Author: Richard Orodenker
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Essays on American sportswriters, for which some are the first studies to appear anywhere. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from"serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Twentieth-century American Sportswriters
Author: Richard Orodenker
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Essays on American sportswriters, for which some are the first studies to appear anywhere. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from"serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Essays on American sportswriters, for which some are the first studies to appear anywhere. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from"serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
American Sportswriters and Writers on Sport
Author: Richard Orodenker
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author: Richard Orodenker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810309135
Category : Sportswriters
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810309135
Category : Sportswriters
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sport and the Color Line
Author: Patrick B. Miller
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415946117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The essays presented in this text examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415946117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The essays presented in this text examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Capturing the century's greatest moments in every sport from basseball to chess, these authors (Red Smith, Tom Boswell, John Updike, Jim Murray, Norman Mailer, W.C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, David Remnick, Ring Lardner, Gay Talese, William Nack, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Jon Krakauer) and their subjects (including Joe DiMaggio, Secretariat, Bobby Knight, and Muhammad Ali) reflect the rising societal importance of sports in this century, showing how sports have been shaped by such monumental events as war, the civil rights movement, and the changing economyomy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Capturing the century's greatest moments in every sport from basseball to chess, these authors (Red Smith, Tom Boswell, John Updike, Jim Murray, Norman Mailer, W.C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, David Remnick, Ring Lardner, Gay Talese, William Nack, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Jon Krakauer) and their subjects (including Joe DiMaggio, Secretariat, Bobby Knight, and Muhammad Ali) reflect the rising societal importance of sports in this century, showing how sports have been shaped by such monumental events as war, the civil rights movement, and the changing economyomy.
A Century of Sports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents an overview of sports in the United States and highlights the careers of some memorable athletes of the twentieth century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents an overview of sports in the United States and highlights the careers of some memorable athletes of the twentieth century.
Twentieth-century American Western Writers
Author: Richard H. Cracroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Twentieth-century American Nature Writers
Author: Roger Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Essays on distinctly American nature writers from the earliest to the most recent that have consistently sought to convey both their wonder at the natural world and their individual, personal experiences, within it.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Essays on distinctly American nature writers from the earliest to the most recent that have consistently sought to convey both their wonder at the natural world and their individual, personal experiences, within it.
The Sports Pages
Author: Grant Burns
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
631 entries spanning the twentieth century from the early 1900s through the mid-1980s.
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
631 entries spanning the twentieth century from the early 1900s through the mid-1980s.
Twentieth-century American Dramatists
Author: Christopher J. Wheatley
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Represents the diversity and productivity of American drama since 1900. The careers of playwrights whose works achieved notable popularity as well as critical success are presented in some detail. Emphasis is placed on biography and a synthesis of the critical reception of authors' works.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Represents the diversity and productivity of American drama since 1900. The careers of playwrights whose works achieved notable popularity as well as critical success are presented in some detail. Emphasis is placed on biography and a synthesis of the critical reception of authors' works.