If you’d like to dip into some short, scholarly-adjacent posts on American authors, here are a few:
Edith Wharton
- “What does the painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis have to do with Edith Wharton?” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/what-does-the-painting-surrender-of-lord-cornwallis-have-to-do-with-edith-wharton/
- “Edith Wharton and V. L. Parrington: The Politics of a Literary Reputation.” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/edith-wharton-and-v-l-parrington/
Frank Norris
- “Ten Little-Known Facts about Frank Norris for his Birthday” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/ten-little-known-facts-about-frank-norris-for-his-birthday/
Jack London
- “Jack London’s Voice” BBC Podcast on Jack London’s voice: https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/bbc-podcast-on-jack-london-and-recording-of-his-voice/
- “Did Jack London burn down Wolf House” (Literary Mystery) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/did-jack-london-set-fire-to-wolf-house/
- “Importance of Jack London” (video) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/jack-london-apostle-of-the-american-west-presentation-at-cspan-3-link/ and interview https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/interview-on-jack-london-from-jacklondons-net/
Stephen Crane
- “Did W. D. Howells read Emily Dickinson to Stephen Crane?” (Literary Mystery) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/did-stephen-crane-read-emily-dickinson-better-still-did-w-d-howells-read-dickinsons-poetry-to-crane/
- Review of Stephen Crane Remembered (Biography Corner) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/review-of-stephen-crane-remembered/
Miscellaneous
- “No Irish Need Apply: Myth or Fact?” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/no-irish-need-apply-a-myth-no-its-true/
- “What did a murder case that dominated the tabloids look like 112 years ago? Evelyn Nesbit and Grace Brown” (from Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/biography-corner-evelyn-nesbit-and-grace-brown/
- “John Steinbeck and the Realist Fable” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/steinbeck-and-harper-lee/
- Brief bio of Charles Dudley Warner https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/charles-dudley-warner-1829-1900-brief-biographical-sketch/