Essays in Collections and Chapters of Books: 

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“Assessing the Assessments: An Informal Survey of Five Decades of Comment on the Works of James Purdy.” Assessing James Purdy.  Ed. Joseph Skerritt.  [In    process].

“Avallone, Michael.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Recent American Mystery Novelists. Ed. George Anderson.  Detroit: Gale, 2004.

“Campbell, R. Wright [Robert].” The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Recent American Mystery Novelists.  Ed. George Anderson. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

“Cawein, Madison.”  The Dictionary of Literary Biography:Early American Nature Poets.  Ed. Jason Horn.  Detroit: Gale, 2007.

"Crumley, James." The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Hardboiled American Authors. Ed. George Anderson.  Detroit: Gale, 2000. 92-99.

“Engels, John.”  The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20^th-Century American Nature Poets.  Ed. J. Scott Bryson. Detroit: Gale, 2007.

“Frost, Carol.”  The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20^th-Century American Nature Poets.  Ed. J. Scott Bryson. Detroit: Gale, 2007.

“Hunter, Evan [Ed McBain].” Dictionary of Literary Biography--Mystery Novelists.  Ed. George Anderson. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 183-195.

“Hurting for the Good Life: Blood Sport and Blood Spectacle in the Novels of Harry   Crews.”  American Dreams: Comparative Dialogues in U.S. Studies.  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

“Immigration’s Impact on the Industry.” The Industrial Revolution in America: The Automobile.  Ed. Laurie Hillstrom.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. 150-177.

“Lee, Chang-Rae.” Asian-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.  175-79.

“Lee, SKY [sic].” Asian-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.  197-203.

"Many Kinds of Wars: The Sources, Uses, and Meanings of Violence in the Novels of Robert Stone."  Perspectives on Robert Stone. Charleston, SC: U of South   Carolina P, 2006.