Writers in America: The four seasons of success

New York: Stein And Day, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good +/good -. 1983 Quarter cloth 8vo, 224pp. VG+ in good- dust jacket with edgewear including several tape stitches. Inscribed by the author in blue crayon, a note in pencil saying that the recipient was Lucy Saroyan, to whom the book is dedicated. Includes sections on Steinbeck, Saroyan, Fitzgerald, and more. Though unstated, from the library of Matthew Bruccoli.   Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.