The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language ...

The characters in A Friend in Power bear a disquieting resemblance to stereotyped “ordinary guys” of television and movie screens. In fact, Carlos Baker’s novel might be termed ...

Recuperating from an almost fatal holdup, Dan Sherwood becomes intrigued by the mysterious past of renowned American novelist Nicholas Kemp.

Baker brings to life Emerson and his circle of friends--Hawthorne, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and others. the result is a vivid and textured mosaic ...

Professor Baker is concerned primarily with Shelley's development ns a philosophical and psychological poet, and it is precisely in this that the great achievement of the book ...