Student's Encyclopediaof American Literary Characters

VOLUME I

A-F

edited by

Matthew J. BruccoliJudith S. Baughman

<acts On FileAn imprint oflnfobase Publishing

CONTENTS

ALL VOLUMES

Indexes of characters and of literary works included in the set are at the back of volume IV.

INTRODUCTION , lviiCONRAD AIKEN 1

"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" 1Paul Hasleman 1

EDWARD ALBEE 2A Delicate Balance 2

Agnes 2Tobias 4

Three Tall Women 5A, B,and C 5

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 6George 6Martha 7

The Zoo Story 9Jerry 9

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 10Little Women 10

March Family 10

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 12The Story of a Bad Boy 12

Tom Bailey 12

SHERMAN ALEXIE 13The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven 13

Victor 13

Reservation Blues 15Thomas Builds-the-Fire 15

NELSON ALGREN 17The Man with the Golden Arm 17

Frankie Machine 17

Never Come Morning 18Bruno "Lefty" Bicek 18

A Walk on the Wild Side 20Dove Linkhorn 20

DOROTHY ALLISON .. .21Bastard out of Carolina 21

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright 21

JULIA ALVAREZ 23How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 23

The Garcia Family 23

LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON .25Speak 25

Melinda Sordino 25

MAXWELL ANDERSON 26The Bad Seed 26

Rhoda Penmark 26

What Price Glory 27Captain Flagg . 27

SHERWOOD ANDERSON 29"I'm a Fool" 29

Walter Mathers 29

Winesburg, Ohio 30Wing Biddlebaum 30Helen White 31George Willard 33

HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW 34The Dollmaker 34

Gertie Nevels 34

ISAAC ASIMOV 36Foundation 36

Hari Seldon 36

I, Robot 38Susan Calvin 38

JEANM.AUEL 40The Clan of the Cave Bear 40

Ayla 40

JAMES BALDWIN 43Another Country 43

Vivaldo Moore 43Ida Scott 44Rufus Scott 45

Go Tell It on the Mountain 47Gabriel Grimes 47John Grimes 48

"Sonny's Blues" 50Sonny 50

Tell Me How Long the Train s Been Gone 51Caleb Proudhammer 51Leo Proudhammer 53

TONI CADE BAMBARA 55

The Salt Eaters 55Velma Henry 55Minnie Ransom 56

RUSSELL BANKS 58

Continental Drift 58Robert Dubois 58

Affliction 59Wade Whitehouse 59

DJUNA BARNES. 61Nightwood 61

Nora Flood 61Matthew O'Connor 63Felix Volkbein 65Robin Vote 66

PHILIP BARRY 68The Animal Kingdom 68

Tom Collier 68

Holiday 70Johnny Case 70

The Philadelphia Story 71Tracy Lord 71

JOHN BARTH 72Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice 72

Ambrose 72

L. FRANK BAUM 74The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 74

Dorothy Gale 74The Wizard of Oz 76

EDWARD BELLAMY 77Looking Backward: 2000-1887 77

Julian West 77

SAUL BELLOW .79The Adventures ofAugie March 79

Augie March 79

Dangling Man 80Joseph 80

Herzog 82Moses Herzog 82

Humboldt's Gift 83Charlie Citrine 83Von Humboldt Fleisher 85

Mr. Sammler's Planet 86Arthur Sammler 86

Seize the Day 89Tommy Wilhelm 89

The Victim 90Asa Leventhal 90

CHERIE BENNETT 92Life in the Fat Lane 92

Lara Ardeche 92

THOMAS BERGER 93Little Big Man 93

Jack Crabb 93Old Lodge Skins 95

ALFRED BESTER 96The Stars My Destination 96

Gully Foyle 96

AMBROSE BIERCE 98"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 98

Peyton Farquhar 98

EARL DERR BIGGERS 99The House without a Key 99

Charlie Chan 99

FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK 101Weetzie Bat 101

Weetzie Bat 101

EDWARD BLOOR 102Tangerine 102

Paul Fisher 102

JUDY BLUME 104Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret 104

Margaret Simon 104

Forever. . . 105Katherine Danziger 105

PAUL BOWLES 107The Sheltering Sky 107

Kit Moresby 107

KAY BOYLE , 108"The White Horses of Vienna" 108

Dr. Heine 108

T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE 110The Tortilla Curtain 110

Delaney Mossbacher 110

RAY BRADBURY. 112Fahrenheit 451 112

Guy Montag 112

Something Wicked This Way Comes 114Charles Halloway 114Will Halloway 115Jim Nightshade 116

BRUCE BROOKS 118' The Moves Make the Man 118

Jerome Foxworthy 118

GWENDOLYN BROOKS 119Maud Martha 119

Maud Martha Brown 119

CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 121Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, part 1 121

Arthur Mervyn 121

Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker 122Clithero Edny 122Edgar Huntly 124

Wieland; or The Transformation 126Francis Carwin 126Clara Wieland 128Theodore Wieland 129

WILLIAM WELLS BROWN 131Clotel; or, The President's Daughter 131

Clotel 131

PEARL S. BUCK 133The Good Earth 133

O-lan 133Wang Lung 134

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 136Tarzan of the Apes 136

Jane Porter 136Tarzan 137

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 139Naked Lunch 139

Dr. Benway 139William Lee 140

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER ....142Kindred 142

Edana Franklin . 142

JAMES BRANCH CABELL . . . 145Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice 145

