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Mid and late 20th Century

1968: Scarcity and Decade Analysis

J. K. ROWLING (Joanne Rowling, b. 1965) Criticism: post
The Harry Potter Series: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) Criticism: John Granger review | Harold Bloom review
It is Harry's beautiful courage, I think, that makes this series unique. --Charles Van Doren

Jeanette WINTERSON (b. 1959) Reference: Official site Criticism: post
The Passion (1997)

At some unmarked point during the last twenty years we imperceptibly moved out of the Modern Age and into a new, as yet nameless, era. --Peter F. Drucker, Landmarks of Tomorrow (1957)

Tony KUSHNER (b. 1956) Criticism: post
Angels in America (1991, 1992) Criticism: Donald Lyons review

Michael POLLAN (b. 1955) Reference: Official site
The Botany of Desire (2001)
It is about the concept of what he calls co-evolution, in this case between mankind and four plants--apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. --Charles Van Doren
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) Criticism: Blake Hurst review
What we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world, and he warns that modern agribiz is a destructive, precarious agricultural system that has wrought havoc on the diet, nutrition, and well-being of Americans as well as the inhabitants of the other developed countries of the Earth. --Charles Van Doren

David GROSSMAN (b. 1954) Reference: The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Criticism: post
See Under: Love (1989)

Kevin HART (b. 1954) Etext: Poetry International Web | two poems Criticism: post
Peniel and Other Poems (1991)

Thylias MOSS (b. 1954) Etext: Academy of American Poets | two poems
Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems (1993)

Rita DOVE (b. 1952) Etext: Academy of American Poets Reference: Home Page Criticism: post
Selected Poems (1993)

Paul MULDOON (b. 1951) Reference: Official site
Selected Poems (1986)

Doug ESTELL, Michele L. SATCHWELL, and Patricia S. WRIGHT
Reading Lists for College-bound Students (1993)

Geoffrey HILL (b. 1950) Etext: Epiphany at Hurcott | In Ipsley Church Lane 1 | Before senility | Citations I
Selected Poems (2006)

Edward HIRSCH (b. 1950)
Earthly Measures (1994)

Gloria NAYLOR (b. 1950)
The Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Reference: Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

Denis JOHNSON (b. 1949)
Angels (1983)
Fiskadoro (1985)
Jesus' Son (1992)

Robert COOVER (b. 1948)
Spanking the Maid (1982)

Michael DIRDA (b. 1948) Etext: Washington Post reviews
Caring For Your Books (1990)

Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947) Reference: Official Site
Winter's Tale (1983)
A Soldier of the Great War (1995)

David MAMET (b. 1947) Etext: Secret Names Reference: The David Mamet Society Criticism: post
American Buffalo (1975)
Speed-the-Plow (1988)

Salman RUSHDIE (b. 1947) Criticism: post
Midnight's Children (1981)

People by 1945 could no longer be sure of the direction in which history took them. But they could still be sure that there was a direction; and they could, if they wished, select among a variety of theories that described their destination. After 1945, they could ever less often be sure even that any direction to human affairs existed at all, that they were not totally adrift in a meaningless universe. --Oscar Handlin

Pere GIMFERRER (b. 1945) Etext: Plurilingual Anthology of Catalan Poetry
Selected Poems

J. D. McCLATCHY (b. 1945)
The Rest of the Way (1992)

Simon SCHAMA (b. 1945) Criticism: post
Citizens (1989)

Adam ZAGAJEWSKI (b. 1945) Criticism: post
Tremor (1985)

August WILSON (1945-2005) Reference: Perspectives in American Literature
Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984)
Fences (1985)

The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consquence. --Cyril Connelly, The Unquiet Grave (1944)

Douglas CRASE (b. 1944)
The Revisionist (1981)

Alice WALKER (b. 1944)
The Color Purple (1982)

Peter CAREY (b. 1943) Reference: Peter Carey Books
Illywhacker (1985)
Oscar and Lucinda (1988)

