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Walter Blair

Born: 1900

Died: 1992

American folkloristWalter Blair (April 21, 1900 – June 29, 1992)[1] was a professor in the University of Chicago English department who was known for his study of American folklore, humor and tall tales. -Wikipedia

Born: 1900

Died: 1992

Books by Walter Blair (50 max)

The literature of the United States: an anthology and a history ...

1946

The United States in literature

1952

James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg

Mark Twain & Huck Finn.

1960

Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck & Tom.

1969

Mark Twain, Walter Blair

Better reading

1945

American literature: a brief history

1964

Walter Blair, BLAIR, HORNBERGER, STEWART

Tall tale America: a legendary history of our humorous heroes

1944

literature of the United States

1957

Native American Humor

1960

Selected shorter writings of Mark Twain

1962

Mark Twain, Walter Blair

Approaches to poetry

1935

Horse sense in American humor, from Benjamin Franklin to Ogden Nash.

1942

Native American humor.

1960

Mark Twain & Huck Finn

1960

Better reading prose, explanatory and persuasive

1945

The college anthology

1949

Two phases of American humor.

1931

Tall Tale America

1944

Tall tale America a legendary history of our humorous heroes

1944

Approaches to poetry

1953

Half horse, half alligator the growth of the Mike Fink legend

1956

Half horse, half alligator: the growth of the Mike Fink legend

1956

America's humor from Poor Richard to Doonesbury

1978

The Mirth of a nation: America's great dialect humor

1983

Walter Blair, Raven Ioor McDavid

Mark Twains West

1983

The background of Bill Nye in American humor.

1931

Two phases of American humor

1931

Mike Fink: king of Mississippi keelboatmen

1933

Mike Fink king of Mississippi keelboatmen

1933

Native American humor (1800-1900)

1937

OUTLINE HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE

1937

Native American humor (1800-1900)

1937

Mark Twain, New York correspondent

1939

On the structure of Tom Sawyer

1939

Manual of Reading

1943

Tall Tale America A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes

1944

Tall Tale America A Legendary History of Our Hmorous Heroes

1944

The Literature of the United States, An anthology and a history, Volume II, From the Civil War to the Present

1947

Better reading 1, factual prose

1949

Better reading 1, factual prose,

1949

The literature of the United States an anthology and a history

1949

The United States in Literature

1952

The literature of the United States, an anthology and a history [edited by] Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger [and] Randall Stewart.

1953

Approaches to poetry

1953

Literature - Better Reading Two

1954

Walter Blair, John C. Gerber

Reading literature exercises to accompany Better reading 2: Literature

1955

The college anthology

1955

Factual Prose : Better Reading 1: Third Edition

1955

Walter Blair, John Gerber

Factual prose

1955

Davy Crockett, Frontier Hero The Truth as He Told It -- The Legend as Friends Built It

1955