Overview
Dan McCall is an authority on American Literature and Creative Writing. He came to Cornell in 1966 and taught here for 40 years. He is the author of several novels, including Jack the Bear (1974), which has been translated into a dozen languages, and Triphammer (1991). His critical and scholarly books include The Example of Richard Wright (1969), The Silence of Bartleby (1989), Citizens of Somewhere Else (1999), and The Norton Critical Edition of Melville's Short Novels (2002).
Research Focus
- American Literature, 1800-1950
- Writing of Fiction
Publications
- Editor, Melville’s Short Novels (Norton Critical Edition), 2002.
- Citizens of Somewhere Else (A Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James), 1999.
- Messenger Bird (A Novel), 1993.
- “ Richard Wright’s American Hunger” in Richard Wright, Critical Perspectives, eds., Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, 1993, 359-369. Also Harold Bloom, ed., Richard Wright’s Native Son, 1988, 5-22.
- The Silence of Bartleby, 1989.
- Queen of Hearts (A Novel), 1985.
- Bluebird Canyon (A Novel) Main Selection of the Literary Guild, 1982.
- Beecher (A Novel), 1979.
- Jack The Bear (A Novel), 1974 (translated into French, Danish, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Japanese, Czech, and a Hollywood movie)
- “’The Self-Same Song That Found a Path’: Keats and The Great Gatsby,” AL (January 1971), 521-30.
- “The Meaning in Darkness: A Response to a Psychoanalytical Study of Conrad,” College English (May, 1968), 538-542.
- “The Quicksilver Sparrow of M. B. Tolson,” AQ (Fall, 1966), 538-542.
