coleman Barks, Ben Belitt, Marvin Bell, Michael Benedikt, Stephen Berg, Daniel Berrigan, Ted Berrigan, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, Charles Boer, Edgar Bowers, Paul Bowles, Richard Brautigan, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Broughton, Charles Bukowski, Hayden Carruth, Michael Casey, John Ciardi, Lucille Clifton, Cid Corman, Gregory Corso, Louis Coxe, Robert Creeley, J. V. Cunningham, Peter Davison (poet), James Dickey, William Dickey, R. H. W. Dillard, Diane DiPrima, Edward Dorn, Alan Dugan, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Forché, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovanni, Louise Glück, Barbara Guest, John Haines, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Anthony Hecht, William Heyen, Sandra Hochman, Daniel Hoffman, John Hollander, Edwin Honig, Richard Howard, Andrew Hoyem, Richard Hugo, David Ignatow, Erica Jong, Robert Kelly, X. J. Kennedy, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Peter Klappert, Kenneth Koch, Maxine Kumin
 * Part 2. L-Z ; Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, John Logan, Robert Lowell, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), William Matthews, Peter Meinke, William Meredith, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Howard Nemerov, John Frederick Nims, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O'Hara, Mary Oliver, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Joel Oppenheimer, Gil Orlovitz, Guy Owen, Robert Pack, Ron Padgett, Linda Pastan, Sylvia Plath, Stanley Plumly, David Ray, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, M. L. Rosenthal, Jerome Rothenberg, James Schuyler, Anne Sexton, Louis Simpson, L. E. Sissman, David Slavitt, Dave Smith, William Jay Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jack Spicer, William Stafford, Ann Stanford, Mark Strand, May Swenson, James Tate, Henry Taylor, John Updike, Mona Van Duyn, Peter Viereck, David Wagoner, Diane Wakoski, Theodore Weiss, Reed Whittemore, Richard Wilbur, Peter Wild, Nancy Willard, C. K. Williams, Jonathan Williams, James Wright, Paul Zimmer, Louis Zukofsky.

Volume 6. American Novelists since World War II, Second Series

 * Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Paul Bowles, Janet Burroway, Frederick Busch, R.V. Cassill, Fred Chappell, Eleanor Clark, Pat Conroy, John William Corrington, Harry Crews, Borden Deal, Nicholas Delbanco, Don DeLillo, Peter De Vries, J.P. Donleavy, William Eastlake, Jesse Hill Ford, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Ben Greer, Davis Grubb, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Earl Hamner, Barry Hannah, Elizabeth Hardwick, John Hersey, Edward Hoagland, William Humphrey, John Irving, Shirley Jackson, John Knowles, Tom Lea, Harper Lee, Andrew Lytle, David Madden, Frederick Manfred, D. Keith Mano, Jack Matthews, Peter Matthiessen, Cormac McCarthy, James A. Michener, Marion Montgomery, Berry Morgan, Toni Morrison, Howard Nemerov, Josephine Pinckney, Sylvia Plath, Charles Portis, Mario Puzo, Judith Rossner, Budd Schulberg, Mary Lee Settle, Irwin Shaw, Wilfred Sheed, Isaac Bashevis Singer, David Slavitt, Elizabeth Spencer, Mark Steadman, Hollis Summers, Anne Tyler, Gore Vidal, Alice Walker, Joseph Wambaugh, Jessamyn West, Joan Williams, John E. Williams, Wirt Williams, Donald Windham, Larry Woiwode

Volume 7. Twentieth-Century American Dramatists (Part 1: A-J, Part 2: K-Z)

