In this companion volume to his Minor British Novelists, a previous book in this series, Charles Alva Hoyt has brought together eight original, unpublished essays on eight American novelists: Charles Brockden Brown, John William De Forest, Charles Chesnutt, James Branch Cabell, John Dickson Carr, Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, and Edward Lewis Wallant. The contributors are Kenneth Bernard, E. R. Hagemann, Robert Farnsworth, Frederick B. Millett, Roger Herzel, Bruce Olsen, Paul Levine, and Charles Hoyt.