At the outset of what he called 'the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history,' F. Scott Fitzgeral...
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a bor...
Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day-including J...
The collected letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, illuminates th...
'to write it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all m...
'Pure and lovely…to read Zelda's letters is to fall in love with her.' ?The Washington Pos...
'to write it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all m...
Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why t...
A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won m...
With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playw...
Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why t...
This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper ...