ROBERT BAIN is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With Joseph Flora, he edited Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 (1987), Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 (1987), and Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South (1993), all published by Greenwood Press.JOSEPH M. FLORA is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to the above works on Southern writers, he has written books on Ernest Hemingway and other American authors.

• Preface Introduction Maya Angelou by Lucinda H. MacKethan James Applewhite by George S. Lensing Daphne Athas by Harriette Cuttino Buchanan Gerald [William] Barrax by Lucy K. Hayden Wendell Berry by Edward B. Smith Roy [Alton] Blount, Jr. by Merritt W. Moseley, Jr. David Bottoms by Peter Stitt Fred Chappell by David Paul Ragan Alice Childress by La Vinia Delois Jennings James Duff by Susan Gilbert Wilma Dykeman by Patricia M. Gantt and Chip Jones Charles Edward Eaton by Glenn Blalock Lonne Elder III by John Sekora Peter Steinam Feibleman by Randal Woodland Julia Fields by Sara Andrews Johnston George Garrett by R.H.W. Dillard Nikki Giovanni by Patsy B. Perry Elizabeth Hardwick by Susan V. Donaldson William Harmon by Marlene Youmans Beth Henley by Hilary Holladay Preston Jones by Kimball King Donald Justice by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Florence King by Kathryn VanSpanckeren Etheridge Knight by D. Soyini Madison LeRoy Leatherman by Alan T. Belsches Susan Ludvigson by Judy Jo Small David Madden by Jeffrey H. Richards Jeff Daniel Marion by Lynne P. Shackelford Heather Ross Miller by Bes Stark Spangler Jim Wayne Miller by Joyce Dyer William Mills by William Grimes Cherry III Robert Morgan by William Harmon Willie Morris by Julius Rowan Raper Marsha Norman by Billy J. Harbin and Jill Stapleton Bergeron Guy Owen by Mary C. Williams Ishmael Reed by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. George Addison Scarbrough by Robert L. Phillips James Seay by William Aarnes Eve Shelnutt by Elsa Nettels Dave Smith by Corrinne Hales R. T. Smith by Linda Welden Dabney Stuart by Gilbert Allen Henry [Splawn] Taylor by Elizabeth McGeachy Mills Richard [Williford] Tillinghast by Ed Ingebretsen Margaret Walker by Mary Hughes Brookhart James Whitehead by Thomas E. Dasher Jonathan Williams by John E. Bassett Miller Williams by Timothy Dow Adams Tom Wolfe by Daphne H. O'Brien Charles Wright by Margaret Mills Harper Appendices General Bibliography Index Contributors

ROBERT BAIN is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With Joseph Flora, he edited Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 (1987), Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 (1987), and Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South (1993), all published by Greenwood Press.JOSEPH M. FLORA is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to the above works on Southern writers, he has written books on Ernest Hemingway and other American authors.

