DLB Documentary Series
In 1982 the DLB began to supplement its main series by publishing a Documentary Series containing letters, interviews, notes, diary entries, and book reviews of major writers (primarily American) from a particular period. Currently there are 20 volumes in the Documentary Series:
1 Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis (1982) 2 James Gould Cozzens, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright (1982) 3 Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut (1983) 4 Tennessee Williams (1984) 5 American Transcendentalists (1988) 6 Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald (1989) 7 Modern American Poets: James Dickey, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore (1989) 8 The Black Aesthetic Movement (1991) 9 American Writers of the Vietnam War: W. D. Ehrhart, Larry Heinemann, Tim O'Brien, Walter McDonald, John M. Del Vecchio (1991) 10 The Bloomsbury Group (1992) 11 American Proletarian Culture: The Twenties and the Thirties (1993) 12 Southern Women Writers: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty (1994) 13 The House of Scribner, 1846-1904 (1996) 14 Four Women Writers for Children, 1868-1918 (1996) 15 American Expatriate Writers: Paris in the Twenties (1997) 16 The House of Scribner, 1905-1930 (1997) 17 The House of Scribner, 1931-1984 (1998) 18 British Poets of the Great War (1999) 19 James Dickey (1999) 20 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (2000)
DLB Yearbook
Inaugurated in 1980, the Yearbook series augments the DLB by reflecting the vitality of contemporary literature and summarizing current literary developments. The Yearbook is divided into two sections:
- Articles about the past year's literary events or topics
Literary events may include such things as a transciption of the World War II Writers Symposium at the University of South Carolina; an evaluation of the Jack Kerouac revival; an article on the Chadwyck-Healy Database Project. In 1987 the Yearbook began a survey of the practice of book reviewing in America.- Tributes and obituaries
This section includes the speech of the Nobel Prize winner in literature and lists the winners of other literary prizes and awards. A necrology is included, as well as a checklist of literary histories and biographies published during the year.
