Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series: Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut

Each volume concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre. Entries are generously illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors lives. ( this series has been discontinued, however new Documentary volumes will be published periodically in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series.)