Author : Wesley T. Mott
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began publishing their major works during the American Renaissance in New England (between 1830 and 1860). Wide scope of authors includes: novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, abolitionists, scientists, lexicographers; special attention is given to the Transcendental authors - headed by Emerson and Thoreau.