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The Best American Essays 1987

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Tom Wolfe

- p. 589-90, The Best American Essays of the Century.

TOM WOLFE holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University and is the author of many books, including The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test, Racial Chic % Mau0Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Painted Word, and From Bauhaus to Our House. The Right Stuff won the American Book Award for general nonfiction in 1980. He received the Columbia Journalism Award in 1980 and the John Dos Passos Award in 1984. His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, is being published this year.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 318). Ticknor & Fields.

Geoffrey C. Ward

GEOFFREY C. WARD, guest editor,

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 1996.

GEOFFREY C. WARD is the author of Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905 and is currently at work on three books: a second volume on FDR, a brief history of the Civil War, and Return Passage, a personal look at India as he knew it thirty years ago and as it is today, in which an expanded version of "Tiger in the Road!" will eventually appear. He is a former editor of American Heritage, for which he does a regular column, "Matters of Fact," and he also writes historical documentaries for Florentine Films.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 318). Ticknor & Fields.

 

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Calvin Trillin

CALVIN TRILLIN wrote a column for The Nation from 1978 to 1985 and is currently a syndicated columnist. He is the author of many books, including U.S. Journal, American Fried, Runestruck, Floater, Uncivil Liberties, Killings, With All Disrespect, and If You Can't Say Something Nice. He has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1963, where "Rumors Around Town" appeared as part of his "U.S. Journal" series. Mr. Trillin lives in New York with his wife and their two daughters.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 318). Ticknor & Fields.

Robert Stone

ROBERT STONE is the author of A Hall of Mirror, which won the Faulkner Award in 1967; Dog Soldiers, which received the National Book Award in 1975; A Flag for Sunrise in 1981; and Children of Light in 1986. His articles and short stories have appeared in many publications, and he has received the John Dos Passos Prize for literature and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. he taught creative writing for many years at Amherst College and recently at the University of California at San Diego.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 318). Ticknor & Fields.

Scott Russell Sanders

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS teaches literature and intellectual history at Indiana University. He is the author of ten books, including The Paradise of Bombs, which appeared earlier this year and won the Associated Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction. Two of his novels, The Invisible Company and The Engineer of Beasts, will appear in 1988. Quarriers" and "Stone Towns and the Country Between," both of which were listed among "Notable Essays of 1985," have been collected in Stone Country, a book about southern Indiana's limestone region.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317-8). Ticknor & Fields.

Phyllis Rose

PHYLLIS ROSE is the author of two biographical works, Woman of Letter: A Life of Virginia Woolf and Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. She has written about literature and life for The Atlantic, Vogue, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Times Book Review, and The Nation, and did the "Hers" column for the New York Times for ten weeks. Some of her reviews and literary essays appeared in her collection, Writing of Women. A professor of English at Wesleyan University, she is currently working on a book about Josephine Baker, the black American dancer who went to Paris in 1925 and never came back.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317). Ticknor & Fields.