 * Part 1: A-J. Edward Albee, Maxwell Anderson, Robert Anderson, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Philip Barry, S.N. Behrman, David Belasco, Ed Bullins, Paddy Chayefsky, Alice Childress, Marc Connelly, Michael Cristofer, Rachel Crothers, Mart Crowley, Ossie Davis, Lonne Elder III, T.S. Eliot, Jules Feiffer, William Clyde Fitch, Maria Irene Fornes, Richard France, Jack Gelber, William Gibson, Susan Glaspell, Dick Goldberg, Charles Gordone, Paul Green, John Guare, Lorraine Hansberry, Moss Hart, John Hawkes, Ben Hecht, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, Israel Horovitz, Sidney Howard, Langston Hughes, William Inge, Preston Jones
 * Part II. K-Z Garson Kanin, George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Kopit, Charles MacArthur, Archibald MacLeish, David Mamet, Carson McCullers, Terrence McNally, Mark Medoff, Arthur Miller, Jason Milller, Langdon Mitchell, William Vaughn Moody, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, John Patrick, David Rabe, Elmer Rice, Jack Richardson, Howard Sackler, William Saroyan, Edward Sheldon, Sam Shepard, Robert Sherwood, Neil Simon, Laurence Stallings, David Starkweather, John Steinbeck, Megan Terry, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Douglas Turner Ward, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, Paul Zindel

Volume 8. Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

 * Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., James Blish, Anthony Boucher, John Boyd, Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fredric Brown, A.J. Budrys, Edgar Rice Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, John W. Campbell, Jr., Hal Clement, Ray Cummings, Avram Davidson, L. Sprague de Camp, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Thomas M. Disch, George Alec Effinger, Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Jack Finney, Hugo Gernsback, David Gerrold, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Joe Haldeman, Edmond Hamilton, Charles L. Harness, Harry Harrison, Robert A. Heinlein, Zenna Henderson, Frank Herbert, Damon Knight, C.M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner, R.A. Lafferty, Keith Laumer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Jack London, John D. MacDonald, Katherine Anne MacLean, Barry N. Malzberg, Richard Matheson, Anne McCaffrey, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Catherine L. Moore, Ward Moore, Larry Niven, William F. Nolan, Andre Norton, Alan E. Nourse, Chad Oliver, Edgar Pangborn, Alexei Panshin, H. Beam Piper, Frederik Pohl, Mack Reynolds, Joanna Russ, Fred Saberhagen, Pamela Sargent, James H. Schmitz, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. Smith, George O. Smith, Norman Spinrad, George R. Stewart, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, James Tiptree, Jr., Jack Vance, A.E. van Vogt, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Stanley Grauman Weinbaum, Kate Wilhelm, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, George Zebrowski, Roger Zelazny (names in this vol not yet checked)
 * Appendix I: Trends in science fiction. The new wave ; Science fantasy
 * Appendix II: The media of science fiction. The iconography of science-fiction art ; Paperback science fiction ; Science-fiction films
 * Appendix III: Fandom and SFWA. Science-fiction fandom and conventions ; Science-fiction fanzines: the time binders ; Science Fiction Writers of America and the Nebula Award ; Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards.

Volume 9. American Novelists, 1910-1945 (Part 1: Adamic-Fisher, Part 2: Fitzgerald-Rolvaag, Part 3: Sandoz-Young)

