Examination of 11 major library science journals for period 1979 through 1983 to determine affiliation of authors of substantive articles indicates that requirements for academic librarians to publish affect publication productivity, and that findings concerning productivity of library school faculties are consistent with those of earlier…

Discusses the literary style of Bildungsroman of various West Indian and American writers. The need of various authors to look back, to reassess one's childhood from the vantage point of maturity is discussed as it relates to the wishes to establish an authoritative basis of experience and reinterpret a fragmentary past. (SA)

Discusses the relationship of the publishing industry and the reading public to black women writers. Examines the difficulties of becoming published and the paucity of blacks in positions of authority in the business. Presents recommendations for supporting the work of black women authors. (SA)

Explains how a year of observing two successful novelists write and revise on the computer provided a number of ideas that are encapsulated in the concept of a fluid text or the writer's conscious avoidance of a text that becomes static or fixed. (HOD)

Presents ideas for the prospective writer such as recording ideas, keeping a diary, important library resources, analyzing periodicals, writing query letters, writing the article, submitting, acceptance/rejection, and revision. Provides a list of 16 science, mathematics, and related publications with editors' names and addresses. (JM)

Criticizes the Thames Television "English Programme" because it promotes mistrust, dissatisfaction, and cynicism. (CRH)

Through personal reminiscence and description of professional contacts, the author examines her philosophy of writing. (CRH)

Identifies 10 writers, editors, teachers, and presidents of the National Council of Teachers of English who were cited by a poll of educators as having a major influence on secondary school English instruction. (MM)

Reports results of surveys which indicate that the percentage of articles and research reports authored by elementary and secondary level teachers is disproportionately small. Journal can be ordered from Offices of the Executive Secretary, Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, P. O. Box 6637, Philadelphia, PA 19149. (Author/DB)

This anthology is the first to present the full history of the Latino literary tradition from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoirs, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. Adding to the anthology are several selections from rare and little-known…

This book, aimed at the young reader, explores the life and career of the Chinese-American author, Amy Tan. It follows her childhood in Oakland, California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, through her education and marriage to a non-Chinese man, to her early work as a business writer, and finally to her great success as a…

This book explores the life of Maya Angelou, the author the autobiographical "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The book details her life from the beginning in Stamps, Arkansas, and relates how she has overcome many obstacles throughout her life to become the successful, educated woman she is today--author, political activist, actress,…

This small book is a handy guide for bringing the work of author Alice Walker into the classroom. It includes biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching "The Color Purple," and a wealth of resources for further investigation of…

"A Millionaire at Sixteen" is the second volume of the "All-Over-the-World" series; and while the book may be read independently of the first, it is the continuation of the adventures of Louis Belgrave, who was presented to the reader in the preceding story. After the first volume, the author hopes to not be accused with being…

Describes a fiction writing workshop with Sir Angus Wilson, an inspiring teacher and author, who showed other teachers how to shift class attention from product to process to person. (MM)