American Writers, Supplement IV

The thirty-five essays in this fourth supplement maintain the original goals of the series: providing—for students in secondary and advanced education, librarians, scholars, critics, and teachers—a comprehensive treatment of the work and life of each author.
In fact, Supplement IV is distinguished by a table of contents that includes writers and critics as diverse as Joan Didion and Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles and Neil Simon, Donald Barthelme and E. L. Doctorow, Mary Gordon and Joseph Heller, Ayn Rand and Wallace Stegner.