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Literature and Its Writers

by Ann Charters; Samuel Charters

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Literature and Its Writers

A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Sixth Edition ©2013

ISBN-10: 1-4576-0647-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-0647-2
Paper Text, 1776 pages

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Ann Charters

Ann Charters

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Ann Charters received her B.A. at Berkeley and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She first met Kerouac at a poetry reading in Berkeley in 1956, and compiled a comprehensive bibliography of his work in 1967. A professor of English at the University of Connecticut, she is also the editor of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac and the Portable Kerouac Reader, and the author of Beats and Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation.


Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters

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Samuel Charters has taught creative writing and published widely in a variety of genres, including eleven books of poetry, four novels, a book of criticism on contemporary American poetry, a biography (coauthored with Ann Charters) of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and translations of the poetry of Tomas Transtromer and Edith Sodergran. An ethnomusicologist, he produces blues and jazz recordings and has published many books about music, among them a history of New Orleans jazz and a study of bluesman Robert Johnson.


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