 * Part 1. Louis Adamic, Conrad Aiken, Nelson Algren, Hervey Allen, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Ayer Barnes, John Peale Bishop, Maxwell Bodenheim, James Boyd, Thomas Boyd, Kay Boyle, Louis Bromfield, Pearl S. Buck, W.R. Burnett, James Branch Cabell, Abraham Cahan, Erskine Caldwell, Robert Cantwell, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Willa Cather, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Robert M. Coates, Thomas B. Costain, James Gould Cozzens, Clyde Brion Davis, H.L. Davis, Floyd Dell, August Derleth, Bernard De Voto, Pietro Di Donato, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Walter D. Edmonds, John Erskine, James T. Farrell, Howard Fast, William Faulkner, Kenneth Fearing, Edna Ferber, Rachel Field, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Vardis Fisher
 * Part 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Martin Flavin, Michael Foster, John Fox, Jr., Waldo Frank, Daniel Fuchs, Zona Gale, Paul Gallico, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Michael Gold, Caroline Gordon, Paul Green, Zane Grey, Albert Halper, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Herbst, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Herrick, DuBose Heyward, Emerson Hough, Mary Johnston, Mackinlay Kantor, Edith Summers Kelley, Oliver La Farge, Meyer Levin, Sinclair Lewis, Ludwig Lewisohn, William March, John P. Marquand, Horace McCoy, Caroline Miller, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Christopher Morley, Robert Nathan, John G. Neihardt, Charles Nordhoff, Charles G. Norris, John O'Hara, Julia Peterkin, David Graham Phillips, Ernest Poole, Eleanor H. Porter, Katherine Anne Porter, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Conrad Richter, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Kenneth Roberts, O.E. Rölvaag
 * Part 3. Mari Sandoz, William Saroyan, Evelyn Scott, Henry A. Shute, Upton Sinclair, Elsie Singmaster, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, James Still, T.S. Stribling, Jesse Stuart, Ruth Suckow, Albert Payson Terhune, B. Traven, Carl Van Vechten, Glenway Wescott, Nathanael West, Edith Wharton, William Allen White, Thornton Wilder, Harry Leon Wilson, Margaret Wilson, Owen Wister, Thomas Wolfe, Harold Bell Wright, Elinor Wylie, Philip Wylie, Stark Young
 * Part 3 Appendices: Overview of U.S. book publishing, 1910-1945; Southern writers between the Wars; The proletarian novel; American fiction and the 1930s; Tough-guy literature; Pulitzer Prizes for the novel, 1917-1945; Fiction best-sellers, 1910-1945; Main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1926-1945; Movies from books, 1920-1974.

Volume 10. Modern British Dramatists, 1900 to 1945

 * Part 1: A-L. William Archer, W. H. Auden, Harley Granville Barker, James M. Barrie, Clifford Bax, Arnold Bennett, Gordon Bottomley, James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor), Harold Brighouse, Gilbert Cannan, Paul Vincent Carroll, Charles Haddon Chambers, G. K. Chesterton, Austin Clarke, Joseph Conrad, Noel Coward, Louis D'Alton, Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton), Gordon Daviot, John Drinkwater, Ashley Dukes, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, T. S. Eliot, St. John Greer Ervine, James Elroy Flecker, John Galsworthy, Walter Greenwood, Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory, Cicely Hamilton, Patrick Hamilton, St. John Hankin, Alan Patrick Herbert, Stanley Houghton, Laurence Housman, N. C. Hunter, Jerome K. Jerome, Denis Johnston, Henry Arthur Jones, James Joyce, Edward Knoblock, D. H. Lawrence, Frederick Lonsdale
 * Part 2: M-Z. Brinsley MacNamara, Louis MacNeice, Edward Martyn, John Masefield, W. Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, Allan Monkhouse, George Moore, Gilbert Murray, Sean O'Casey, Stephen Phillips, Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Wing Pinero, J. B. Priestley, Lennox Robinson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Mordaunt Shairp, Bernard Shaw, Robert Cedric Sherriff, George Shiels, Dodie Smith, Alfred Sutro, John Millington Synge, Ben Travers, John van Druten, Sutton Vane, Oscar Wilde, Emlyn Williams, William Butler Yeats, Israel Zangwill

Volume 11. American Humorists, 1800-1950 (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

 * Part 1. A-L. George Ade, Joseph Glover Baldwin, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, John Brougham, Charles Farrar Browne, Gelett Burgess, Charles Heber Clark, Irvin S. Cobb, David Crockett, Will Cuppy, T. A. Daly, Charles A. Davis, Clarence Day, George Horatio Derby, Finley Peter Dunne, William Faulkner, Corey Ford, Montague Glass, Asa Greene, Milt Gross, Arthur Guiterman, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Marion Hargrove, George Washington Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Samuel Hoffenstein, Marietta Holley, Johnson Jones Hooper, Kin Hubbard, Washington Irving, Arthur Kober, Ring Lardner, Charles G. Leland, Charles B. Lewis, David Ross Locke, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Anita Loos, James Russell Lowell
 * Part 2. M-Z. Don Marquis, Phyllis McGinley, H. L. Mencken, Ogden Nash, Joseph C. Neal, Robert Henry Newell, C. F. M. Noland, Bill Nye, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Will Rogers, Leo Rosten, Damon Runyon, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, Max Shulman, Charles Henry Smith, H. Allen Smith, Seba Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Edward Streeter, Frank Sullivan, William Tappan Thompson, Mortimer Thomson, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Frances Miriam Whitcher, E. B. White

