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Review Quotes: "The richness and diversity of the South's contribution to twentieth century American literature is systematically documented in this major new reference work. This one-volume compilation provides not only substantial biographical sketches of each of its subjects--thirty-five male and fifteen female; forty-four white and six black--and bibliographic listings of works both by and about each; it also contains original and substantive critical essays assessing their literary output and impact written by many of the most distinguished current scholars of southern literature. The select fifty include poets, playwrights, and essayists as well as novelists and short-story writers. All of the major figures of the Southern Renascence, of course, find their places here. But what is now being documented by entries on such current practicioners as Walker Percy, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler (the volume's youngest subject), William Styron, and James Dickey. . . . This is one of those rare works whose value as a scholarly reference source is matched by the pleasures and interest it holds for the general reader."-Georgia Historical Quarterly