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Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

  • Columbia University, City College of New York

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The magic barrel
The Fixer
The Assistant
The natural
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Pictures of Fidelman
A new life
Fifty Best American Short Stories
The Situation of the Story
The Best American Short Stories 1973
God's grace
The tenants
Rembrandt's hat
The people, and uncollected stories
Achievements in Fiction
Idiots first
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Fahrenheit 451 and Related Readings
Pygmalion and Related Readings
Dubin's lives
Short stories
The complete stories
Modern Short Stories
The stories of Bernard Malamud
The Fixer, the Natural, the Assistant
Talking Horse
Malamud
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
Two Novels (The Natural / The Assistant)
The Complete Stories
Bernard Malamud
El Hombre De Kiev
El Mejor
Long Work, Short Life (Chapbooks in Literature Series)
The natural
Bernard Malamud
Pluie de printemps
Two fables
The German refugee
Natural
The Assistant (CLIFF NOTES)
Dublins Lives
A New Life
Tu fli dli Ła sluzhanki
Dubin's Lives
The Stories of Bernard Malamud
To Kiev and The last Mohican
Der Gehilfe
Hesed Elohim (Sifriyah la-am)
A Malamud reader
The Assistant (A Signet Book)
The Fixer
2 Novels
Fixer
Der Gehilfe
Schwarz est neine lieblings farbe und andere evzahlungen
A Malamud reader
Benefis
Bernard Malamud Selected Stories
Fixer
Tŭfli dli︠a︡ sluzhanki
De bediende
The magic barrel ; Idiots first
Mourners
The Jewbird and other stories
The Fixer
Schwarz ist meine Lieblingsfarbe
Glass blower of Venice
A Malamud Reader
Short Stories of Bernard Malamud
Meng zhong qing ren
Man in the drawer
Tŭfli dli͡a sluzhanki
Bernard Malamud papers
Xiu li jiang
Le peuple élu
Master
Meng zhong qing ren
Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman (born 1941)

  • Stanford University

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Grayling's song
Catherine, Called Birdy
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
The Midwife's Apprentice
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Matilda Bone
Rodzina
The loud silence of Francine Green
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Literature Guide
Catherine, Lady wider Willen. Sonderausgabe
Alyce und keine andere. Sonderausgabe.
Die Ballade von Lucy Whipple.
Matilda Bone
Matilda Bone
Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
La Balade de Lucy Whipple
Newbery Award Library III
Catherine, Lady wider Willen
Will Sparrow's road
El libro de Catherine/ Catherine, called Birdy
The ballad of Lucy Whipple
Mathilda Bone
El Libro De Catherine (Periscopio (Edebe), 59.)
Le Livre de Catherine
L'Apprentie sage-femme
Grayling's song
Aprendiz De Comadrona/Midwife's Apprentice (Nomadas, 3)
Dàt nooit!
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki (born 1956)

film director, bhikkhunī, television director, television producer

  • Smith College, Nara Women's University

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A Tale for the Time Being
My Year of Meats
All over creation
The face
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Beef
Click
Mon épouse américaine
Moi︠a︡ ryba budet zhitʹ
Inside and other short fiction
Timecode of a Face
Shi guang de bi an
Alles opnieuw
Geschichte für einen Augenblick
Il Libro della Forma e del Vuoto
Glimmer Train Stories, #66
Scrolling Forward, Second Edition
Benim Baligim Yasayacak
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020)

  • University of New Mexico

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Lord of the Dawn
Bless Me, Ultima
Curse of the ChupaCabra
First Tortilla
Alburquerque
Jemez Spring (Sonny Baca Mysteries)
My Land Sings
Heart of Aztlan
The Santero's Miracle
Zia Summer
Jalamanta
Querencia
Rudolfo Anaya
Aztlán
Bénissez-moi, Ultima
Sonnenzeichen
Owl in a Straw Hat
Farolitos of Christmas, The
New Mexico Christmas Story
Tortuga
Jemez Spring
Sous le soleil de Zia
Randy Lopez Goes Home
ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid
Essays
Sorrows of Young Alfonso
Serafina's Stories
Sonny Baca Novels
Bendíceme, Ultima
How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico
Rio Grande Fall
The Blue Mesa Review 1492-1992 (Number 4)
Shaman Winter
Jalamanta
Alburquerque
Zia Summer
The First Tortilla
Autobiography
No More Bullies!/¡No Más Bullies : Owl in a Straw Hat 2
Tortuga
Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories
Anaya Reader
My Land Sings
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949)

