Now an abridged edition of two highly acclaimed volumes Praise for Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 "Dreiser’s life has never been more vividly told. Lingeman’s definitive book reveals the tough, uncompromising impulse that led Dreiser, disdaining...

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio...

An American Poet in Paris is a literary biography of Pauline Avery Crawford, a remarkable American expatriate who wrote for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune in the 1930s and 1940s. Interspersed in the biography are numerous...

Award-winning reporter Judy Pasternak tells the haunting story of uranium mining on the Navajo desert and its terrible, long-ignored legacy. The Washington Post - Ann Cummins …disturbing and illuminating…There's nothing clinical or dry about Yellow Dirt. While Pasternak cites a...

This collection of first person narratives reflects the diversity of the Filipino immigrant experience and openly addresses issues of changing identity, generational and cultural differences, and the role of community. Included are pre- and post-1965 immigrants, from working students who...

This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux;...

In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County, in An American Homeplace. On the fast track in the New York advertising world, McCaig...

This wonderful anthology recreates the past from the voices of those who struggled to adapt to the "new world". Facing such adversity as assimilation, prejudice, poverty, homesickness, and identity, these newcomers were able to persevere and their inspiring stories are...

My Jamaican/American Experience is a true life story about the writer's life and experiences growing up Jamaican and maturing American. She calls it an awesome experience that she will always treasure and embrace. She sums up her experience as being...

 In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of...