Jurgen 145

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE 146The Grandissimes 146

Honore Grandissime 146

ABRAHAM CAHAN 148The Rise of David Levinsky 148

David Levinsky 148

JAMES M . C A I N 150Mildred Pierce 150

Mildred Pierce 150

TRUMAN CAPOTE 152Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories 152

Holly Golightly 152

A Christmas Memory" 153Buddy 153

Other Voices, Other Rooms 155Joel Harrison Knox 155

RAYMOND CARVER 157"A Small, Good Thing" 157

Howard Weiss 157

"What We Talk about When We Talk about Love" 158Mel McGinnis 158

ANA CASTILLO 159The Mixquiahuala Letters 159

Teresa 159

WiLLA CATHER 161Death Comes for the Archbishop 161

Jean Marie Latour 161Joseph Vaillant 163

A Lost Lady 164Marian Forrester 164Niel Herbert 166

Lucy Gayheart 167Lucy Gayheart 167

MyAntonia 168Jim Burden 168Lena Lingard 169Antonia Shimerda 170

"Neighbour Rosicky" • 171Anton Rosicky 171

0 Pioneers! 173Alexandra Bergson 173

One of Ours 174Claude Wheeler 174

"Paul's Case" 176Paul 176

The Professor's House 177Tom Outland 177Godfrey St. Peter 179

The Song of the Lark 180Thea Kronborg 180

"A Wagner Matinee" 182Georgiana Carpenter 182

RAYMOND CHANDLER 184The Big Sleep 184

Philip Marlowe 184

The Long Goodbye 185Terry Lennox 185

DENISE CHAVEZ ' , 187The Last of the Menu Girls 187

Rocio Esquibel 187

JOHN CHEEVER 188"The Country Husband" 188

Francis Weed 188

"The Enormous Radio" 190Irene Westcott 190

Falconer 191Ezekiel Farragut 191

"Goodbye, My Brother" 193Lawrence Pommeroy 193

O What a Paradise It Seems 194Lemuel Sears 194

"The Swimmer" 195Neddy Merrill 195

The Wapshot Chronicle 196The Wapshot Family 196

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT ....... 198. The Conjure Woman 198

Aun' Peggy 198Julius McAdoo 199

The House behind the Cedars 200RenaWalden 200

"The Sheriffs Children" 202Sheriff Campbell 202

TRACY CHEVALIER 203Girl with a Pearl Earring 203

Griet 203

FRANK CHIN 205Donald Duk 205

Donald Duk 205

KATE CHOPIN. 207The Awakening 207

Edna Pontellier 207

"De'siree's Baby" 209Desiree 209

Louis CHU 210Eat a Bowl of Tea 210

Wang Ben Loy 210

WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK 212The Ox-Bow Incident 212

Arthur Davies 212Major Tetley " 213

EVAN S. CONNELL 215Mrs. Bridge 215

India Bridge 215Walter Bridge 216

PAT CONROY 218

Beach Music 218Jack McCall 218

The Great Santini 220Meecham Family 220

The Lords of Discipline 222Will McLean 222

The Prince of Tides 223Wingo Family 223

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 225The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative ofl 757 225

Natty Bumppo 225Chingachgook. 227

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea 228Long Tom Coffin 228

ROBERT COOVER 230The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. 230

J. Henry Waugh 230

ROBERT CORMIER : 231The Chocolate War 231

Jerry Renault 231

PATRICIA CORNWELL 232Series 232

Kay Scarpetta 232

JOHN RUSSELL CORYELL .235Series 235

Nick Carter 235

JAMES GOULD COZZENS . .236By Love Possessed 236

Helen Detweiler 236Julius Penrose 238Marjorie Penrose 239Arthur Winner Jr. 240

Guard of Honor 242Colonel Norman Ross and

Captain Nathaniel Hicks 242

The Just and the Unjust 243Abner Coates 243

The Last Adam 245Dr. George Bull 245

Men and Brethren 246Ernest Cudlipp 246

STEPHEN CRANE 248"The Blue Hotel" 248

The Swede 248

"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" 249Scratchy Wilson 249

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 250Maggie Johnson 250

"The Open Boat" 251The Correspondent 251

The Red Badge of Courage . 253Henry Fleming 253

SHARON CREECH 255Walk Two Moons 255

Salamanca Tree Hiddle 255Phoebe Winterbottom 257

MARTCROWLEY .....259The Boys in the Band 259

Harold 259

FREDERIC DANNAY AND MANFRED B. LEE 261Series 261

Ellery Queen 261

EDWIDGE DANTICAT 263Breath, Eyes, Memory 263

Sophie Caco 263

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS 264"Life in the Iron-Mills" 264

Hugh Wolfe 264

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS 266Gallegher and Other Stories 266Van Bibber and Others 266Cinderella and Other Stories 266

Cortlandt Van Bibber 266

DON DELILLO 267Underworld 267

Sister Alma Edgar 267Nick Shay 269

White Noise 271Jack Gladney 271

ELLA CARA DELORIA 273Waterlily 273

Waterlily 273

SARAH DESSEN 275Dreamland 275

Caitlin O'Koren 275

PETE DEXTER 276Paris Trout 276

Paris Trout 276

PHILIP K . D I C K 278Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 278

Rick Deckard 278

Ubik 279Joe Chip 279Glen Runciter 281

JAMES DICKEY 282Deliverance 282

Drew Ballinger 282Ed Gentry . 284Lewis Medlock 285Bobby Trippe 287

JOAN DIDION 288Run River 288

Everett McClellan 288Lily Knight McClellan 290

E. L. DOCTOROW 291Billy Bathgate 291

Billy Bathgate 291

Ragtime 293Tateh 293Coalhouse Walker 294

STEPHEN R. DONALDSON 296The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:

The Unbeliever, 3 volumes 296Thomas Covenant 296

MICHAEL DORRIS . 298A Yellow Raft in Blue Water 298

Rayona 298

JOHN DOS PASSOS 300The 42nd Parallel 300

American Society 300

Manhattan Transfer 305Jimmy Herf 305Ellen Thatcher 306

Three Soldiers 307

Fuselli, Chrisfield, Andrews 307

THEODORE DREISER 309An American Tragedy 309

Clyde Griffiths 309

The Financier 310The Titan 310

Aileen Butler 310Frank Cowperwood 312

The "Genius" 314Angela Blue 314Eugene Witla 315

Jennie Gerhardt 317Jennie Gerhardt 317Lester Kane 318

"The Second Choice" 320Shirley 320

Sister Carrie 321Charles Drouet 321George Hurstwood 322Carrie Meeber 323

EDITH MAUDE EATON (SUI SIN FAR) 327"Mrs. Spring Fragrance" and "The Inferior Woman" 327

Jade Spring Fragrance 327

T.S .ELIOT , ,........: .., 329"The Love Song ofj. Alfred Prufrock" 329

J. Alfred Prufrock 329

HARLAN ELLISON 331"Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" 331

• Everett C. Marm 331

RALPH ELLISON 332Invisible Man 332

Unnamed Protagonist 332

LOUISE ERDRICH 334The Beet Queen 334

Mary Adare 334

Love Medicine 336Marie Kashpaw 336Lulu Lamartine 338Dot Nanapush 339Fleur Pillager 341Pauline Puyat/Sister Leopolda 342

JAMES T. FARRELL 345Young Lonigan 345

Studs Lonigan 345

WILLIAM FAULKNER 347Absalom, Absalom! 347

Thomas Sutpen 347

As I Lay Dying 348The Bundren Family 348

Go Down, Moses 350Lucas Beauchamp 350McCaslin Family 352

The Hamlet 353V. K. Ratliff 353The Snopes Family 355Flem Snopes 357Will Varner 359

