TY - BOOK AU - Mandelbaum,Paul TI - First words: earliest writing from favorite contemporary authors SN - 0945575718 : AV - PS508.C5 F57 1993 U1 - 813/.540809283 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Chapel Hill, N.C. PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Children's writings, American KW - American literature KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-502); Selections from: Isaac Asimov -- Margaret Atwood -- Louis Auchincloss -- Amiri Baraka -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Roy Blount, Jr. -- Vance Bourjaily -- Paul Bowles -- William S. Burroughs -- Fred Chappell -- Carolyn Chute -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Pat Conroy -- Michael Crichton -- Stephen Dixon -- Rita Dove -- Clyde Edgerton -- Stanley Elkin -- George Garrett -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Allan Gurganus -- Mark Helprin -- John Hersey -- Charles Johnson --; Stephen King -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- W.P. Kinsella -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Jill McCorkle -- Norman Mailer -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Susan Minot -- Gloria Naylor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tillie Olsen -- William Styron -- Amy Tan -- John Updike -- Gore Vidal -- Tobias Wolff; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/firstwordsearlie00mand UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1397313M ER -