11.   A year ago, Nishiyama turned to Takayoshi Ogawa, a scholarly expert in American literature, to transform the novel into Japanese.

12.   After graduating from the University of North Carolina, he taught early American literature at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

13.   After all, the author was James T. Farrell, not an insignificant figure in the pageant of American literature.

14.   Cobb was a teacher of American literature and creative writing whose classes were always in demand.

15.   Cobb taught American literature and creative writing, almost exclusively to seniors.

16.   Contrary to popular opinion, book publishers are in business to make profits, not enhance modern American literature.

17.   Even in the study of American literature, it took decades for us to have figures like Whitman and Melville considered as serious writers.

18.   For decades, romance novels have been the laughingstock of what passes for American literature.

19.   For her contributions to American literature Miss Sarton was awarded honorary degrees from the University of New Hampshire, Clark University and Colby, Bates and Russell Sage Colleges.

20.   For more than three decades Heimert taught a popular survey course in which thousands of Harvard undergraduates were introduced to American literature.