​Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested in reading. Cady traces with insight and passion the threads of sin and original good in American literature, examines the thorny question of race, and explores the fantastic in modern fiction. He looks anew at familiar writers like Hemingway and Steinbeck, and repeatedly focuses on storytellers who have fallen out of favor today. Decidedly non-canonical and definitely not Politically Correct, this long overdue reprint of The American Writer celebrates the nation's whole literary history from its roots to its crowning achievements up to the year 2000. It sees the New World through experienced eyes. Passionate, honest, and powerfully inspiring, it will be read and treasured for years to come.