playwright, essayist, gardener

  • Franconia College, Princess Margaret School

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Autobiographie de ma mère
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
A small place
Annie John
World Literature 1999
See Now Then
Talk stories
Mr. Potter
My Garden (Book)
Among Flowers
The best American essays 1999
Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, and Tulip
Wish You Well with Connections
Lucy. Roman
My Favorite Plant
Mi Hermano
The best American travel writing 2005
Au Fond de la rivière
The Bridge of Beyond
My Favorite Tool
The Best American Essays 1995 (Best American Essays)
Down the Garden Path
Nur eine kleine Insel
El meu germà
Party
Annie John
Any John
Gone to New York
Annie John/at the Bottom of the River/Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid Interview with Kay Bonetti
Die Autobiographie Meiner Mutter
Poetics of Place
Untitled Novel on Early Life in New York
Small Place (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Party
My Brother
Ahora y entonces
Garden Futures
My Garden (Book)
Mr. Potter
One small island in the Caribbean (Korean edition)
Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Un lugar pequeño
Un pequeño lugar
See Now Then
My Favorite Plant
Annie John (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
At the Bottom of the River
Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz (born 1972)

lecturer

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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The dragon lantern
The monster war
Refugee
Something wicked
Samurai shortstop
Starfleet Academy - The Assassination Game
Prisoner B-3087
The Brooklyn nine
Something Rotten
Allies
Ground Zero
Grenade
Fantasy baseball
Projekt 1065
Code of honor
Projekt 1065
Ban this book
The League of Seven
Resist
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé (1934-2024)

playwright, literary scholar

  • Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

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Who slashed Celanire's throat?
Célanire cou-coupé
Tree of life
Windward heights
I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem
A season in Rihata
Crossing the Mangrove
The last of the African kings
Tales from the heart
La civilisation du bossale
Hérémakhonon
Ségou
Le coeur à rire et à pleurer
En attendant le bonheur
Victoire
Land of many colors
Conversations with Maryse Condé
Segou Vol. 3
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Segou
Desirada
Penser la créolité
The Story of the Cannibal Woman
Pays mêlé
La parole des femmes
Who slashed Celanire's throat?
Comme deux frères
The children of Segu
Ségou
En attendant la montée des eaux
The children of Segu
Hugo le terrible (French Edition)
Le ceur a rire et a pleurer
Les Murailles de Terre, 1 vol
Haïti chérie
Conte Cruel
La vie scélérate
Le cœur à rire et à pleurer
Entretiens avec Maryse Condé
Sturminsel
tits Rêves amers
The Children of Segu
Nouvelles d'Amérique
Le Coeur A Rire Et A Pleurer
Insel der Vergangenheit
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
Les belles ténébreuses
Hai ti che rie
Se gou
Pension les alizés
La colonie du nouveau monde
Célanire cou-coupé
De Watergodin
La migration des cœurs
Barlovento
The Morne of Massabielle
La belle Créole
La colonie du nouveau monde
Tales from the heart
Segou I De Aarden Wallen
Pays mêlé
La Belle et la Bête
En attendant la montée des eaux
Dieu nous l'a donné ..
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Cesaire
Mort d'Oluwémi d'Ajumako
Stadt, Gemeinde, Genossenschaft
Pension les alizés
An tan revolisyon
Wie Spreu im Wind
Travessa del manglar
Travessa del manglar
Le coeur à rire et à pleurer: contes vrais de mon enfance
La migration des coeurs
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)