• Preface Introduction Maya Angelou by Lucinda H. MacKethan James Applewhite by George S. Lensing Daphne Athas by Harriette Cuttino Buchanan Gerald [William] Barrax by Lucy K. Hayden Wendell Berry by Edward B. Smith Roy [Alton] Blount, Jr. by Merritt W. Moseley, Jr. David Bottoms by Peter Stitt Fred Chappell by David Paul Ragan Alice Childress by La Vinia Delois Jennings James Duff by Susan Gilbert Wilma Dykeman by Patricia M. Gantt and Chip Jones Charles Edward Eaton by Glenn Blalock Lonne Elder III by John Sekora Peter Steinam Feibleman by Randal Woodland Julia Fields by Sara Andrews Johnston George Garrett by R.H.W. Dillard Nikki Giovanni by Patsy B. Perry Elizabeth Hardwick by Susan V. Donaldson William Harmon by Marlene Youmans Beth Henley by Hilary Holladay Preston Jones by Kimball King Donald Justice by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Florence King by Kathryn VanSpanckeren Etheridge Knight by D. Soyini Madison LeRoy Leatherman by Alan T. Belsches Susan Ludvigson by Judy Jo Small David Madden by Jeffrey H. Richards Jeff Daniel Marion by Lynne P. Shackelford Heather Ross Miller by Bes Stark Spangler Jim Wayne Miller by Joyce Dyer William Mills by William Grimes Cherry III Robert Morgan by William Harmon Willie Morris by Julius Rowan Raper Marsha Norman by Billy J. Harbin and Jill Stapleton Bergeron Guy Owen by Mary C. Williams Ishmael Reed by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. George Addison Scarbrough by Robert L. Phillips James Seay by William Aarnes Eve Shelnutt by Elsa Nettels Dave Smith by Corrinne Hales R. T. Smith by Linda Welden Dabney Stuart by Gilbert Allen Henry [Splawn] Taylor by Elizabeth McGeachy Mills Richard [Williford] Tillinghast by Ed Ingebretsen Margaret Walker by Mary Hughes Brookhart James Whitehead by Thomas E. Dasher Jonathan Williams by John E. Bassett Miller Williams by Timothy Dow Adams Tom Wolfe by Daphne H. O'Brien Charles Wright by Margaret Mills Harper Appendices General Bibliography Index Contributors

ROBERT BAIN is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With Joseph Flora, he edited Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 (1987), Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 (1987), and Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South (1993), all published by Greenwood Press.JOSEPH M. FLORA is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to the above works on Southern writers, he has written books on Ernest Hemingway and other American authors.

• Preface Introduction Maya Angelou by Lucinda H. MacKethan James Applewhite by George S. Lensing Daphne Athas by Harriette Cuttino Buchanan Gerald [William] Barrax by Lucy K. Hayden Wendell Berry by Edward B. Smith Roy [Alton] Blount, Jr. by Merritt W. Moseley, Jr. David Bottoms by Peter Stitt Fred Chappell by David Paul Ragan Alice Childress by La Vinia Delois Jennings James Duff by Susan Gilbert Wilma Dykeman by Patricia M. Gantt and Chip Jones Charles Edward Eaton by Glenn Blalock Lonne Elder III by John Sekora Peter Steinam Feibleman by Randal Woodland Julia Fields by Sara Andrews Johnston George Garrett by R.H.W. Dillard Nikki Giovanni by Patsy B. Perry Elizabeth Hardwick by Susan V. Donaldson William Harmon by Marlene Youmans Beth Henley by Hilary Holladay Preston Jones by Kimball King Donald Justice by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Florence King by Kathryn VanSpanckeren Etheridge Knight by D. Soyini Madison LeRoy Leatherman by Alan T. Belsches Susan Ludvigson by Judy Jo Small David Madden by Jeffrey H. Richards Jeff Daniel Marion by Lynne P. Shackelford Heather Ross Miller by Bes Stark Spangler Jim Wayne Miller by Joyce Dyer William Mills by William Grimes Cherry III Robert Morgan by William Harmon Willie Morris by Julius Rowan Raper Marsha Norman by Billy J. Harbin and Jill Stapleton Bergeron Guy Owen by Mary C. Williams Ishmael Reed by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. George Addison Scarbrough by Robert L. Phillips James Seay by William Aarnes Eve Shelnutt by Elsa Nettels Dave Smith by Corrinne Hales R. T. Smith by Linda Welden Dabney Stuart by Gilbert Allen Henry [Splawn] Taylor by Elizabeth McGeachy Mills Richard [Williford] Tillinghast by Ed Ingebretsen Margaret Walker by Mary Hughes Brookhart James Whitehead by Thomas E. Dasher Jonathan Williams by John E. Bassett Miller Williams by Timothy Dow Adams Tom Wolfe by Daphne H. O'Brien Charles Wright by Margaret Mills Harper Appendices General Bibliography Index Contributors