New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. SIGNED on the title page (not easily recognizable as such, clearly indecipherable handwriting is a legacy of his medical training.) Canin was selected as one of the 20 best young American authors by Granta Magazine. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498546.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Canin was selected as one of the 20 best young American authors by Granta Magazine. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498546.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Canin was selected as one of the 20 best young American authors by Granta Magazine. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498546.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Canin was selected as one of the 20 best young American authors by Granta Magazine. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498546.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. INSCRIBED on the title page - For .... Good luck with the writing" and dated in the year of publication. Canin was selected as one of the 20 best young American authors by Granta Magazine. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498546.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.

New York: SOHO Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Haitian-born author's second book and first collection of short stories - a National Book Award finalist, by one of the Granta 20 authors. A powerful collection of 9 stories about life under Haiti's dictatorships, and about those who fled from Haiti. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 1569470251.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.

New York: Vintage Books, (2005) dj. A novel which explores the life of a man who buried his past - as a torturer (a dew breaker) for the repressive regime in Haiti -beneath his new life in Brooklyn, NY. 242 pp.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's first book (much of which had appeared in the New Yorker). On the basis of this novel, he was chosen as one of the first group of "Granta 20" authors (their 1996 list of the best young novelists writing in the United States). Cover praise from Jayne Anne Phillips and Annie Dillard who calls this 'Brilliant, wonderfully funny.It's hard to think of any novel -- let alone a first novel -- in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humor, and Tom Drury is its master.' List of characters. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-395-621518.

New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. SIGNED on title page. Dust jacket praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?). ISBN: 0-393-040135.

New York: Norton, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's very funny first novel (second book) - a 'wild and wacky ride through the Louisiana backwaters.' Granta 20 author. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-393036480.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book - a poignant, offbeat and powerful collection of thirteen short stories by this Granta 20 author, half set in the North (he was born in Massachusetts), half in the South (where he was living at the time this was published). Small first printing. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029247.

New York: Norton, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. Dust jacket praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?) SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-393-040135.

New York: Plume (Penguin), (1998.). SIGNED - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. Praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?) 315 pp. ISBN: 0-393-040135.

New York: Norton, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. SIGNED on title page. Dust jacket praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?). ISBN: 0-393-040135.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book - a poignant, offbeat and powerful collection of short stories by this Granta 20 author. Small first printing. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029247.

Boston: Little Brown, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this Granta award winning author, a collection of short stories - several of which were already selected as 'best' - Lee Smith described these stories as 'each is like a little novel: fully imagined, fully realized.' SIGNED on the title page. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-316-199621.

New York: Picador, (2002.). Author's second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Eugenides was chosen by Granta Magazine as one of the top 20 young writers in the United States. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-312-422156.

New York: Picador, (2002.). Author's second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Eugenides was chosen by Granta Magazine as one of the top 20 young writers in the United States. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-312-427735.

Minneapolis: Milkweed , 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a 'wickedly funny novel ..about our media saturated times." Haynes was the only writer who was published by a "small press" to be selected as one of the Granta 20 young best novelists in America. ISBN: 1-57131-0096.

Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, and a Minnesota Voices Project winner - an "irreverent, witty and compassionate book .. that sings of the joys and frustrations of the middle class African American life." Although he had written several novels, all were published in small printings ( although the first edition of this title is shown as 6000 copies, reportedly it is even less), and Haynes was relatively unknown until he was selected as one of the Granta 20 authors.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by a young novelist who was included by Granta magazine on its list of the 20 best young writers in the US. ISBN: 0-15-1157936.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by a young novelist who was included by Granta magazine on its list of the 20 best young writers in the US. ISBN: 0-15-1157936.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. SIGNED first edition - First book by a young novelist who was included by Granta magazine on its list of the 20 best young writers in the US. SIGNED on the title page. 382 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First edition - First book by a young novelist who was included by Granta magazine on its list of the 20 best young writers in the US. 382 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth book, 2nd collection of short stories. Moore was selected as one of the 20 best young American writers by Granta magazine. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58101-6.