MADDEN, David

MADDEN, David. American, b. 1933. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Literary criticism and history, Novellas/Short stories, History, Autobiography/Memoirs, Bibliography, Essays. Career: Donald and Velira Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing. Founder, LSU Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Founding Director, The United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Assistant Ed., The Kenyon Review, 1964-66. President, Popular Culture Association, 1975-77; Associate Ed., Fiction Intnl, 1973-83. Publications: The Beautiful Greed, 1961; Wright Morris, 1964; The Poetic Image in Six Genres, 1969; Cassandra Singing (play), 1957; The Shadow Knows, 1970; James M. Cain, 1970; Brothers in Confidence, 1972; Bijou, 1974; The Suicide's Wife, 1978; Pleasure-Dome, 1979; A Primer of the Novel, 1980; On the Big Wind, 1980; The New Orleans of Possibilities (short stories), 1982; Writers' Revisions, 1981; Cain's Craft, 1985; Revising Fiction, 1988; Eight Classic American Novels, 1989; The World of Fiction, 1989; A Pocketful of Prose: Contemporary Short Fiction, 1991; A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction, 1992; A Pocketful of Plays: Vintage Drama, 1996; Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War, 1996. EDITOR: Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties, 1968; Proletarian Writers of the Thirties, 1968; American Dreams, American Nightmares, 1970; Rediscoveries, 1971; (co) The Popular Culture Explosion, 2 vols., 1972; Nathaniel West, 1973; Remembering James Agee, 1974; Creative Choices, 1975; (co) Studies in the Short Story, 1985; (with P. Bach) Rediscoveries II, 1988; (with P. Bach) Classics of Civil War Fiction, 1991; The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, 2000. Address: 614 Park Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, U.S.A. Online address: dmadden@lsu.edu