Alfred CORN (b. 1943)
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd (1978)

Sam SHEPARD (b. 1943)
Seven Plays (1984)

Reinaldo ARENAS (1943-1990) Criticism: post
Hallucinations: The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando (El mundo alucinante 1966)

John CROWLEY (b. 1942)
Little, Big (1981)
Aegypt (1987; The Solitudes 2007)
Love and Sleep (1994)

Mahmoud DARWISH (1942-2008) Etext: Academy of American Poets Criticism: post
The Music of Human Flesh (al-Nasheed al-jasadi 1980)

Peter HANDKE (b. 1942)
Slow Homecoming (1974)

Stephen HAWKING (b. 1942) Criticism: post
A Brief History of Time (1988)

John IRVING (b. 1942) Reference: BookReporter | Times Topics | The New York Times Criticism: Joan Smith essay | Suzanne Herel interview
The World According to Garp (1978)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981)

Roberto CALASSO (b. 1941)
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia 1988)

James McCOURT (b. 1941)
Time Remaining (1993)

James WILCOX (b. 1941) Reference: Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project
Modern Baptists (1983)

Paul THEROUX (b. 1941) Reference: Fan site
The Mosquito Coast (1981)

J. M. COETZEE (John Maxwell Coetzee b. 1940) Reference: Criticism: post
Foe (1986)
Disgrace (1999)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)

Thomas M. DISCH (1940-2008) Etext: Endzone Criticism: post
On Wings of Song (1979)

David RABE (b. 1940)
Streamers (1976)

Edmund WHITE (b. 1940) Reference: Official site
Forgetting Elena (1973)
Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)

Joseph BRODSKY (1940-1996) Etext: Selected poems Criticism: post
his thinking appears to be guided more by the quest for a startling apothegm than by a concern for scrupulous accuracy--this is one of the inevitable consequences of the aphoristic style. But his seriousness is such that even our disagreements force our thought in unexpected directions. --Sven Birkerts
A Part of Speech: Poems (1977)
So Forth (1996)

Ayi K. ARMAH (b. 1939) Reference: Authors' Calendar
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Margaret ATWOOD (b. 1939) Reference: Official site Criticism: post
Surfacing (1972)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

Seamus HEANEY (b. 1939) Etext: Internet Poetry Archive Criticism: post But every age must have a great poet, whether he truly exists or not, and Seamus Heaney is apparently the man appointed for the job. --Joseph Epstein, 'The Literary Life' at 25, The New Criterion, September 2007, p. 7
Field Work (1979)
Station Island (1984)
Selected Poems 1969-1987 (1990)

Les A. MURRAY (b. 1938)
The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems (1991)

Wa Thiong'o NGUGI (b. 1938)
A Grain of Wheat (1992)

Joyce Carol OATES (b. 1938) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
Them (1969)

Philip WARD (b. 1938)
See RAMON
A Lifetime's Reading (1983) Reference: Table of Contents
full title 'A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books

Ishmael REED (b. 1938)
Mumbo Jumbo (1972)

Charles SIMIC (b. 1938) Criticism: Veran Matic interview
Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004)

Raymond CARVER (1938-1988) Criticism: Frank Kermode review
Where I'm Calling From (1988)

Amos OZ (b. 1937)
A Perfect Peace (1982)

Robert STONE (b. 1937)
Dog Soldiers (1974)
A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

Thomas PYNCHON (b. 1937) Reference: Criticism: post
V. (1963)
The search for V, a puzzle slowly fitted together by a series of brilliant episodic flashbacks, provides the unifying device of the novel--a framework encompassing a considerable panorama of history and character. --George Plimpton
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
I struggled through a mishmash of pretentious symbolism and concluded that it was a load of nonsense. --Colin McArdle
One star: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
the ambition to produce a single compendious sacred writing... --Mary McCarthy

Tom STOPPARD (b. 1937) Criticism: post
Travesties (1974)

