Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies found in the original book have been maintained in this version. A complete list is found at the end of the text. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND STUDY OUTLINES BY JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY AND EDITH RICKERT NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. Printed in the U.S.A. CONTENTS PAGE HOW TO USE THIS BOOK v INDEXES AND CRITICAL PERIODICALS ix GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE xi ANTHOLOGIES xv COLLECTIONS OF PLAYS xvi COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES xviii COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS xviii BIBLIOGRAPHIES xix ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND STUDIES AND REVIEWS 1 INDEXES OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO FORM 167 INDEX OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO BIRTHPLACE 177 INDEX OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO SUBJECT-MATTER AND LOCAL COLOR 181 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK This book is intended as a companion volume to _Contemporary British Literature_; but the differences between conditions in America and in England have made it necessary to alter somewhat the original plan. In America today we have a few excellent writers who challenge comparison with the best of present-day England. We have many more who have been widely successful in the business of making novels, poems, plays, which cannot rank as literature at all. In choosing from such a large number a list for study, it is our hope that we have not omitted the name of any author who counts as a force in our developing literature; but, on the other hand, it is undoubtedly true that we have excluded many writers whose work compares favorably with that of some on the list. Our choice has been governed by two principles: (1) To include experimental work--work dealing with fresh materials or attempting new methods--rather than better work on familiar patterns; and (2) to represent varying tendencies in the literary effort of our country today rather than work that ranks high in popular taste. The task of doing justice to every writer is impossible; but we have been primarily concerned not with writers but with readers--those who wish guidance to the best that there is in our literature and to the signs that point to the future.