Volume 12. American Realists & Naturalists

 * Henry Adams, Edward Bellamy, Ambrose Bierce, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, George Washington Cable, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Rose Terry Cooke, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis, John William De Forest, Ignatius Donnelly, Theodore Dreiser, Edward Eggleston, Harold Frederic, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Henry Blake Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Bret Harte, John Hay, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert Herrick, E. W. Howe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Clarence King, Grace King, Joseph Kirkland, Jack London, Mary N. Murfree, Frank Norris, Thomas Nelson Page, David Graham Phillips, William S. Porter, Frederic Remington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Brand Whitlock, Constance Fenimore Woolson

Volume 13. British Dramatists Since World War II (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

 * Part 1. A-L. John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn, Enid Bagnold, Peter Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Robert Bolt, Edward Bond, John Bowden, Howard Brenton, Wynyard Browne, Agatha Christie, Caryl Churchill, Giles Cooper, David Cregan, Shelagh Delaney, Nigel Dennis, Ronald Duncan, Charles Dyer, David Edgar, Michael Frayn, Brian Friel, Christopher Fry, Pam Gems, Simon Gray, Graham Greene, Trevor Griffths, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Ronald Harwood, William Douglas Home, Ann Jellicoe, John B. Keane, Barrie Keeffe, Bernard Kops, Hugh Leonard, Benn Wolfe Levy, Joan Littlewood, Henry Livings, Peter Luke
 * Part 2. M-Z. Walter Macken, Frank Marcus, David Mercer, John Mortimer, Bill Naughton, Peter Nichols, Joe Orton, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Stephen Poliakoff, Terence Rattigan, David Rudkin, James Saunders, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, Robert Shaw, N. F. Simpson, Tom Stoppard, David Storey, Peter Terson, Dylan Thomas, Peter Ustinov, Keith Waterhouse, Arnold Wesker, John Whiting, Heathcote Williams, Charles Wood

Volume 14. British Novelists since 1960

 * Part 1. A-G. Brian W. Aldiss, Keith Alldritt, A. Alvarez, Martin Amis, Paul Bailey, Beryl Bainbridge, J. G. Ballard, John Banville, A. L. Barker, Stan Barstow, Nina Bawden, David Benedictus, John Berger, Caroline Blackwood, Dirk Bogarde, Malcolm Bradbury, Melvyn Bragg, Christine Brooke-Rose, Jeremy Brooks, Brigid Brophy, Christy Brown, George Mackay Brown, Anthony Burgess, Alan Burns, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Juanita Casey, David Caute, Gerda Charles, Barry Cole, Isabel Colegate, Lionel Davidson, Margaret Thomson Davis, Margaret Drabble, Maureen Duffy, Janice Elliott, J. G. Farrell, Elaine Feinstein, Eva Figes, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, Michael Frayn, Jane Gardam, Penelope Gilliatt, Jacky Gillott, Giles Gordon
 * Part 2. H-Z. Clifford Hanley, Catherine Heath, Aidan Higgins, Susan Hill, Helen Hodgman, Desmond Hogan, David Holbrook, David Hughes, Jim Hunter, Dan Jacobson, Robin Jenkins, B. S. Johnson, Jennifer Johnston, Gabriel Josipovici, Maurice Leitch, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Colin MacInnes, Elizabeth Mavor, Ian McEwan, John McGahern, William McIlvanney, Stanley Middleton, Julian Mitchell, Michael Moorcock, Nicholas Mosley, Helen Muir, Iris Murdoch, John Noone, Robert Nye, Edna O'Brien, Julia O'Faolain, James Plunkett, David Pownall, Christopher Priest, Barbara Pym, Ann Quin, Frederic Raphael, Piers Paul Read, Bernice Rubens, Paul Scott, Tom Sharpe, Robert Shaw, Penelope Shuttle, Alan Sillitoe, Andrew Sinclair, Anthony Storey, David Storey, Emma Tennant, Rosemary Tonks, Rose Tremain, William Trevor, Elizabeth Troop, Frank Tuohy, Auberon Waugh, Fay Weldon, Paul West, Raymond Williams, A. N. Wilson, Colin Wilson

Volume 15. British Novelists, 1930-1959 (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

 * Part 1. A-L. Kingsley Amis, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John Braine, Joyce Cary, C. Day Lewis, Nigel Dennis, Lawrence Durrell, Roy Fuller, Brian Glanville, Oliver St. John Gogarty, William Golding, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Neil M. Gunn, L. P. Hartley, Richard Hughes, Emyr Humphreys, Christopher Isherwood, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Glyn Jones, Gwyn Jones, Lewis Jones, Patrick Kavanagh, Benedict Kiely, Francis King, Mary Lavin, Rosamond Lehmann, Doris Lessing, C. S. Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Llewellyn, Malcolm Lowry, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael McLaverty
 * Part 2. M-Z. James Leslie Mitchell, Nicholas Monsarrat, L. H. Myers, P. H. Newby, Kate O'Brien, Sean O'Faolain, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, Anthony Powell, John Cowper Powys, V. S. Pritchett, C. P. Snow, Muriel Spark, Olaf Stapledon, Gwyn Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, Honor Tracy, Alexander Trocchi, John Wain, Rex Warner, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony West, Angus Wilson

Volume 16. The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

 * Part 1. A-L. Amiri Baraka, Paul Blackburn, Bonnie Bremser, Ray Bremser, Chandler Brossard, William S. Burroughs, Jr., Paul Carroll, Carolyn Cassady, Andy Clausen, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Kirby Doyle, Robert Duncan, Bob Dylan, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, Ted Joans, Lenore Kandel, Bob Kaufman, Jan Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Seymour Krim, Tuli Kupferberg, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Jay Landesman, Fran Landesman, Timothy Leary, Lawrence Lipton
 * Part 2. M-Z. Norman Mailer, Edward Marshall, Joanna McClure, Michael McClure, Taylor Mead, David Meltzer (poet), Jack Micheline, John Montgomery, Harold Norse, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Patchen, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Charles Plymell, Dan Propper, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael Rumaker, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Carl Solomon, Jack Spicer, Charles Upton, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, Alan Watts, Lew Welch, Whalen Philip, John Wieners, William Carlos Williams

Volume 17. Twentieth-Century American Historians

 * James Truslow Adams, Charles M. Andrews, Bernard Bailyn, John Spencer Bassett, Howard K. Beale, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Albert J. Beveridge, Herbert E. Bolton, Daniel J. Boorstin, Claude G. Bowers, Gamaliel Bradford (biographer), Bruce Catton, Edward Channing, Thomas C. Cochran, Henry Steele Commager, Avery Craven, Merle E. Curti, William E. Dodd, David H. Donald, William A. Dunning, Shelby Foote, Douglas Southall Freeman, John A. Garraty, Eugene D. Genovese, Lawrence Henry Gipson, Oscar Handlin, Albert Bushnell Hart, Robert Selph Henry, Richard Hofstadter, J. Franklin Jameson, Merrill Jensen, Arthur S. Link, Dumas Malone, Forrest McDonald, Perry Miller, Edmund S. Morgan, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard B. Morris, Allan Nevins, Roy F. Nichols, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frank L. Owsley, Vernon L. Parrington, Ulrich B. Phillips, David M. Potter, James G. Randall, Carl Sandburg, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Kenneth M. Stampp, Frederick Jackson Turner, Walter Prescott Webb, Bell Irvin Wiley, T. Harry Williams, William Appleman Williams, Carter G. Woodson, C. Vann Woodward, Louis B. Wright