Severo SARDUY (1937-1993)
Maitreya (1978)

Don DELILLO (b. 1936) Reference: Don DeLillo Society
Running Dog (1978)
White Noise (1985)
Libra (1988)
Mao II (1991)

Lars GUSTAFSSON (b. 1936)
Selected Poems

Vaclav HAVEL (b. 1936) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
The Garden Party (1969; Zahradni Slavnost 1963)
Memorandum (Vyrozumeni 1967)
Largo Desolato (1984)

Daryl HINE (b. 1936)
Selected Poems

Dahlia RAVIKOVITCH (b. 1936)
A Dress of Fire (1978)

Jonathan D. SPENCE (b. 1936)
The Death of Woman Wang (1978)
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984)

Mario VARGAS LLOSA (b. 1936) Reference: Official site Criticism: post
The War at the End of the World (1984; La guerra del fin del mundo)

Avraham B. YEHOSHUA (b. 1936) Reference: Jewish Virtual Library
A Late Divorce (Gerushim Meuharim 1982)

Georges PEREC (1936-1982)
Life, A User's Manual (1978)

James APPLEWHITE (b. 1935) Etext: Road Down Home | My Uncle's Parsonage | Southern Voices
River Writing: An Eno Journal (1988)

John Pepper CLARK-BEKEDEREMO (b. 1935)
Casualties: Poems 1966-68 (1970)

Thomas KENEALLY (b. 1935)
Schindler's List (Schindler's Ark 1982)
The Playmaker (1987)

Danilo KIS (b. 1935)
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Grobnica za Borisa Davidovica: sedam poglavlja jedne zajednicke povesti 1976)

David LODGE (b. 1935)
Changing Places (1975)
Small World (1984)

Larry McMURTRY (b. 1935)
Lonesome Dove (1985)

Antonio PORTA (b. 1935)
Kisses from Another Dream (1988)

Daniel QUINN (b. 1935) Reference: The Ishmael Community
Ishmael (1992)

Charles WRIGHT (b. 1935) Etext: Academy of American Poets Criticism: post
The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990)

Jay WRIGHT (b. 1935) Etext: Academy of American Poets
Dimensions of History (1976)
The Double Invention of Komo (1980)
Elaine's Book (1986)
Selected Poems (1987)
Boleros (1991)

J. G. FARRELL (1935-1979)
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)

Edward BOND (b. 1934)
Saved (1965)
The Fool (1975)

David MALOUF (b. 1934)
An Imaginary Life (1978)

Wole SOYINKA (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka b. 1934) Study: Reference: Criticism: post
A Dance of the Forest (1963)
The Interpreters (1965)
Death of the King's Horsemen (1976)

Mark STRAND (b. 1934)
Selected Poems (1980)
The Continuous Life (1990)
Dark Harbour (1993)

Yaakov SHABTAI (1934-1981)
Past Continuous (1985; Zikhron Devarim)
Shifting adeptly between daily life in modern Tel Aviv and the nerve-pattern intricacies of the remembered past, the novel renounces customary kinds of structure. No character or indicent is given special status. We feel, as a result, that we have walked in upon an epic family reuntion. --Sven Birkerts

Good Reading
It remains the best one-volume advisor for serious, academic reading. --Steven Gilbar
(22nd edition 1985) full title 'Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers' Edited by Arthur Waldhorn, Olga S. Weber, Arthur Zeiger
(23rd edition 1990) full title 'Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers' Edited by Arthur Waldhorn, Olga S. Weber, Arthur Zeiger Reference: Four reading lists

Reiner KUNZE (b. 1933)
Poems
Stories
The Lovely Years (Die Wunderbaren Jahre 1976)
an oblique prose work about adolescents at school, at home, and on holiday... --Philip Ward

Cormac McCARTHY (b. 1933) Reference: Cormac McCarthy Society
Blood Meridian (1985)
Suttree (1979)
Child of God (1974)
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses (1992); The Crossing (1994); Cities of the Plain (1998)
The Road (2006)

