41.   The book was a wide-ranging review of the history of American literature beginning with William Dean Howells, through Faulkner.

42.   The error produced an incorrect reference to Dr. Philip Gura, professor of American literature and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

43.   The evening features contemporary American literature, and the audience has many young writers just starting their careers.

44.   The myth of reinvention figures prominently in American literature, as when James Gatz decided to become Jay Gatsby.

45.   The progress of American literature has been ever fitful, allowing both giddy peaks and sluggish valleys.

46.   The publishing house looked for American literature to translate into Chinese.

47.   The story of Smith and Pocahontas has become a romantic legend in American literature.

48.   Their ilk was known in American literature even before John Cheever met a typewriter.

49.   Theodore Dreiser was and is the great grizzly bear of American literature -- wild and coarse and powerful, definitely commanding respect, if grudgingly.

50.   These are the editors who shape, tighten and polish American literature and the copy editors who detect grammatical gaffes and rescue writers from creative spelling.