Wagner-Martin, Linda C.

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WAGNER-MARTIN, Linda C.

WAGNER-MARTIN, Linda C. American, b. 1936. Genres: Novels, Poetry, Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues, Autobiography/ Memoirs, Biography. Career: Former teacher, Wayne State University, Detroit, and Bowling Green State University, Ohio; Michigan State University, East Lansing, professor of English, 1968-88; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1988-. Publications: The Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1964; Denise Levertov, 1967; Intaglios, 1967; Phyllis McGinley, 1971; The Prose of William Carlos Williams, 1970; Hemingway and Faulkner: Inventors/Masters, 1975; (with C.D. Mead) Introducing Poems, 1976; Ernest Hemingway: A Reference Guide, 1977; Robert Frost: The Critical Heritage, 1977; Speaking Straight Ahead: Interviews with William Carlos Williams, 1977; William Carlos Williams: A Reference Guide, 1978; Dos Passos: Artist as American, 1979; American Modern (essays), 1980; Songs for Isadora, 1981; Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention, 1982; Sylvia Plath: A Biography, 1987; Sylvia Plath, the Critical Heritage, 1988; The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945; Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition, 1990; Plath's The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties, 1992; Telling Women's Lives, 1994; Favored Strangers, 1996; The Midcentury American Novel, 1997. EDITOR: William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism, 1973; T.S. Eliot, 1974; Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism, 1974; Joyce Carol Oates: Critical Essays, 1979; Sylvia Plath: Critical Essays, 1984; New Essays on The Sun Also Rises, 1987; Ernest Hemingway: Six Decades of Criticism, 1987; Anne Sexton: Critical Essays, 1989; E. Glasgow, Virginia, 1989; Denise Levertov: Critical Essays, 1991; Contemporary section, The D.C. Heath Anthology of American Literature, 1990. Address: Dept of English, University of North Carolina, Greenlaw Hall CB #3520, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520, U.S.A.