Joe ORTON (b. 1933)
The Complete Plays

Philip ROTH (b. 1933) Reference: Times Topics Criticism: post
Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
'Goodbye, Columbus' is a fine novella (published with stories)... . --Raphael and McLeish
One star: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
My Life as a Man (1974)
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue (1985)
The Counterlife (1986)
Patrimony (1990)
Operation Shylock (1993)

Oxford English Dictionary (1933) Criticism: post

Nichita STANESCU (1933-1983) Reference: Romania - Encyclopedic Survey
The Still Unborn About the Dead (1975)

Athol FUGARD (b. 1932) Reference: Fan site
A Lesson from Aloes (1981)

Allen GROSSMAN (b. 1932)
The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected (1979-1990) (1991) Etext: Words Taken to Heart

V. S. NAIPAUL (b. 1932) Reference: Criticism: post
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)
A Bend in the River (1979)
Independence has been won, civil war concluded. 'The Big Man', president for life, rules by rhetoric, guile, sorcery and a strong helping of terror. --Irving Howe

Edna O'BRIEN (b. 1932) Reference: Bio at N.Y. State Writers Inst. | Authors' Calendar Consider the characters of Edna O'Brien, May Queens whose May Days are always rainy. --Rebecca West, And They All Lived Unhappily Ever After, Times Literary Supplement, July 16, 1974, in The Essential Rebecca West, p. 460
A Fanatic Heart (1985)

Aharon APPELFELD (B. 1932) Reference: Bibliography at Inst. Trans. Hebrew Lit. Criticism: Hillel Halkin review
Badenheim 1939 (1980; Badenheim Ir Nofesh 1979)
The Immortal Bartfuss (1988)

John UPDIKE (1932-2009) Reference: Times Topics Criticism: post
One star: Rabbit, Run (1961)
John Updike's choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in 'Rabbit, Run', was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents than so often shape a literary career. For Rabbit, though a contemporary of the young writer--born, like him, in the early 1930s, and a product, so to speak, of the same world (the area around Reading, Pa.)--was a 'beautiful brainless guy' whose career (as a high school basketball star in a provincial setting) peaked at age 18; in his own wife's view, he was, before their early, hasty marriage, 'already drifting downhill.' --Joyce Carol Oates
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984) Criticism: James Wolcott review
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

Christopher OKIGBO (1932-1967) Reference: Authors' Calendar
Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder (1971)

Sylvia PLATH (1932-1963) Criticism: post Sylvia Plath -- interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality. --Alvy Singer, in 'Annie Hall' (1977)
Poems
The Bell Jar by "Victoria Lucas" (1966)

Walter ABISH (b. 1931) Reference: David Levine Gallery
Alphabetical Africa (1974)
How German Is It) (Wie deutsch ist es 1980)
I Am the Dust Under Your Feet (1987)
Eclipse Fever (1993)

E. L. DOCTOROW (b. 1931) Reference: Bio at N.Y. State Writers Inst. Criticism: John Leonard review essay
The Book of Daniel (1971)
Ragtime (1975)
It incorporates the fictions and realities of the era of ragtime while it rags our fictions about it. --George Stade
World's Fair (1985)

Juan GOYTISOLO (b. 1931) Criticism: Maya Jaggi essay
Space in Motion (1987)

John le CARRE (David John Moore Cornwell b. 1931) Reference: Criticism: post
One star: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963)

Jay MACPHERSON (1931-2004) Reference: Canadian Women Poets
Poems Twice Told: The boatman and Welcoming disaster (1981)

Toni MORRISON (Chloe Ardelia Wofford, b. 1931) Reference: Nobel Prize | Times Topics Criticism: post | Eleanor Birne review
Sula (1973)
One star: Song of Solomon (1977)
'Song of Solomon' isn't , however, cast in the basically realistic mode of most family novels. --Reynolds Price
One star: Beloved (1987)
Jazz (1992)