Volume 18. Victorian Novelists after 1885

 * R.D. Blackmore, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Robert Buchanan, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Anthony Froude, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, G. A. Henty, Thomas Hughes, Eliza Lynn Linton, George MacDonald, W.H. Mallock, Henry Mayhew, George Meredith, George Moore, William Morris, John Henry Newman, Laurence Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), James Payn, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), Olive Schreiner, Joseph Henry Shorthouse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mrs. Henry Wood, Charlotte Mary Yonge
 * Appendix. 'Literature at nurse, or circulating morals' / George Moore, From 'The decay of lying' / Oscar Wilde, 'Candour in English fiction' / Thomas Hardy, The present state of the English novel, 1892 / George Saintsbury, 'The place of realism in fiction' / George Gissing, 'The future of the novel' / Henry James

Volume 19. British Poets, 1880-1914

 * Lascelles Abercrombie, AE (George William Russell), Hilaire Belloc, Laurence Binyon, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, Mary Coleridge, Padraic Colum, John Davidson, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Richard Watson Dixon, Charles M. Doughty, Ernest Dowson, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker, F.S. Flint, Wilfrid Gibson, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Thomas Hardy, William Ernest Henley, Ralph Hodgson, A.E. Housman, T.E. Hulme, Lionel Johnson, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, John Masefield, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Harold Monro, T. Sturge Moore, Henry Newbolt, James Stephens, Arthur Symons, John Millington Synge, Edward Thomas, Francis Thompson, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats

Volume 20. British Poets, 1914-1945

 * Richard Aldington, Kenneth Allott, W.H. Auden, George Barker, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Ronald Bottrall, Basil Bunting, Roy Campbell, Austin Clarke, Elizabeth Daryush, C. Day Lewis, William Empson, Roy Fuller, David Gascoyne, W.S. Graham, Robert Graves, David Jones, Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Ledwidge, Alun Lewis, Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve), Louis MacNeice, Edwin Muir, Alfred Noyes, Wilfred Owen, Ruth Pitter, William Plomer, F.T. Prince, Kathleen Raine, Herbert Read, Edgell Rickwood, W.R. Rodgers, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins

Volume 21. Victorian Novelists before 1885

 * William Harrison Ainsworth, George Borrow, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Oliver Madox Brown, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Mortimer Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Juliana Horatia Ewing, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Hannay, Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Lever, Frederick Marryat, Harriet Martineau, Caroline Norton, Charles Read, Mayne Reid, G.W.M. Reynolds, Marmion Savage, Robert Smith Surtees, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Frances Trollope
 * 'On art in fiction' / Edward Bulwer, 'Modern novelists : great and small' / Margaret Oliphant, Criticism in relation to novels / G. H. Lewes, 'Sensation novels' / H. L. Mansel, 'Novels with a purpose' / Justin M'Carthy, From The gay science / E. S. Dallas, 'Novel reading. The works of Charles Dickens ; The works of W. Makepeace Thackeray' / Anthony Trollope

Volume 22. American Writers for Children, 1900-1960

 * Dorothy Aldis, Ralph Henry Barbour, L. Frank Baum, Ludwig Bemelmans, Margaret Wise Brown, Thornton W. Burgess, Virginia Lee Burton, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and Ingri d'Aulaire, Marguerite de Angeli, Walt Disney, Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes, Marie Hall Ets, Walter Farley, Rachel Field, Esther Forbes, Wanda Gág, Howard R. Garis, Doris Gates, Hardie Gramatky, Johnny Gruelle, Marguerite Henry, Dorothy P. Lathrop, Robert Lawson, Lois Lenski, Winsor McCay, Robert McCloskey, Maud Petersham and Miska Petersham, Watty Piper, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, H.A. Rey, Mabel Louise Robinson, Ruth Sawyer, Kate Seredy, Ruth Plumly Thompson, James Thurber, John R. Tunis, Lynd Ward, E.B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

