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Index
A
Acrocorinth
Adams, John
Address Unknown
Adult Education
Agents
Albee, Edward
Albom, Mitch
Allen
Allison, Dorothy
All Said and Done
Amadeus
American Blood
Amis, Kingsley
Amnesia Moon
Andrews, Donna
Angela’s Ashes
Anna Karenina
Annie Hall
Aphrodite
Armies of the Night
Asimov, Isaac
Atwood, Margaret
autobiographical fiction
Available Light
A Big Storm Knocked It Over
A Christmas Carol
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
A Farewell to Arms
A Werewolf Problem In Central Russia
B
Baker, Russell
Ballard, J.G.
Barker, Nicola
Barrett, Elizabeth
barriers to creativity
Barry, Dave
Bastard Out of Carolina
Batman
Bean Trees
Beatty, Ann
Beet Queen
Bee Season
Beginnings
Behindlings
Bellow, Saul
Berberova, Nina
Betrayed By Rita Hayworth
Betts, Doris
Bluebeard
Body of Glass
Bogart, Humphrey
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The
Book of Ruth, The
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Brecht, Bertold
Brideshead Revisited
Bridget Jones
Brontë, Charlotte
Buffalo Gals And Other Animal Presences
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
Bukowski, Charles
Burke, James Lee
Burning Angel
Burning Marguerite
Burns, Robert
C
“c.o.g.”
Candide
Canterbury Tales
Carter, Angela
Casella, Cesare
Catcher in The Rye
Catch
Chabon, Michael
character’s yearning
Characterization
characterization
character dossier
character driven fiction
Chaucer
Cheever, John
Chekhov, Anton
chemistry in characterization
Cheong, Fiona
Chopra, Deepak
Christie, Agatha
City of Darkness, City of Light
Clockers
Cold Mountain
Columbo
Colwyn, Laurie
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle, Arthur. See also Doyle, Arthur Conan
Conflicts
conflicts
Conrad, Joseph
Corrections, The
Count Zero
Courage of Turtles, The
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Crane, Stephan
Crazy Salad
Cream Sauce
Crocodile Soup
Cross, Amanda
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Lion
cummings, e.e.
D
Daddy and the Hammerhead Shark
Darling, Julia
Daspin, Eileen
Dead, The
Dead Man Walking
Dead Souls
Delaney, Samuel R.
Description
description
Devil and Daniel Silverman, The
De Beauvoir, Simone
de Gramont, Nina
dialog
Diary of Anne Frank, The
Diary of a Tuscan Chef
Dick, Philip
Dinesen, Isak
Doctorow, E.L.
Dogs of Babel
Donne
Dos Passos, John
Doyle, Arther Conan. See also Conan Doyle, Arthur
Dreaming In Cuban
Dunmore, Helen
Dyer, Wayne
E
Eco, Umberto
Eggers, Dave
Eisenberg, Nora
Electronic publishing
Eliot, T. S.
Empire of the Sun
ending
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
epiphany
Evans
Evans, Richard Paul
Eve
Eve, Nomi
Exercise
F
fairy tales
fame
Family Orchard, The
Famished Road, The
fantasy
Far Euphrates
Faust
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear of Flying
Fifth Book of Peace, The
Fisher, M.F.K.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flanagan, Mary
Ford, John
formality versus informality in speech
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fowles, John
Franzen, Jonathan
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The
Friedman, Bruce Jay
From Time To Time
G
Garcia, Cristina
German Money, The
Gibson, William
Going
Public
Goldberg, Myla
Goldman
Gone To Soldiers
Gone With The Wind
Gordon, Mary
Gould, Stephen Jay
Great Gatsby, The
Greeley, Andrew
Grossman, David
H
Halloween
Hamilton, Jane
Hammett, Dashiell
Handmaid’s Tale, The
Hand In My Bra
Hannah and Her Sisters
Harder They Come, The
Harrison Bergeron
He, She & It
Heartburn
Heart of Darkness
Heilbrun, Carolyn
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry James
Her: A Novel
Herlihy, James Leo
Hijuelos, Oscar
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction
historical fiction
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hoagland, Edward
Hoffman, Abbie
Holman, Sheri
Holmes, Sherlock
Houston
Hubbard, L. Ron
Huckleberry Finn
humor
Hundred Per Cent Black Steinway Grand, The
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hynes, James
I
Ibsen
idiomatic speech
Iliad
Infernal Desire Machine of Dr. Hoffman, The
Infinite Jest
inner censor
Inness-Brown, Elizabeth
International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
Interpreter Of Maladies
Interviewing
Irving, John
Italics Are Mine, The
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... And Then Again When I Am Looking
J
Jackson, Shirley
Jaffee, Annette Williams
James, Henry
James, P. D.
Jane Eyre
jargon
Jewish Defense League
Jew in the Lotus, The
JFK
Jong, Erica
journal
journaling
Joyce, James
Junebug
K
Kabbalah
Kafka, Franz
Kamenetz, Roger
Keneally, Thomas
Kennedy, Jackie
Kingsolver
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirkpatrick, David D.
Kitchen Man, The
Kopit, Arthur
Kumin, Maxine
Kundera, Milan