Intruder in the Dust 361Charles Mallison Jr. 361

Light in August 362Byron Bunch 362Lena Grove 364Gail Hightower 366Joe Christmas 368Ikkemotubbe (Doom) 370

"A Rose for Emily" 372Emily Grierson 372

Sanctuary 373Temple Drake 373Popeye (Vitelli) 374

The Sound and the Fury 376The Compson Family 376Dilsey Gibson 378

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 381"Absolution" 381

Rudolph Miller 381

"Babylon Revisited" 383Charlie Wales 383

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" 384Bernice 384

The Great Gatsby 386Daisy Fay Buchanan 386Nick Carraway 387Jay Gatsby 389

The Last Tycoon 390The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western 390

Monroe Stahr 390

"The Rich Boy" 391Anson Hunter , 391

Tender Is the Night 393Nicole Diver 393Richard (Dick) Diver 395

This Side of Paradise 396Amory Blaine 396

"Winter Dreams" 397Dexter Green 397Judy Jones 399

RICHARD FORD . .401The Sportswriter 401Independence Day 401The Lay of the Land 401

Frank Bascombe 401

HANNAH FOSTER 402The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton; A Novel;

Founded on Fact 402Eliza Wharton 402

JONATHAN FRANZEN , 404The Corrections 404

The Lambert Family 404

CHARLES FRAZIER .406Cold Mountain 406

Inman 406Ada Monroe 407Ruby Thewes ,409

HAROLD FREDERIC 410"My Aunt Susan" 410

Aunt Susan 410

The Damnation of Theron Ware 411TneronWare 411

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN 413"A New England Nun" 413

Louisa Ellis . 413

"The Revolt of'Mother'" 415Sarah Penn 415

WILLIAM GADDIS 419JR 419

J R Vansant 419

The Recognitions 420Wyatt Gwyon 420

ERNEST J. GAINES 422The Autobiography of

Miss Jane Pittman 422Miss Jane Pittman 422

"Just Like a Tree" 423Aunt Fe . 423

A Lesson before Dying 425Grant Wiggins 425

"The Sky Is Gray" 426James 426

NANCY GARDEN 428Annie on My Mind 428

Liza Winthrop 428

JOHN GARDNER 430Grendel 430

Grendel 430

Nickel Mountain 431Henry Soames 431Calliope Wells 432

HAMLIN GARLAND 434"The Return of the Private" 434

Edward Smith 434

"Under the Lion's Paw" 435Tim and Nettie Haskins 435

GEORGE GARRETT 436Death of the Fox 436

Sir Walter Ralegh 436

ELIZABETH GEORGE 438A Great Deliverance 438

Barbara Havers 438Thomas Lynley 440

KAYE GIBBONS 441Ellen Foster 441

Ellen Foster 441

WILLIAM GIBSON 443The Miracle Worker 443

Annie Sullivan 443

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 445The Yellow Wallpaper, A Novella 445

Unnamed Narrator 445

ELLEN GLASGOW 447Barren Ground 447

Dorinda Oakley 447Nathan Pedlar 448

The Sheltered Life ' 450Jenny Blair Archibald 450George Birdsong 452

Vein of Iron 453Ada Fincastle 453John Fincastle 455

SUSAN GLASPELL 456Trifles 456

Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale 456

SUEGRAFTON 458"A" Is for Alibi 458

Kinsey Millhone 458

JOHN GUARE 460Six Degrees of Separation 460

Ouisa Kittredge 460

DAVID GUTERSON 462Snow Falling on Cedars 462

Ishmael Chambers 462Hatsue Miyamoto 463

EDWARD EVERETT HALE 465"The Man without a Country" 465

Philip Nolan 465

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON 466The Clockmaker; or The Sayings and Doings

of Samuel Slick, ofSlickville 466Sam Slick 466

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II 468Carousel 468

Billy Bigelow 468

Oklahoma! 469Curly 469

South Pacific . 470Nellie Forbush 470

DASHIELL HAMMETT 472The Maltese Falcon 472

Brigid O'Shaughnessy 472Sam Spade • 474

Red Harvest 476The Continental Op 476

The Thin Man 477Nick and Nora Charles 477

LORRAINE HANSBERRY 479A Raisin in the Sun 479

Younger Family 479

GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS 481Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a

"Nat'ralBorn Durn'dFool" Warpedand Wove for Public Wear 481

Sut Lovingood 481

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS 483Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings 483

Brer Rabbit 483Uncle Remus 484

THOMAS HARRIS 486The Silence of the Lambs 486

Hannibal Lecter 486

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 487"The Birthmark" 487

Aylmer ' 487

The Blithedale Romance 488Miles Coverdale 488Zenobia .490

"Ethan Brand" 491Ethan Brand 491

"The Gray Champion" 492The Gray Champion 492

The House of the Seven Gables 494Holgrave 494The Pyncheon Family 495

The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni 497Donatello 497Hilda 498Miriam 499

"The Minister's Black Veil" 501Reverend Hooper 501

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" 502Robin 502

"Rappaccini's Daughter" 503Beatrice Rappaccini 503

The Scarlet Letter 505Roger Chillingworth 505Arthur Dimmesdale 506Pearl 507Hester Prynne 508

"Wakefield" 510Wakefield 510

"Young Goodman Brown" 511Goodman Brown 511

LAFCADIO HEARN : 513Chita: A Memory of Last Island 513

Chita . 513

BEN HECHT 514The Front Page 514

Hildy Johnson 514

LARRY HEINEMANN 516Paco's Story 516

Paco Sullivan 516

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN 517Stranger in a Strange Land 517

