Draws on personal recollections, letters, and inteviews with friends, family, and associates to present a portrait of the popular Yiddish writer.

Books about Short Story Index: 1964-1968

Books about Twentieth Century American Literature

Alphabetically arranged entries include discussions of individual authors, literary movements, institutions, notable texts, literary developments, themes, ethnic literatures, and "topic" essays.

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy