This is My Best: American Greatest Living Authors Present and Give Their Reasons Why

by Whit Burnett (Editor)

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AIken, Conrad (Contributor)
Benchley, Robert (Contributor)
Brooks, Van Wyck (Contributor)
Cabell, James Branch (Contributor)
Caldwell, Erskine (Contributor)
Cather, Willa (Contributor)
Dos Passos, John (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
Ferber, Edna (Contributor)
Glasgow, Ellen (Contributor)
Gunther, John (Contributor)
Hellman, Lillian (Contributor)
Hughes, Langston (Contributor)
Mencken, H. L. (Contributor)
Nash, Ogden (Contributor)
O'Neill, Eugene (Contributor)
Parker, Dorothy (Contributor)
Rukeyser, Muriel (Contributor)
Sandburg, Carl (Contributor)
Saroyan, William (Contributor)
Sinclair, Upton (Contributor)
Steinbeck, John (Contributor)
Van Loon, Hendrik (Contributor)
White, E. B. (Contributor)
Wilder, Thornton (Contributor)
Wright, Richard (Contributor)

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Original publication date
1942
Epigraph
The publisher and the editor wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to John Pen for his editorial assistance and for the original idea of this anthology
First words
(Foreword) In this book ninety-three American authors have chosen the particular work of their own that is closest to their heart.
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English

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
810.822Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishAnthologies and Collections
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PS536 .B8Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureBy period

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