Valentine Michael Smith 517

JOSEPH HELLER 518Catch-22 518

Milo Minderbinder 518John Yossarian 520

Good as Gold 522Bruce Gold 522

Something Happened 524Bob Slocum 524

We Bombed in New Haven 525Captain Starkey 525

LILLIAN HELLMAN 527The Autumn Garden 527

Nicholas Denery 527

The Children's Hour 529Karen Wright and Martha Dobie 529

The Little Foxes ,. 531Regina Hubbard Giddens 531Birdie Bagtry Hubbard 532

Watch on the Rhine 534Kurt Miiller 534

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 536

Across the River and into the Trees 536Richard Cantwell 536Renata 537

"Big Two-Hearted River" 539Nick Adams 539

A Farewell to Arms 541Catherine Barkley 541Frederic Henry 542

For Whom the Bell. Tolls 544Robert Jordan 544Maria 546Pilar 548

The Old Man and the Sea 549Santiago 549

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" . 552Francis Macomber 552

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" 553Harry Walden 553

The Sun Also Rises 555Brett Ashley 555Jake Barnes 556Robert Cohn . 558

To Have and Have Not 559Harry Morgan 559

BETH HENLEY 562

Crimes of the Heart 562MaGrath Sisters 562

FRANK HERBERT 563

Dune 563PaulAtreides ' 563

KAREN HESSE 564

Out of the Dust • 564Billiejo 564

DUBOSE HEYWARD AND IRA GERSHWIN .566Porgy and Bess 566

Bess 566Porgy 567

GEORGE V. HIGGINS 568

The Friends of Eddie Coyle 568Eddie Coyle 568

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 569

The Talented Mr. Ripley 569Tom Ripley 569

OSCAR HIJUELOS 571

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 571Cesar Castillo 571Nestor Castillo 573

TONY HILLERMAN 574

Series 574Joe Leaphorn 574

CHESTER HIMES 576Series 576

Grave Digger Johnson and Coffin Ed Jones 576

"His Last Day" 577"Spats" Wilson 577

If He Hollers, Let Him Go 578Robert "Bob" Jones 578

ROLANDO HINOJOSA-SMITH 580

Series 580Rafe Buenrostro 580Jehu Malacara 581

S.E. HINTON , 583The Outsiders 583

Ponyboy Curtis 583

LINDA HOGAN 584Solar Storms 584

Angel Wing , 584Bush 585

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 587"Editha" 587

Editha Balcom 587

A Hazard of New Fortunes 588Basil March 588

A Modern Instance 590Marcia Gaylord 590Bartley Hubbard 592

The Rise of Silas Lapham 594Silas Lapham 594

JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS 595Rich in Love 595

Lucille Odom 595

ZORANEALEHURSTON 597Their Eyes Were Watching God 597

Janie Crawford 597Joe Starks 599Vergible Woods (Tea Cake) 600

DAVID HENRYHWANG 602M. Butterfly 602

Rene Gallimard 602

WILLIAM INGE .605Bus Stop 605

Cherie 605

Come Back, Little Sheba 607Lola Delaney 607

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 608Cora Flood 608

Picnic 610Madge Owens 610

JOHN IRVING 612The Cider House Rules 612

Wilbur Larch 612

The World According to Garp 614T. S. Garp 614

A Prayer for Owen Meany ' 616John Wheelwright 616

WASHINGTON IRVING 617A History of New-York 617

Diedrich Knickerbocker 617

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 619Brom Bones 619Ichabod Crane 620

"Rip Van Winkle" 622Rip Van Winkle 622

SHIRLEY JACKSON 625The Haunting of Hill House 625

Eleanor Vance 625

HENRY JAMES 626The Ambassadors 626

Chadwick (Chad) Newsome 626Lambert Strether 628

The American 630Christopher Newman 630

"The Aspern Papers" 631The Literary Historian 631

"The Beast in the Jungle" 633John Marcher 633

The Bostonians 635Verena Tarrant 635

Daisy Miller 637Daisy Miller 637Frederick Forsyth Winterbourne 638

The Golden Bowl 640Prince Amerigo 640Charlotte Stant 642Adam Verver 643Maggie Verver 644

"The Jolly Corner" 646Spencer Brydon 646

The Portrait of a Lady 647Isabel Archer 647Gilbert Osmond 648Ralph Touchett , 650

