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If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole. - Ishmael Reed Attribution: Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Mumbo Jumbo, ch. 4, Atheneum (1972).

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Ishmael Reed

Titles by Ishmael Reed:

• Mumbo Jumbo
• Reckless Eyeballing
• The Free-lance Pallbearers

Encyclopedia:

• Reed, Ishmael [Scott] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ishmael Reed (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Ishmael Reed (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Ishmael Reed (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ishmael Reed (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• The Essays of Ishmael Reed (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)

Literary Criticism:

• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 174) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Scott) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)