Alice MUNRO (b. 1931) Reference: Times Topics Criticism: post
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)

Frederic RAPHAEL (b. 1931) and Kenneth McLEISH (b. 1940)
The List of Books (1981)
Arranged in forty-four categories, the lists, despite a decidedly Oxbridge tang, are often illuminating and often infuriating. --Steven Gilbar

Tomas TRANSTROMER (b. 1931)
Selected Poems Etext: Morning Birds

Sebastien JAPRISOT (Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 1931-2003)
The Sleeping Car Murders (Compartiment tueurs 1962)
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiancailles 1991)

Donald BARTHELME (1931-1989) Reference: Times Topics | Donald Barthelme at Jessamyn
The Dead Father (1975)
Forty Stories (1987)

Thomas BERNHARD (1931-1989) Criticism: Eric Ormsby essay | Stephen Mitchelmore essay
is an existence without meaning or goal--he does not doubt that this is its true character--bearable or not? --Sven Birkerts
Woodcutters, (1988; Holzfällen: Eine Erregung 1984)

Chinua ACHEBE (b. 1930) Reference: Times Topics Criticism: post
One star: Things Fall Apart (1958) Study: Paul Brians study guide
No Longer at Ease (1960)
Arrow of God (1964)

ADUNIS (Ali Ahmad Said, b. 1930) Reference: bio
Selected Poems Etext: Academy of American Poets

John ARDEN (b. 1930) Reference: bio at Artsworld
Plays

John BARTH (b. 1930) Reference: Fan site
The End of the Road (1958)
One star: The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
Tidewater Tales (1987)
Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994)

Harold BLOOM (b. 1930) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
The Western Canon (1994) full title 'The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages'

Harold BRODKEY (b. 1930) Reference: Robot Wisdom
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988)

Yoram KANIUK (b. 1930) Reference: Fan site
His Daughter (1987)

Slavomir MROZEK (b. 1930)
Tango (1964)
The Ugupu Bird (1968)

Harold PINTER (1930-2008) Reference: Official site | Times Topics | Nobel Prize Criticism: post They have the shape and feel of well-made plays in which every effect has a cause and every action produces a reaction. But the things they describe--violence, terror, disintegration--are usually dark and irrational. --Fintan O'Toole, 'The New York Review of Books' October 7, 1999 p.31
The Homecoming (1964)
The Dumb Waiter (1966) Here comes another incomprehensible order from above. --Kenneth L. Jost (c. 1968)
The Room (1966)
One star: The Caretaker (1967)

Gary SNYDER (b. 1930) Etext: Reference: Academy of American Poets Criticism: David Kirby review
No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992)

Derek WALCOTT (b. 1930) Reference: Nobel Prize | Times Topics Criticism: Adam Kirsch essay
Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1958)
One star: Collected Poems (1986)
Omeros (1990)
It is this everyman's Homer, and not the comfortable court poet some people imagine Homer to have been, who inspires Derek Walcott's epic poem, and who records the past events that determine the lives of the people he describes--including that of Mr. Walcott himself and, ultimately, of all of us. --Mary Lefkowitz

Nathan ZACH (b. 1930)
Selected Poems

Stanley ELKIN (1930-1995) Reference: AllRefer entry
The Living End (1979)

Dan PAGIS (1930-1986) Criticism: Audrey Shore essay
Selected Poems

Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER (b. 1929) Reference: Bloodaxe Books
One star: Gedichte. Die Entstehung eines Gedichts (1962; Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems)

Alvin FEINMAN (1929-2008)
Poems

John HOLLANDER (b. 1929) Etext: Academy of American Poets
Reflections on Espionage (1976)
Selected Poetry (1993)
Tesserae and Other Poems (1993)

Richard HOWARD (b. 1929) Reference: N.Y. State Writers Inst. biography Criticism: William H. Pritchard review | Brad Leithauser review | Adam Travis review
Untitled Subjects (1969)
Findings (1971)

