A History of American Literature,

• The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century
• Covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels
• Features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Bunting Institute, and other fellowships, as well as holding the Hubbell Medal for American Literature. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing, and pedagogy. Her publications include “Favored Strangers”: Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and its anthology(1995), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (1999/2003), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (2004), Barbara Kingsolver (2004), and Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life (2007).