The Year in American Literature

Professor Clark of the University of Michigan is one of those rare teachers of English who respond with undiminished appetite to contemporary writing. Here he tells why

1956 was a year of many novels, a handful of short story collections, many sheaves of verse, a half-dozen autobiographies and volumes of letters, about the usual number of literary biographies, quite a few works of literary history, and not very many books of essays or literary criticism.