Milan KUNDERA (b. 1929) Reference: Fan site Criticism: post
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelna lehkost byti 1984)
When he [Tomas] was supposed by his hospital colleagues to be thinking of signing a retraction in order to keep his job they turned up their noses at him. Now that he's been declassed for maintaining his integrity, he's become an untouchable. --E. L. Doctorow

Ursula K. LE GUIN (b. 1929) Reference: Official site
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Le Guin has a poetic sensibility; this study of a world called 'Winter' and the sexual life of its inhabitants is a stunning creation. --Raphael and McLeish

Emmanuel LE ROY LADURIE (b. 1929) Reference: Library of Congress biography
The Territory of the Historian (1979)

John MONTAGUE (b. 1929) Reference: N.Y. State Writers Inst. biography
Selected Poems

E. O. WILSON (b. 1929) Criticism: Steven Pinker interview | Eugene Goodheart essay
Sociobiology (1975) Criticism: Tom Bethell essay
Darwin put humanity in its proper place in the animal kingdom. Wilson put human society there, too. --Michael Lind

Christa WOLF (b. 1929)
Cassandra (1984)

Guillermo CABRERA Infante (1929-2005) Criticism: Associated Press obituary | Gazarian Gautrier interview | David Levine caricature
View of Dawn in the Tropics (Vista del amanecer en el tropico 1964)
Three Trapped Tigers (Tres Tristes Tigres 1967)

Noam CHOMSKY (b. 1928) Etext: Criticism: post among one the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic [that the Iraq War was unnecessary] and the manufacturing of public opinion --Osama bin Laden
Syntactic Structures (1957)

Irving FELDMAN (b. 1928) Etext: Poetry Daily
New and Selected Poems (1979)

Carlos FUENTES (b. 1928) Criticism: Debra A. Castillo interview
A Change of Skin (1968)
One star: Terra nostra (1975)

Gabriel GARCIA Marquez (b. 1928) Reference: The Guardian: Authors | Times Topics Criticism: Michael Wood review | Perry Anderson review | Francisco Goldman essay | Silvana Paternostro essay
Three stars: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Criticism: Ilan Stavans review
The narrative is a magician's trick in which memory and prophecy, illusion and reality are mixed and often made to look the same. --Robert Kiely
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

Donald HALL (b. 1928) Criticism: post
The One Day (1988)
Old and New Poems (1990)

Ferenc JUHASZ (b. 1928)
Selected Poems (1970)

William KENNEDY (b. 1928) Reference: N.Y. State Writers Inst. biography
Ironweed (1983)

Thomas KINSELLA (b. 1928) Etext: A Small Anthology of Poems
Peppercanister Poems: 1972-1978 (1979)

Philip LEVINE (b. 1928) Etext: Internet Poetry Archive Criticism: Terrence Rafferty review
Selected Poems (1984)

Laszlo NAGY (b. 1928)
Love of the Scorching Wind (1973)

Cynthia OZICK (b. 1928) Reference: Complete Review Criticism: John Leonard review
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
Envy, or Yiddish in America (1989)

Robert PIRSIG (b. 1928) Reference: Bohemian Ink
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

William TREVOR (b. 1928) Reference: Contemporary Writers
Having removed himself from his native Ireland, he can write about its imagined people with the same clarity of distance that he commands over his London and provincial characters. His short stories are considerable works of art, but it is probably in his novels that he reaches the highest peak of achivement so far. --Philip Ward
The Love Department (1970)
The Children of Dynmouth (1980)
Collected Stories (1992)
deadly bullets, all of them, piercing some sensitive area of common experience. --Bernard Bailyn

James D. WATSON (b. 1928) Criticism: post
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (April 2, 1953, with F. H. C. Crick) Etext: Nature
The Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965)
The Double Helix (1968) Reference: Resource Page
An eminently readable book about the unraveling of DNA, one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century. --The Intercollegiate Review

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH (1928-1998)
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (1998) Reference: Table of Contents