"The Pupil" 651Morgan Moreen 651Pemberton 652

"The Real Thing" 653Major and Mrs. Marchant 653

The Turn of the Screw 654The Governess 654Miss Jessel 656Peter Quint 658

Washington Square 659Catherine Sloper 659

What Maisie Knew 661Maisie Farange 661

The Wings of the Dove 662Kate Croy 662Merton Densher 664MillyTheale 665

GISHJEN 668Typical American • 668

Ralph Chang, Helen Chang,and Theresa Chang 668

SARAH ORNEJEWETT 670The Country of the Pointed Firs 670

Almira Todd and Joanna Todd 670

"A White Heron" 671Sylvia 671

CHARLES JOHNSON 673Middle Passage 673

Rutherford Calhoun 673

OWEN MCMAHON JOHNSON 674Stover at Yale 674

Dink Stover 674

JAMES JONES 675From Here to Eternity 67S

Angelo Maggio 675Robert E. Lee Prewitt 677Milton Anthony Warden 678

The Pistol • 680Richard Mast 680

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN . 683Animal Crackers 683

Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding 683

Beggar on Horseback 684NeilMcRae 684

Dinner at Eight 685Millicent Jordan 685Larry Renault 686

June Moon 688Paul Sears 688

The Man Who Came to Dinner 690Sheridan Whiteside 690

The Royal Family 691The Cavendish Family 691

Stage Door • 693Terry Randall 693

You Can't Take It With You 695Vanderhof/Sycamore Family 695

WILLIAM KENNEDY 697Ironweed 697

Francis Phelan 697

JACK KEROUAC . . . 6 9 9The Dharma Bums 699

Japhy Ryder 699Raymond Smith 700

On the Road 701Dean Moriarty 701Sal Paradise 703

The Subterraneans 705Mardou Fox 705Leo Percepied 706

KENKESEY 708One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 708

Chief Bromden 708Randle McMurphy 709

Sometimes a Great Notion 710Hank Stamper 710Lee Stamper 711

DANIEL KEYES 713'Flowers for Algernon" 713

Charlie Gordon 713

SIDNEY KINGSLEY 715Dead End 715

The Dead End Kids 715

Detective Story 717Jim McLeod 717

BARBARA KINGSOLVER 718The Poisonwood Bible 718

Price Family 718

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 720China Men 720

Ah Goong 720BaBa 721Bak Goong, Great Grandfather

of the Sandalwood Mountains 723

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 725Wittman Ah Sing 725

The Woman Warrior 726Brave Orchid 726Maxine 728Moon Orchid 730No Name Woman 731

JOHNKNOWLES 733A Separate Peace 733

Gene Forrester 733Phineas 735

JERZY KOSINSKI 737The Painted Bird 737

Unnamed Protagonist 737

TONY KUSHNER 738Angels in America • 738

Prior Walter 738

OLIVER LA FARGE 741Laughing Boy , 741

Laughing Boy 741

JHUMPA LAHIRI 743The Namesake 743

Gogol Ganguli 743

Louis L'AMOUR 744Hondo 744

Hondo Lane 744

RING W. LARDNER 746"Champion" 746

Midge Kelly 746

You Know Me Al 748Jack Keefe 748

ARTHUR LAURENTS 750Gypsy: A Musical Fable 750

Mama Rose 750

JEROME LAWRENCE 751Auntie Mame 751

Auntie Mame 751

Inherit the Wind 753Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond 753

URSULA K. LE GUIN 755The Dispossessed 755

Shevek 755

The Left Hand of Darkness 756GenlyAi 756

A Wizard ofEarthsea 757Ged 757

CHANG-RAELEE 759Native Speaker 759

Henry Park 759

GUSLEE. . . . '....760China Boy 760

Kai Ting 760

HARPER LEE 762To Kill a Mockingbird 762

Atticus Finch 762Scout Finch , 763

FRITZ LEIBER 765Series 765

Fafhrd 765Gray Mouser 767

GAIL CARSON LEVINE 768Ella Enchanted 768

Ella 768

SINCLAIR LEWIS 769Arrowsmith 769

Martin Arrowsmith 769Leora Tozer 771

Babbitt 772George F. Babbitt 772

Dodsworth 774Sam Dodsworth 774

Elmer Gantry 775Elmer Gantry 775

Kingsblood Royal 777Neil Kingsblood 777

Main Street 778Carol Kennicott 778Will Kennicott 779

HOWARD LINDSAY 781Life with Father 781

The Day Family " 781

Ross LOCKRIDGE JR 783Raintree County 783

John Wickliff Shawnessy 783Susanna Drake Shawnessy 784Jerusalem Webster Stiles 786

JACK LONDON ... 788The Call of the Wild 788

, Buck 788

The Iron Heel 789Avis Everhard • . . 789Ernest Everhard 790

Martin Eden 792Martin Eden 792Ruth Morse 793

The Sea-Wolf , 795WolfLarsen 795Humphrey Van Weyden 796

White Fang 798White Fang 798

ANITA Loos 799"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating

Diary of a Professional Lady 799Lorelei Lee 799

LOISLOWRY 801The Giver 801

Jonas 801

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE 802The Women 802

MaryHaines 802

ROBERT LUDLUM 804Series 804

Jason Bourne 804

JOHN D. MACDONALD 807Series 807

Travis McGee 807

ROSS MACDONALD (KENNETH MlLLAR) 809Series 809

Lew Archer 809

NORMAN MAILER 810An American Dream 810

Stephen Rojack 810

The Naked and the Dead 813Sgt. Sam Croft 813Gen. Edward Cummings 814Lt. Robert Hearn 815

BERNARD MALAMUD 817The Assistant 817

Frank Alpine 817Morris Bober 818

The Fixer 819Yakov Bok 819

"The Magic Barrel" 821Leo Finkle ' 821

The Natural 822Roy Hobbs 822

DON MARQUIS 824Archy and Mehitabel 824

Archy 824Mehitabel 826

PAULE MARSHALL 827Brown Girl, Brownstones 827

Selina Boyce 827

VICTOR MARTINEZ 829Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida 829

Manuel Hernandez 829

BOBBIE ANN MASON 831In Country 831

Samantha Hughes 831

"Shiloh" 833Leroy Moffitt 833

PETER MATTHIESSEN 834At Play in the Fields of the Lord 834

Lewis Moon 834

CORMAC MCCARTHY 836All the Pretty Horses 836

Jimmy Blevins 836John Grady Cole 837

CARSON MCCULLERS 839The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 839

Amelia Evans 839

The Member of the Wedding 841Frankie Addams 841Berenice Sadie Brown 842

ALICE MCDERMOTT 844Charming Billy 844

Billy Lynch 844

Child of My Heart 846Theresa 846

TERRY MCMILLAN , 848Waiting to Exhale 848

Bernadine Harris 848Savannah Jackson 849Gloria Matthews 850Robin Stokes 852

LARRY MCMURTRY 853The Last Picture Show 853

Sonny Crawford 853

Lonesome Dove 854Woodrow Call 854Augustus McCrae 856

HERMAN MELVILLE 858"Bartleby the Scrivener:

A Story of Wall Street" 858Bartleby 858

"Benito Cereno" 860Benito Cereno 860Amasa Delano 861

Billy Budd, Sailor 862Billy Budd 862John Claggart 864Edward Vere 865

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade 867The Confidence-Man 867

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile 869Israel Potter 869

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale 871Ahab 871The Harpooners: Queequeg, Tashtego,

and-Daggoo 873Ishmael 874The Mates: Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask 876

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities 877Pierre Glendinning 877

Redburn: His First Voyage. Being theSailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences

of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in theMerchant Service 879

Wellingborough Redburn 879

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War 880White-Jacket 880

ARTHUR MILLER 883All My Sons 883

Joe Keller 883

The Crucible 885John Proctor 885

Death of a Salesman 886BiffLoman 886Willy Loman 887

A View from the Bridge 889Eddie Carbone 889

STEVEN MILLHAUSER 890

Martin Dressier: The Tale ofan American Dreamer 890

Martin Dressier 890

MARGARET MITCHELL 892Gone with the Wind 892

Rhett Butler 892Scarlett O'Hara 893

N. SCOTT MOMADAY 894House Made of Dawn 894

Abel 894John Tosamah 896

ROBERT MORGAN 898Gap Creek 898

Julie Harmon 898

KYOKOMORI .900Shizuko's Daughter 900

Yuki Okuda . 900

TONI MORRISON 901Beloved 901

Beloved 901Paul D Garner 902Sethe Suggs 904

The Bluest Eye . 905The Breedlove Family 905

Song of Solomon , 907Milkman Dead 907

Sula 909Sula Peace 909Shadrack 911Nel Wright 912

MOURNING DOVE (HUM-ISHU-MA) 914Cogewea, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the

Great Montana Cattle Range, by Hum-ishu-ma,"Mourning Dove". . . Given through Sho-pow-tan,with Notes and Biographical Sketchby Lucullus Virgil McWhorter 914

