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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

REFERENCE WORK

Published in 2001 by Merriam-Webster, Inc. Most entries are light rewrites of Encyclopaedia Britannica articles, sometimes updated with new information. A number of new entries have been added as well. Approximately 1,062 person entries, with additional sections for works and movements.

People in this reference:856
Those presently living:179
Those deceased:677
  
White:767
Black:64
Multiracial:9
Hispanic:5
American Aborigine:5
Asian:3
Asian/Indian:1
(not specified):1
Middle Eastern:1
  
United States:839
England:7
Ireland:2
(not specified):1
Jamaica:1
Germany:1
Poland:1
Spain:1
Canada:1
Russia:1
Austria:1
      Edward Abbey
      Jacob Abbott
      Walter Abish
      M. H. Abrams
      Kathy Acker
      Diane Ackerman
      Louis Adamic
      Abigail Adams
      Alice Adams
      Brooks Adams
      Charles Follen Adams
      Franklin Pierce Adams
      Henry Adams
      James Truslow Adams
      John Adams
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(826 names omitted for brevity)
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      C. Vann Woodward
      Douglas Woolf
      Alexander Woollcott
      Herman Wouk
      Harold Bell Wright
      James Wright
      Richard Wright
      Elinor Wylie
      Frank Yerby
      Anzia Yezierska
      Marguerite Young
      Stark Young
      Morton Dauwen Zabel
      Paul Zindel
      Louis Zukofsky





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