John ASHBERY (b. 1927) Reference: Times Topics | N.Y. State Writers Inst. biography
...Ashbery used to work with comparative deliberateness. ... But when the vast possibilities implicit in randomness became apparent to him, Ashbery soon left convention behind. --John Malcolm Brinnin
The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
Houseboat Days (1977)
Selected Poems (1985)
Flow Chart (1991)
Hotel Lautreamont (1992)
And the Stars Were Shining (1994)

Guy DAVENPORT (b. 1927) Criticism: Bernard Hoepffner interview
Tatlin! Six Stories (1974)

Gunter GRASS (b. 1927) Criticism: post
One star: The Tin Drum (1959) Etext: Bold Type (October 1999)
Grass's hero, Oskar, begins as the misbegotten child of the Nazi era and ends--what could be more modern?--as a jazz musician in a mental hospital. --Frederick Morton
The Flounder (1978)

Ruth Prawer JHABVALA (b. 1927) Reference: Authors' Calendar
Heat and Dust (1975)

Galway KINNELL (b. 1927)
Selected Poems (1982)

W. S. MERWIN (b. 1927) Etext: Bold Type (June 2002) Criticism: Peter Davison essay
Selected Poems (1988)

James WRIGHT (b. 1927) Etext: Reference: Academy of American Poets
Above the River: The Complete Poems (1992)

John BERGER (b. 1926)
Ways of Seeing (1972)
About Looking (1980)

James SALTER (b. 1926) Reference:
Light Years (1975)
Solo Faces (1979)

Charles VAN DOREN (b. 1926)
How to Read a Book (Revised and Updated Edition 1972, with Mortimer J. Adler) Bookseller: Video Reference: Appendix A: A recommended reading list
Great Treasury of Western Thought (1977 editor, with Mortimer J. Adler) Reference: Contents
full title 'Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western History'
The Joy of Reading (1985)
full title 'The Joy of Reading: 210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc.; What's In Them, Why Read Them'
The Joy of Reading (2008)
full title 'The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works'

John FOWLES (1926-2005) Reference: Fan site Criticism: Saray Lyall obituary | Ian Sansom review essay
The Magus (2nd Ed., 1977) In some mysterious way, Conchis, the Magus or magician who inhabits, or, better, infuses, the Greek island where Nicholas goes to teach in a boys' school, becomes the instructor-ally that Alison needs, so that Nicholas finally learns something. Not everything; not enough, perhaps. --Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading (1985) p. 170

David SHAHAR (1926-1997) Reference: Babelguides
The Palace of Shattered Vessels: Summer in the Street of the Prophets (1985; Kayitz Be-Derech Ha-Nevi'im, 1969); A Voyage to Ur of the Chaldees (1985; Ha-Masah Le-Ur Kasdim, 1971); The Day of the Countess (1986; Yom Ha-Rozenet, 1976); Nin-Gal (1996; Ningal, 1983); Day of the Ghosts (1996; Yom Ha-Refaim, 1986); A Tammuz Night`s Dream (1996; Halom Leyl Tammuz, 1988); Nights of Lutetia (1991; Leylot Lutezia); On Candles and Winds (1996; Al Ner Ve Al Ruah, 1994)

A. R. AMMONS (Archie Randolph Ammons, 1926-2001) Etext: Reference: Academy of American Poets
Collected Poems: 1951-1971 (1972)
Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974)
Selected Longer Poems (1980)

Elizabeth JENNINGS (1926-2001) Etext: Plagiarist Poetry Archive
Selected Poems (1979)

James MERRILL (1926-1995) Criticism: Len Krisak review
The Changing Light at Sandower (1982)
From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1972 (1982)

Ingeborg BACHMANN (1926-1973) Etext: Poem Hunter Reference: Author's Calendar
In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems (translated and edited by Mark Anderson, 1986)

Frank O'HARA (1926-1966) Etext: Reference: Academy of American Poets Criticism: post
Selected Poems (2004)

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