Presents brief biographies of twenty major figures in modern literature.
Contents
Joseph Conrad -- W.B. Yeats -- Virginia Woolf -- James Joyce -- T.S. Eliot -- Raymond Chandler -- Agatha Christie -- Jean Rhys -- Ernest Hemingway -- C.S. Lewis -- George Orwell -- Patrick White -- Arthur Miller -- Roald Dahl -- James Baldwin -- Ted Hughes -- Athol Fugard -- Sylvia Plath -- Alice Walker.
