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Title First words [electronic resource] / collected and edited by Paul Mandelbaum.
Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Alogonguin Books of Chapel Hill, c2000.
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Edition Rev. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 241 p.) : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241).
Contents Margaret Atwood -- Roy Blount, Jr. -- Paul Bowles -- Pat Conroy -- Michael Crichton -- Rita Dove -- Clyde Edgerton -- Gail Godwin -- Allan Gurganus -- Charles Johnson -- Stephen King -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Jill McCorkle -- Norman Mailer -- Joyce Carol Oates -- William Styron -- Amy Tan -- John Upkike -- Gore Vidal -- Tobias Wolff.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Note digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Description based on print version record.
Summary "Early writings from 22 favorite contemporary authors ... and part of a mystery novel by John Updike, age 14 ... a fascinating revelation of young creative minds at work, wrestling with early versions of ideas that were to take hold of their writings in later years." -- cover.
Subject American literature -- 20th century.
Youths' writings, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
Genre Electronic books.
Subject 1900 - 1999
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Youths' writings, American. (OCoLC)fst01183698
Added Author Mandelbaum, Paul, 1959-
Freading.
Related To Print version: First words. Rev. ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Alogonguin Books of Chapel Hill, c2000 (DLC) 99086208 (OCoLC)43286946
ISBN 9781565127364 (electronic bk.)
1565127366 (electronic bk.)