librarian, poet, playwright, poet lawyer, lawyer

  • Yale University, Harvard Law School

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
J.B
The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II
The wild old wicked man
Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907 to 1982
Riders on the Earth
A continuing journey
New & collected poems, 1917-1976
Poems
Six plays
Scratch
Three short plays
Poetry and experience
J.B
The dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren
The fall of the city
Herakles
J.B.
A time to act
The great American Fourth of July parade
Poetry and opinion
New & collected poems, 1917-1976
Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre
Nobodaddy
The Eleanor Roosevelt story
Archibald MacLeish
Public speech
Champion of a cause
Poetry and experience
The human season
Conquistador
Herakles
Songs for Eve
Land of the free
Mr. Wilson and the Nation's need
Air raid
Panic
The American story
A time to speak
Conquistador
In honor of a man and an ideal..
Poems, 1924-1933
New and Collected Poems
Remarks at the dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
A brief English literature,
The pot of earth
Text of the address by Archibald MacLeish ..
To face the real crisis
Poetry and Journalism
Tower of Ivory
Tower of ivory
Actfive, and other poems
Address by Archibald MacLeish at a dinner of Pour la Victorie, October 15, 1942
Collected poems, 1917-1982
Public speech
New and collected poems, 1917-1976
America was promises
The next Harvard, as seen by Archibald MacLeish
J.B
The American experience
Nueva York. 1001 Ideas para conocer la ciudad
The American cause
The irresponsibles
Streets in the moon
Scratch
Freedom is the right to choose
J. B. a Play in Verse
Essential Emerson CD
The next Harvard
The alternative
Collected poems, 1917-1982
Poetry and experience
This music crept by me upon the waters
Libraries in the contemporary crisis
La experiencia americana
The Fall of the City
Time to Act
Archibald MacLeish
Collected poems
Panic
Housing America
J.B.
"J. B."
JB
American Opinion and the War
A Continuing Journey
Declaration of faith
Background of war
Yeats and the belief in life
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren
The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
Elemente der Lyrik
Night watch in the city of Boston
Public Speech
Poetry and Experience
Collected poems
Commencement address before the graduating class of Sarah Lawrence College, May 28, 1943
The Trojan Horse
Act Five and Other Poems
Poèmes choisis
Robert Frost One Hundred
Poems 1924 1933
Emily Dickinson
'The Wild Old Wicked Man' and Other Poems
Entre el silencio y el rumor del mar
The collected poems of Archibald MacLeish
Collected poems
Actfive [sic] and other poems
Interrogate the stones
Land of the free--U.S.A
Poetry and Experience
Poetry and Opinion
This music crept by me upon the waters
PANIC A play in verse
The silence
Poetry and opinion : the Pisan cantos of Ezra Pound
J.B.
The Collected Poems Of Archibald Macleish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Education and Self-Reliance
The power of the spoken word
Poems, 1924-1933
New found land
The wild old wicked man, & other poems
Freedom Is the Right To Choose
Scratch
Figures of Dead Men
Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn
An interview with Archibald MacLeish
An evening's journey to Conway, Massachusetts
Einstein
American opinion & the war
The love of this land
Art education and the creative process
Next Harvard
Air raid
The happy marriage, and other poems
The Wild Old Wicked Man And Other Poems
Jews in America
Wild Old Wicked Man & Other Poems. [Hardcover] by MACLEISH, Archibald
Panic. A Play in Verse.
Class poem 1915
On the beaches of the moon
Air raid, a verse play for radio,
Air Raid; a Verse for Radio
Before March
Archibald Macleish Reads His Poetry (Swc 1009)
Three Short Plays
J.B. : a play in verse
Conquistador
New found land, fourteen poems
This music crept by me upon the waters
Time to Speak
Conquistador
At the Lincoln Memorial
The Trojan horse
A free man's books
NOBODADDY - A Play
The Collected Poems Of Archibald MacLeish
The American cause
'The Wild Old Wicked Man' and Other Poems
Reorganization of the Library of Congress, 1939-44,
Collected poems
Air raid, a verse play for radio
Actfive And Other Poems
Public speech
Songs for Eve
Scratch. A NEW Play (A PLAY SUGGESTED BY STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S SHORT STORY"THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER", ORIGINALLY PRODUCED ON THE BROADWAY STAGE BY STUART OSTROW)
America was promises
Songs for a summer's day
October Calf
Collected poems 1917-1952
Poetry and experience
America was promises
Air Raid
American letter for Gerald Murphy
J. B. ; a Play in Verse
The Wild Old Wicked Man
The American story
A Continuing Journey
Poetry and journalism
The Bill of Rights now
Prophets of doom
Air raid,
A time to act
Lincoln in this day
Irresponsibles a Declaration
Herakles
Collected poems, 1917-1982
America was promises
Love of This Land
Poems, 1924-1933 .
Los irresponsables
The American story
In Honor of a Man and an Ideal ... Three Talks on Freedom
The irresponsibles
Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's city
Poetry and experience
The irresponsibles
FREEDOM IS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE An Inquiry Into the Battle for the American Future
Poetry and Experience
Land of the Free
Streets in the moon
Collected poems, 1917-1952
Scratch
Let freedom ring
Panic
Anchor dragging
The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
The American story
Jews in America
Before March
Libraries in the contemporary crisis
Actfive, and other poems
The Jefferson bicentennial
The Free company presents ... The states talking
America was promises
The silence
Poetry and opinion
American was promises
J.B.
Brief amicus curiae
The great American frustration
A continuing journey
Los comuneros
A time to speak
Beikoku sangyōkai ni okeru Yudayajin no seiryoku
Poems
The irresponsibles
A free man's books
"J. B."
The next Harvard, as seen by Archibald MacLeish
A Slavic center for the Library of Congress
The fall of the city
The human season
Three Short Plays
Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965
Poetry and experience
Songs for Eve
The Fourteenth Cosmos Club award--Archibald MacLeish, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1977
Night watch in the city of Boston
The Eleanor Roosevelt story
New York
Collected poems
Best American plays
The pot of earth
Archibald MacLeish reading from his works
Heaven and earth and the cage of form
The reorganization of the Library of Congress, 1939-44
Los comuneros
Remarks of Mr. Archibald MacLeish