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Contemporary Novelists  \n(including short story writers) Contemporary Poets  \nContemporary Popular Writers Contemporary Southern Writers  \nContemporary Women Poets Contemporary World Writers  \nCONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS  \nSEVENTH EDITION  \nPREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION  \nDAVID MADDEN  \nEDITORS  \nNEIL SCHLAGER  \nAND  \nJOSH LAUER  \n~~ ~~ S~~t J ~~  \nNeil Schlager and Josh Lauer, Editors  \nKristin Hart, Project Coordinator  \nMichelle Banks, Erin Bealmear, Laura Standley Berger, Joann Cerrito, Jim Craddock, Steve Cusack, Nicolet V. Elert, Miranda Ferrara, Jamie FitzGerald, Melissa Hill, Laura S. Kryhoski, Margaret Mazurkiewicz, Carol A. Schwartz, Christine Tomassini, Michael J. Tyrkus  \nSt. James Press Staff  \nPeter M. Gareffa, Managing Editor, St. James Press  \nMary Beth Trimper, Manager, Composition and Electronic Prepress Evi Seoud, Assistant Manager, Composition Purchasing and Electronic Prepress Dorothy Maki, Manufacturing Manager  \nRhonda Williams, Buyer  \nKenn Zorn, Product Design Manager  \nMike Logusz, Graphic Artist  \nWhile every effort has been made to ensure the reliability of the information presented in this publication, St. James Press does not guarantee the accuracy of the data contained herein. St. James Press accepts no payment for listing; and inclusion of any organization, agency, institution, publication, service, or individual does not imply endorsement of the editors or publisher.  \nErrors brought to the attention of the publisher and verified to the satisfaction of the publisher will be corrected in future editions.  \nThis publication is a creative work fully protected by all applicable copyright laws, as well as by misappropriation, trade secret, unfair competition, and other applicable laws. The authors and editors of this work have added value to the underlying factual material herein through one or more of the following: unique and original selection, coordination, expression, arrangement, and classification of the information.  \nAll rights to this publication will be vigorously defended.  \nCopyright © 2001  \nSt. James Press  \n27500 Drake Rd.  \nFarmington Hills, MI 48331-3535  \nAll rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.  \nISBN 1-55862-408-2  \nISSN 1531-2232  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nSt. James Press is an imprint of Gale Group Gale Group and Design is a trademark used herein under license 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nPREFACE PAGE vii  \nEDITORS’NOTE xiii  \nBOARD OF ADVISERS xv  \nCONTRIBUTORS xvii  \nLIST OF ENTRANTS xxi  \nCONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS 1  \nNOTESON ADVISERSAND CONTRIBUTORS 1083  \nNATIONALITY INDEX 1103  \nTITLE INDEX 1109  \nPREFACE  \nBeginning at the beginning,“novel” means, obviously, a new thing. The universal definition has been, more or less, that it brings apiece of news about places, people, and ideas.  \nThe Death of the Novel and the Death of Reading  \nFrom the beginning, its health has been in doubt, and rumors of its death have dogged its history. If in the new millennium, rumors persist that the novel is no longer new—that it is old and as good as dead—perhaps, just to be certain, we ought to take its pulse nowas a precaution against premature burial.  \nAnd while we are at it, shouldn’t we also take the pulse of the reader, in the corporate sense—“the reader is dead” being the latest variation on the notion of the death of the novel?  \nLike “God is dead,” “the novel is dead” was, on its inception, a lame-brained metaphor. A detailed chronology of the novel reveals, in every era, not only its liveliness, but its well-earned right to the term “novel.”  \nOn the contemporary scene, however, it can perhaps be said that there are no master novelists, male or female, and no masterpieces. If that is true, is that sad? I can’t bring myself to think so. 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