Overview
Supplement to Charles Scribner's Sons' Latin American Writers, a collection of biographical and critical essays by scholars from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, covering chroniclers, novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights from the sixteenth century to the present. This supplement contains 36 essays, including eight important revisions and 28 new essays on writers who have come to the fore since the publication of the the base set in 1989,including such figures as Isabel Allende, Guillermo Cabrero Infante, and Ernesto Cardenal.