Cogewea 914

WALTER D E A N MYERS 916

Monster 916Steve Harmon 916

VLADIMIR NABOKOV 919

Lolita 919Lolita Haze 919Humbert Humbert 920

Pale Fire 922Charles Kinbote 922

Pnin 923Timofey Pnin 923

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight 925V. 925

MARSHA NORMAN 926Night, Mother 926

Jessie Cates 926

FRANK NORRIS 928McTeague: A Story of San Francisco 928

Mac McTeague 928Trina Sieppe 930

The Pit 931Curtis Jadwin 931Laura Jadwin 933

JOYCE CAROL OATES 935"Where Are You Going,

Where Have You Been?" 935Connie , 935Arnold Friend 936

TIM O'BRIEN 938Going After Cacciato 938

Paul Berlin 938Cacciato 940

In the Lake of the Woods 942John Wade 942

FLANNERY O'CONNOR 944"The Artificial Nigger" 944

Mr. Head 944Nelson 946

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" 948Julian Chestny 948

"Good Country People" 949Hulga (Joy) Hopewell 949Manley Pointer 951

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 952The Grandmother 952

"Greenleaf" 954Mrs. May 954

"Revelation" 955Ruby Turpin 955

The Violent Bear It Away 957Francis Marion Tarwater 957

Wise Blood 959Hazel Motes 959

CLIFFORD ODETS 961Awake and Sing! 961

The Berger Family 961

The Big Knife 962Charlie Castle 962

The Country Girl 964Frank and Georgie Elgin 964

Golden Boy, 965Joe Bonaparte 965Lorna Moon 966

Waiting for Lefty ' 968Agate Keller 968

JOHNO'HARA 969Appointment in Samarra 969

Julian English 969

Butterfield 8 971Gloria Wandrous 971

"The Doctor's Son" 972James Malloy 972

"Imagine Kissing Pete" 973Pete McCrea and Bobbie Hammersmith 973

Pal Joey 975Joey Evans 975

Ten North Frederick 976Joe Chapin 976

JOHN OKADA 977No-No Boy 977

Ichiro Yamada 977Kenji Kanno 979

EUGENE O'NEILL 980Ah, Wilderness! 980

Miller Family 980

Anna Christie 982Anna Christie 982

Beyond the Horizon 983Robert Mayo 983

Desire under the Elms 984Abbie Putnam Cabot 984Eben Cabot 986Ephraim Cabot 987

The Emperor Jones 987Brutus Jones 987

The Great God Brown 989Dion Brown 989

The Hairy Ape 991Yank 991

The Iceman Cometh 992Theodore "Hickey" Hickman ' 992Harry Hope 994Larry Slade 995

Long Day's Journey into Night 997Edmund Tyrone 997James Tyrone 999Jamie Tyrone - 1000Mary Tyrone 1002

A Moon for the Misbegotten 1003Josie Hogan 1003

Mourning Becomes Electra 1005Mannon Family 1005

CYNTHIA OZICK 1008"The Shawl" and "Rosa" 1008

Rosa Lublin 1008

SARA PARETSKY 1011Series 1011

V. I. Warshawski 1011

DOROTHY PARKER 1013"Big Blonde" 1013

Hazel Morse 1013

SUZAN-LORI PARKS 1015Topdog/Underdog 1015

Booth 1015

ANNPATCHETT 1016Bel Canto 1016

Roxane Coss 1016Katsumi Hosokawa 1018

RICHARD PECK 1019A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories 1019

Grandma Dowdel 1019

ROBERT NEWTON PECK ; 1021A Day No Pigs Would Die 1021

Haven 1021Robert • 1022

WALKER PERCY 1023Lancelot 1023

Lancelot Lamar ( 1023

The Last Gentleman 1025Will Barrett ; 1025

Love in the Ruins 1027Tom More 1027

The Moviegoer 1028John Bickerson "Binx" Boiling 1028Kate Cutrer 1030

ANNPETRY 1031The Street 1031

Lutie Johnson 1031

RODMAN PHILBRICK 1033Freak the Mighty 1033

Freak . 1033Max Kane 1034

DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS 1036Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise 1036

Robert Brent 1036Susan Lenox 1037Roderick Spenser 1039

SYLVIA PLATH 1041The Bell Jar 1041

Esther Greenwood 1041

EDGAR ALLAN POE 1043"The Cask of Amontillado" 1043

Montresor 1043

"The Gold-Bug" 1044William Legrand 1044

"Ligeia" 1046Ligeia 1046

FREDERIK POHL 1048"Day Million" 1048

Dora 1048

Gateway . 1049BobBroadhead 1049

FREDERIK POHL AND C. M. KORNBLUTH 1050The Space Merchants 1050

Mitchell Courtenay 1050

ELEANOR PORTER 1051Pollyanna 1051

Pollyanna 1051

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 1052"The Downward Path to Wisdom" 1052

Stephen 1052

"Flowering Judas" . 1054Laura 1054

"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" 1055Ellen (Granny) Weatherall 1055

"The Leaning Tower" 1057Charles Upton 1057

"Maria Concepcion" 1058Maria Concepcion 1058

"The Old Order" 1059Miranda Gay 1059

Ship of Fools 1061Jenny Brown . 1061Dr. Schumann 1063Mary Treadwell 1064

EZRA POUND 1066"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" 1066

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 1066

J.F. POWERS 1068"Prince of Darkness" • 1068

Father Ernest Burner 1068

REYNOLDS PRICE 1069

A Long and Happy Life 1069Rosacoke Mustian 1069

ANNIE PROULX 1071The Shipping News 1071

Quoyle 1071

MARIO Puzo 1073The Godfather 1073

The Corleone Family 1073

THOMAS PYNCHON 1074The Crying of Lot 49 1074

Oedipa Maas 1074

Gravity's Rainbow 1076Tyrone Slothrop 1076

V. 1078Benny Profane 1078Herbert Stencil 1079

DAVID RABE 1083Hurlyburly 1083

Eddie 1083

Streamers 1084Billy 1084

AYNRAND 1086Atlas Shrugged 1086

Dagny Taggart 1086

The Fountainhead 1087Dominique Francon 1087Howard Roark 1089

ISHMAEL REED 1091Flight to Canada 1091

Raven Qyickskill 1091

Mumbo Jumbo 1092PaPa LaBas 1092Hinckle Von Vampton 1094

ELMER RICE 1095The Adding Machine 1095

Mr. Zero 1095

CONRAD RICHTER 1097The Sea of Grass 1097

Hal Brewton 1097Jim Brewton 1098Lutie Brewton 1099

ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS 1101The Time of Man 1101

Ellen Chesser 1101

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 1102"Luke Havergal" 1102

Luke Havergal 1102

"Miniver Cheevy" 1104Miniver Cheevy 1104

"Mr. Flood's Party" 1106Eben Flood 1106

"Richard Cory" 1107Richard Cory 1107

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON 1109"The Lucky Strike" 1109

