Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
Ausgabe:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810311473
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081031147X
Serie:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 11
Inhalt:
Part 1 -- George Ade (1866-1944) - MaxAdeler (see Charles Heber Clark) - Josiah Allen's Wife (see Marietta Holley) - Bill Arp (see Charles Henry Smith) - Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) - John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) - Robert Benchley (1889-1945) - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) - Hosea Biglow (see James Russell Lowell) - Josh Billings (see Henry Wheeler Shaw) - Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) - John Brougham (1810-1880) - Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1967) - Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) - Charles Heber Clark (1841-1915) - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (see Mark Twain) - Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) - Geoffrey Crayon (see Washington Irving) - Davy Crockett (1786-1836) - Will Cuppy (1884-1949) - T. A. Daly (1871-1948) - Charles A. Davis (1795-1867) - Clarence Day (1874-1935) - George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) - Diogenes, Jr. (see John Brougham) - Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B. (see Mortimer Thomson) - J. Downing, Major (see Charles A. Davis) - Major Jack Downing (see Seba Smith) - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) - Corey Ford (1902-1969) - Montague Glass (1877-1934) - Asa Greene (1789-1838) - Milt Gross (1895-1953) - Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) - Marion Hargrove (1919-) - George Washington Harris (1814-1869) - Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) - Samuel Hoffenstein (1890-1947) -- Marietta Holley (1836-1926) - Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) - Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) - Major Joseph Jones (see William Tappan Thompson) - Orpheus C. Kerr (see Robert Henry Newell) - Diedrick Knickerbocker (see Washington Irving) - Arthur Kober (1900-1975) - Ring Lardner (1885-1933) - Charles G. Leland (1824-1903) - Charles B. Lewis (1842-1924) - David Ross Locke (1833-1888) - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) - Anita Loos (1893-1981) - Sut Lovingood (see George Washington Harris) - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Inhalt:
Part 2 -- Don Marquis (1878-1937) - Abe Martin (see Kin Hubbard) - Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) - Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby (see David Ross Locke) - Ogden Nash (1902-1971) - Joseph C. Neal (1807-1847) -- Robert Henry Newell (1836-1901) - C. F. M. Noland (1810?-1858) - Bill Nye (1850-1896) - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) - S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) - John Phoenix (see George Horatio Derby) - M. Quad (see Charles B. Lewis) - John Riddell (see Corey Ford) - Will Rogers (1879-1935) - Leonard Q. Ross (see Leo Rosten) -- Leo Rosten (1908-) - Damon Runyon (1880-1946) -- Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885) - B. P. Shillaber (1814-1890) - Max Shulman (1919-) - Sam Slick (see Thomas Chandler Haliburton) -- Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903) - H. Allen Smith (1907-1976) -- Seba Smith (1792-1868) - Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) - Edward Streeter (1891-1976) - Squibob (see George Horatio Derby) - Simon Suggs (see Johnson Jones Hooper) - Frank Sullivan (1892-1976) - William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882) - Mortimer Thomson (1831-1875) - Thomas Bang Thorpe (1815-1878) - James Thurber (1894-1961) - Mark Twain (1835-1910) - Artemus Ward (see Charles Farrar Browne) - Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) - Colonel Pete Whetstone (see C. F. M. Noland) - Frances Miriam Whitcher (1814-1852) - E. B. White (1899-) - American Humor: A Historical Survey - East and Northeast - South and Southwest - Mdwest - West - Humorous Book Illustration - Newspaper Syndication of American Humor - Selected Humorous Magazines (1802-1950).
Inhalt:
Contains biographical sketches of American humorists who are generally considered to have had a major impact on our attitudes toward and understanding of humor and on the development of the form through the production of a significant body of work. Only literary figures were considered for inclusion, criterion was based on whether the author's work was primarily humorous or whether there was a significant body of humorous writing
Anmerkung:
Original 706 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online