Matthew Josephson (1899–1978)

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1. Isaac Bashevis Singer

   Author of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149), Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V.2 Kafka: Kafka to Passions (Library of America), Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America)

2. John Dos Passos

   Author of Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

3. Clayborne Carson

   Author of Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (Library of America), Reporting Civil Rights, Part Two: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Library of America)

4. Philip Roth

   Author of Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast (Library of America), Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire (Library of America)

5. Henry James

   Author of Henry James: Novels 1896-1899: The Other House / The Spoils of Poynton / What Maisie Knew / The Awkward Age (Library of, Henry James: Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (Library of America)

6. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

7. James Weldon Johnson

   Author of James Weldon Johnson: Writings

8. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

   Author of The Age of Jackson, The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)

9. George S. Kaufman

   Author of Kaufman and Co.: Broadway Comedies (Library of America)

10. David L. Ulin

    Author of Writing Los Angeles

11. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of Writings

12. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Dodsworth, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America #133)

13. Charles W. Chesnutt

    Author of Charles W. Chesnutt Stories, Novels and Essays (Library of America)

14. Washington Irving

    Author of Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives (Library of America)

15. Peter Neill

    Author of American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)

16. Saul Bellow

    Author of Novels, 1944-1953: The Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March

17. Ernest Samuels

    Author of Henry Adams: The Middle Years

18. Nicholas Dawidoff

    Author of Baseball: A Literary Anthology

19. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America)

20. Dawn Powell

    Author of Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (Library of America)