Frank January 1109

MARILYNNE ROBINSON ; 1110Housekeeping 1110

Ruth Stone 1110

O . E . R6LVAAG 1112Giants in the Earth 1112

Beret Hansa 1112PerHansa 1113

HENRY ROTH 1115Call It Sleep 1115

David Schearl 1115

PHILIP ROTH 1116American Pastoral 1116

Seymour "Swede" Levov 1116

"The Conversion of the Jews" 1118Oscar (Ozzie) Freedman 1118

"Defender of the Faith" 1119Private Sheldon Grossbart 1119Sergeant Nathan Marx 1121

"Eli, the Fanatic" 1122Eli Peck 1122

The Ghost Writer 1124Nathan Zuckerman 1124

"Goodbye, Columbus" 1126Neil Klugman 1126

Portnoy's Complaint 1127Alexander Portnoy 1127Mary Jane Reed 1129

SUSANNA ROWSON 1130Charlotte: A Tale of Truth 1130

Charlotte Temple 1130

DAMON RUNYON 1132Guys and Dolls 1132

Nathan Detroit 1132Sky Masterson 1134

JOANNA RUSS 1135The Female Man 1135

Janet Evason . 1135

RICHARD RUSSO 1137Empire Falls 1137

Miles Roby 1137

CYNTHIA RYLANT 1139Missing May 1139

Summer 1139

Louis SACHAR 1141Holes 1141

Stanley Yelnats 1141Zero 1142

J. D. SALINGER 1143The Catcher in the Rye 1143

Holden Caulfield 1143

"For Esme'—with Love and Squalor" 1145Esme 1145Sergeant X 1146

"A PerfectDay forBananafish" 1148"Down at the Dinghy" 1148"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" 1148Franny and Zooey 1148Raise High the Roof Beam,

Carpenters and 1148Seymour: An Introduction 1148"Hapworth 16, 1924" 1148

The Glass Family 1148

DORI SANDERS 1150Clover 1150

Clover Hill 1150

MARI SANDOZ 1152Old Jules 1152

Jules Sandoz 1152

WILLIAM SAROYAN 1154The Human Comedy 1154

Homer Macauley 1154Thomas Spangler 1155

JACK SCHAEFER 1157Shane 1157

Shane 1157Joe Starrett 1158

BUDD SCHULBERG 1159The Disenchanted 1159

Manley Halliday 1159

What Makes Sammy Run? 1161Sammy Glick 1161

ALICE SEBOLD 1163The Lovely Bones 1163

Susie Salmon 1163

SAM SHEPARD 1164True West 1164

Austin 1164Lee 1165

LESLIE MARMON SILKO 1167Ceremony 1167

Betonie 1167Tayo 1169

DAN SIMMONS 1171Hyperion 1171

The Shrike 1171

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS 1172"How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and Wife" 1172

Sharp Snaffles 1172

The Partisan 1174Robert Singleton 1174

Katharine Walton 1175Katharine Walton 1175

The Partisan . 1176Mellichampe 1176Katharine Walton 1176The Sword and the Distaff 1176

The Forayers 1176

Eutaw 1176Porgy 1176Tom 1178

The Yemassee 1179Sanutee 1179

NEIL SIMON 1181

Brighton Beach Memoirs 1181

Biloxi Blues 1181

Broadway Bound 1181Eugene Jerome 1181

The Odd Couple 1183Oscar Madison 1183Felix Ungar 1185

The Sunshine Boys 1187Willie Clark 1187

UPTON SINCLAIR 1188

Thejungle 1188Ona Lukoszaite 1188Jurgis Rudkus 1190

World's End 1191Lanny Budd 1191

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER 1193

"Gimpel the Fool" 1193Gimpel 1193

BETTY SMITH. 1195

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1195Francie Nolan 1195

STEPHENSONDHEIM 1196

Company 1196Robert 1196

TERRY SOUTHERN 1198

Candy 1198Candy Christian 1198

ELIZABETH SPENCER 1199

"First Dark" 1199Tom Beavers 1199

MICKEY SPILLANE 1201I, the Jury . 1201

Mike Hammer 1201

JOHN STEINBECK 1202Cannery Row 1202

Doc 1202

"The Chrysanthemums" 1204Elisa Allen 1204

East of Eden 1205Lee 1205Trask Family 1206

The Grapes of Wrath 1207Jim Casy 1207The Joad Family 1209

In Dubious Battle 1210(Mac)McLeod 1210Jim Nolan 1211

Of Mice and Men 1213George Milton 1213Lennie Small 1215

The Pearl 1216Kino 1216

The Red Pony 1217Billy Buck 1217Jody Tifflin 1218

"The White Quail" 1220Mary Teller 1220

ELIZABETH STODDARD 1222The Morgesons • 1222

Cassandra Morgeson 1222

REX STOUT 1223Fer-de-Lance 1223

Nero Wolfe 1223

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1225Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly , 1225

Eliza Harris 1225Simon Legree 1226Evangeline St. Clare 1227Topsy 1229Uncle Tom 1230

STRATEMEYER SYNDICATE 1232The Hardy Boys Series 1232

The Hardy Boys 1232

Nancy Drew Series 1234Nancy Drew 1234

Tom Swift Series 1235Tom Swift 1235

WILLIAM STYRON 1237

The Confessions of Nat Turner 1237Nat Turner 1237

Lie Down in Darkness 1238The Loftis Family 1238

Sophie's Choice 1241Nathan Landau 1241Stingo 1242Sophie Zawistowska 1243

AMYTAN 1247

The Joy Luck Club 1247An-mei Hsu 1247Lindo Jong 1248Ying Ying St. Clair 1249Jing-mei Woo 1250

BOOTH TARKINGTON 1251

The Magnificent Ambersons 1251George Amberson Minafer 1251Isabel Amberson Minafer 1253

Penrod 1255Penrod Schofield 1255

MILDRED TAYLOR 1256Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1256

Cassie Logan 1256

JAMES THURBER 1258"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 1258

Walter Mitty 1258

JOHN KENNEDYTOOLE. 1259

A Confederacy of Dunces 1259Ignatius J. Reilly ' 1259

JEAN TOOMER 1261"Blood-Burning Moon" 1261

Louisa 1261

"Bona and Paul" 1262Bona 1262Paul 1264

"Esther" 1266Esther 1266

DALTON TRUMBO .1267Johnny Got His Gun 1267

Joe Bonham 1267

MARK TWAIN

(SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS). 1269Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1269

Huckleberry Finn 1269The Grangerfords 1271Jim 1273

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1274Tom Sawyer 1274Becky Thatcher 1276

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras County" 1277Jim Smiley 1277

