George and Barbara Perkins

Authors and editors.

Selected Works

The American Tradition in Literature
A history and anthology, available in both a two volume complete edition and a shorter, one volume concise edition
The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
The most comprehensive single-volume guide to American literature.
The Harper Handbook to Literature
A guide to history, terms, and concepts.
Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience
A multicultural reader.

Quick Links

AROUND THE WORLD ON THE QE2, a travel memoir published as a quality paperback.
SiriusThoth
Writing, reviewing, technical writing, copy-editing, proof-reading, screen-writing, videos, art.
George Perkins Facebook
A link to the Perkins Facebook, and through it to selected family members, readers, and scholars.
Primis American Tradition in Literature
A McGraw Hill site where instructors may build their own textbooks or supplement the textbook they currently use.
The International Society for the Study of Narrative
An international scholarly society that sponsors a journal, NARRATIVE, an annual conference, an e-mail discussion list, and the annual BARBARA PERKINS & GEORGE PERKINS AWARD for the best book in narrative studies.
Authors Guild
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Contemporary American Literature

A history and anthology covering the crucial period that began at the end of World War Two and lasted until the decade of the 'nineties.

AMONG THE AUTHORS:

Writers of fiction begin with Vladimir Nabokov, I. B. Singer, Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Ralph Ellison, include Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor, William Gaddis, E. L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, John Updike and Philip oth, as well as younger writers like Barry Hannah, John Irving, Alice Walker, Tim O'Brien, Ann Beattie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jane Phillips, and Elizabeth Tallent.

Dramatists are Tennessee Williams, Arhur Miller, Edward Albee, David Rabe, and Sam Shepard.

The list of poets begins with William Carlos Williams, Robert Francis, Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, and Charles Olson, includes Robert Creeley, Alan Ginsberg, and A. R. Ammons, and ends with poets born during and after World War II, including Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Rita Dove, and Brad Leithauser.