Volume 23. American Newspaper Journalists, 1873-1900

 * Mary Clemmer Ames, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Ambrose Bierce, George W. Childs, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), John A. Cockerill, James Creelman, Jane Cunningham Croly (Jennie June), Charles A. Dana, Richard Harding Davis, Finley Peter Dunne, Eugene Field, Thomas Fitzgerald, T. Thomas Fortune, Harold Frederic, Legh Richmond Freeman, Henry George, Henry W. Grady, Murat Halstead, Joel Chandler Harris, Evan P. Howell, Ansel Nash Kellogg, John Armoy Knox, David Ross Locke, Joseph B. McCullagh, William V. McKean, John R. McLean, William Rockhill Nelson, Crosby S. Noyes, Edgar Wilson Nye (Bill Nye), Oswald Ottendorfer, George W. Peck, Benjamin Perley Poore, Jospeh Pulitzer, Julian Ralph, Opie Read, Whitelaw Reid, Jacob Riis, Carl Schurz, Harvey W. Scott, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Henry Villard, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Horace White, Benjamin Wood

Volume 24. American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734

 * James Alexander, George Alsop, John Barnard, Robert Beverley, Arthur Blackamore, James Blair, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Bray, Thomas Budd, Mather Byles, William Byrd II, Joseph Capen, Charles Chauncy, Ezekiel Cheever, Cadwallader Colden, Benjamin Colman, Ebenezer Cook, John Cotton, John Danforth, Samuel Danforth I, Samuel Danforth II, Daniel Denton, Jonathan Dickinson, William Douglass, Jonathan Edwards, John Eliot, Giles Firmin, John Fiske, William Fitzhugh, John Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ebenezer Gay, Daniel Gookin, John Hammond, Daniel Henchman, Thomas Hooker, William Hubbard, John James, Edward Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Hugh Jones, John Josselyn, Sarah Kemble Knight, John Lawson, Richard Lewis, James Logan, Francis Makemie, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Richard Mather, Jonathan Mitchel, Joshua Moody, Nathaniel Morton, Thomas Morton, John Norton, Nicholas Noyes, Urian Oakes, Philip Pain, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Deuel Pead, William Penn, Thomas Prince, Mary Rowlandson, John Saffin, George Sandys, Joseph Sewall, Samuel Sewall, Thomas Shepard I, Thomas Shepard II, John Smith, Josiah Smith, Richard Steere, James Sterling, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Stone, William Stoughton, Edward Taylor, Benjamin Tompson, Nathaniel Ward, John Wheelwright, Alexander Whitaker, Andrew White, Samuel Whiting, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Willard, Roger Williams, John Wilson (colonial writer), John Winthrop, John Winthrop, Jr., John Wise, Roger Wolcott, William Wood, Benjamin Woodbridge, John Peter Zenger

Volume 25. American Newspaper Journalists, 1901-1925

 * George Ade, Winifred Black, Oliver K. Bovard, Arthur Brisbane, Abraham Cahan, Samuel S. Chamberlain, Frank I. Cobb, Irvin S. Cobb, Elizabeth Cochrane, George Creel, M. H. de Young, Rheta Childe Dorr, Floyd Gibbons, Morrill Goddard, Charles H. Grasty, William Randolph Hearst, Ben Hecht, E. W. Howe, Clark Howell, Sr., Will Irwin, James Keeley, Moses Koenigsberg, Ring Lardner, Victor F. Lawson, Alfred H. Lewis, Charles MacArthur, Bernarr Macfadden, Don Marquis, C. K. McClatchy, W. O. McGeehan, O. O. McIntyre, William L. McLean, Frank A. Munsey, Lucius W. Nieman, Adolph S. Ochs, Fremont Older, Charles Edward Russell, E. W. Scripps, Frank L. Stanton, Melville Stone, Herbert Bayard Swope, Bert Leston Taylor, Charles H. Taylor, Carr Van Anda, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Watterson, William Allen White