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1278Hank Morgan 1278

"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" 1280Edward Richards 1280

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson,and the Comedy, ThoseExtraordinary Twins 1282

Thomas Driscoll (a.k.a. Valet de Chambers) 1282Pudd'nhead Wilson 1283

ANNE TYLER 1285The Accidental Tourist 1285

Macon Leary - 1285

Breathing Lessons 1287Ira Moran 1287Maggie Moran 1288

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 1289Ezra Tull 1289Pearl Tull 1290

ROYALL TYLER 1292The Contrast 1292

Colonel Henry Manly 1292

JOHN UPDIKE 1295"A & P" 1295

Sammy 1295

The Centaur 1296George Caldwell 1296Peter Caldwell 1298

The Complete Henry Bech 1299Henry Bech 1299

Of the Farm 1301Joey Robinson 1301

"Pigeon Feathers" 1302David Kern 1302

Rabbit Angstrom: The four novels 1304Harry Angstrom 1304

LEON URIS 1306Exodus 1306

Ari Ben Canaan 1306Karen Hansen Clement 1308Kitty Freemont 1310

S. S. VAN DINE (WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT) 1313Series 1313

Philo Vance 1313

GERALD VIZENOR 1314Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart 1314

Proude Cedarfair 1314

CYNTHIA VOIGT 1316Dicey's Song 1316

Dicey 1316

KURT VONNEGUT JR 1318Breakfast of Champions 1318

Kilgore Trout 1318

Cat's Cradle 1319Bokonon 1319John 1321

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 1322Rosewater Family 1322

The Sirens of Titan 1324Malachi Constant 1324Beatrice "Bee" Rumfoord 1325Winston Niles Rumfoord 1326

Slaughterhouse-Five 1327Billy Pilgrim 1327

ALICE WALKER 1331The Color Purple 1331

Albert (Mister) 1331Shug Avery 1332Celie 1333Nettie 1334

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 1336Infinite Jest 1336

HalIncandenza 1336

LEW WALLACE 1337Ben-Hur:A Tale of the Christ 1337

Judah Ben-Hur 1337

ROBERT PENN WARREN 1339All the King's Men 1339

Jack Burden 1339Willie Stark 1341

WENDY WASSERSTEIN 1343An American Daughter 1343

Lyssa Dent Hughes 1343

The Heidi Chronicles 1344Heidi Holland 1344

Uncommon Women and Others 1346Kate Quinn 1346

JAMES WELCH 1347Fools Crow 1347

White Man's Dog/Fools Crow 1347

Winter in the Blood 1349Unnamed Narrator 1349

EUDORAWELTY 1350"A Curtain of Green" 1350

Mrs. Larkin 1350

"Death of a Traveling Salesman" 1352R. J. Bowman 1352

"Flowersfor Marjorie" 1353Howard 1353

"Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" 1354Lily Daw 1354

Losing Battles 1356Gloria Short Renfro 1356Jack Renfro 1357

"Petrified Man" 1359Leota 1359

"Why I Live at the P. 0." 1360Sister 1360

"A Worn Path" 1361Phoenix Jackson 1361

NATHANAEL WEST 1363A Cool Million or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin 1363

Lemuel Pitkin 1363Betty Prail 1365

The Day of the Locust 1366Faye Greener 1366Tod Hackett 1368Homer Simpson 1369

Miss Lonelyhearts 1371Miss Lonelyhearts 1371

EDITH WHARTON 1374

The Age of Innocence 1374Newland Archer 1374

The House of Mirth 1375Lily Bart 1375Simon Rosedale 1377Lawrence Selden 1379

"Roman Fever" 1380Alida Slade and Grace Ansley 1380

WILLIAM WHARTON 1382Birdy 1382

Birdy 1382

E.B. WHITE 1383Charlotte's Web 1383

Charlotte 1383Wilbur 1385

Stuart Little 1386Stuart Little 1386

THORNTON WILDER 1388The Matchmaker 1388

Dolly Levi 1388Horace Vandergelder 1389

Our Town 1390Stage Manager 1390Emily Webb 1391

The Skin of Our Teeth 1393Antrobus Family 1393Sabina 1394

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 1395Camino Real 1395

Kilroy 1395

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1397Big Daddy Pollitt 1397Brick Pollitt 1399Maggie Pollitt 1400

The Glass Menagerie , 1401Amanda Wingfield 1401Laura Wingfield 1403Tom Wingfield 1404

The Night of the Iguana 1405T. Lawrence Shannon 1405

Orpheus Descending 1406Valentine Xavier 1406

A Streetcar Named Desire 1407Blanche DuBois 1407Stanley Kowalski 1409

Summer and Smoke 1411Alma Winemiller 1411

Sweet Bird of Youth 1412Chance Wayne 1412

MEREDITH WILLSON 1414The Music Man 1414

Harold Hill 1414

AUGUST WILSON 1416Joe Turner's Come and Gone 1416

Herald Loomis 1416

King Hedley II 1417King Hedley II 1417

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 1418Levee 1418

The Piano Lesson 1420Boy Willie 1420Berniece Charles 1421

Seven Guitars 1423Schoolboy Barton 1423

Two Trains Running 1424Holloway 1424

LANFORD WILSON 1425Fifth of July 1425

Kenneth Talley 1425

The Hot I Baltimore 1427April Green 1427

Lemon Sky . 1428Alan 1428

OWEN WISTER 1429The Virginian: A Horseman

of the Plains 1429The Virginian 1429

GENE WOLFE 1431The Book of the New Sun 1431

Severian 1431

THOMAS WOLFE 1432Look Homeward, Angel 1432

Ben Gant 1432Eugene Gant 1434Julia Gant/Eliza Gant 1436W. O. Gant 1438

The Web and the Rock 1439You Can't Go Home Again 1439

Esther Jack 1439George Webber 1441

TOM WOLFE 1443Bonfire of the Vanities 1443

Peter Fallow 1443Sherman McCoy 1445

HERMAN WOUK 1446The Caine Mutiny 1446

Willie Keith 1446Philip Queeg 1448

Marjorie Morningstar 1449Noel Airman 1449Marjorie Morningstar 1451

RICHARD WRIGHT 1453Native Son . 1453

Bigger Thomas 1453

RICHARD YATES 1455Revolutionary Road 1455

April Wheeler 1455Frank Wheeler 1456

Z I T K A L A - S A •. 1459

"The Trial Path" 1459Grandmother 1459

INDEX OF CHARACTERS 1463

INDEX OF LITERARY WORKS 1471