Margolies, Edward

Native sons : a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors by Edward Margolies( Book )

31 editions published between 1968 and 1971 in English and Japanese and held by 1,862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Also includes material on W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen

The several lives of Chester Himes by Edward Margolies( )

11 editions published between 1997 and 2008 in English and held by 1,833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Writings of Chester Himes are colored by a fascinating blend of hatred and tenderness, of hard-boiled realism and generous idealism. His life was complex, his relationships complicated. How did this gifted son of a respectable southern black family become a juvenile delinquent? How did he acquire self-esteem and a new sense of identity by writing short stories while in the Ohio state penitentiary? Drawn from his letters, notebooks, memoirs, and fiction, this straightforward account of Himes's varied, episodic life attempts to trace the origins of his significant literary gift. It details the socioeconomic, familial, and cultural background that fed his ambivalent views on race in America. His Deep South childhood, his adolescence in the Midwest, his young manhood in prison, his years as a menial laborer, his struggle as an author in California and New York City, and finally his glory days as an expatriate and celebrity in France and Spain are plumbed deeply for their effects upon his creative urges and his works. In his native country Himes is recalled more as the author of successful detective novels such as Cotton Comes to Harlem than as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In France and Spain, his adopted countries, he is regarded as a literary master. This critical biography is the bittersweet story of a troubled man who found salvation in writing

The art of Richard Wright by Edward Margolies( Book )

17 editions published in 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A native sons reader by Edward Margolies( Book )

7 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 767 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Afro-American fiction, 1853-1976 : a guide to information sources by Edward Margolies( Book )

12 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 741 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Which way did he go? : the private eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Ross Macdonald by Edward Margolies( Book )

14 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 617 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New York and the literary imagination : the city in twentieth century fiction and drama by Edward Margolies( Book )

7 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Part One examines New York from aristocracy (e.g. Henry James and Edith Wharton), immigrants (e.g. Mario Puzo), African Americans (e.g. Ralph Ellison), Jews (e.g. Daniel Fuchs). Part Two studies variations and themes in works of Stephen Crane, Tom Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Theodore Dreiser. Part Three covers New York theatre from Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller"--Provided by publisher

Blood on the forge : a novel by William Attaway( Book )

2 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedneted confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction

Native sons : a critical study of twentieth-century black American authors by Edward Margolies( Book )

11 editions published between 1968 and 1970 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A critical analysis of the works of Richard Wright by Edward Margolies( )

9 editions published between 1964 and 1985 in English and held by 35 WorldCat member libraries worldwide