11.   And no less than three American writers are working on popular books about the concept of zero.

12.   Andre Dubus, whose gritty short stories of Merrimack Valley life made him a much-admired figure among American writers, died Wednesday night in Haverhill, Mass.

13.   As a playwright, he also feels a strong connection to American writers.

14.   As the title of this book suggests, the American writer Bill Bryson has not written your usual sort of travelogue.

15.   At first, American writers came to Paris as much to escape Prohibition, censorship and discrimination in the United States as to enjoy a bohemian life style.

16.   ----- There may be a precedent for the elevation of a dead American writer who was obscure at his or her death, but no one can name one.

17.   A book review of a biography of author John Steinbeck mistated the number of American writers who have won the Nobel prize.

18.   After the war she married Mitchell Goodman, an American writer, and for several years they lived in France near Creeley, who was a friend of Goodman.

19.   Both sides are now trying to backtrack from the idea that the new sponsors are pushing for the inclusion of American writers.

20.   But they belong here, taking their place in a legacy of American writers pressing into new territory.