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Below is a sampling biographical sources and databases
for Literature.
This research guide provides a sampling of biography resources for literary persons, living or dead, male or
female. This group of sources may also include dramatists, playwrights,
poets, screenwriters, literary characters, publishers, etc.
For biographies of individual authors please conduct a Library catalogue subject search using the author's name.
You can also conduct a subject search for example:
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Contemporary Authors DBW
reference Z 1224.C621 v.1-128.
This series provides biographical information on approximately 112,000
modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists
and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information,
addresses, career history, writings, work in progress,
biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or essays about
their lives and work. A cumulative index is published twice per year,
or use the onlineGale Literary Index
Contemporary Poets DBW reference PR603.C6 1996
Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1995-1999: Books of Recognized Merit DBW Reference PS374.C454H45 2002
Dictionary of Literary Biography DBW
reference PS 129.D47.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career
biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres
through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time
periods. Writers are placed in the larger perspective of literary
history. Use the online Gale Literary Index to determine which volume.
Directory of Canadian Plays and Playwrights 2003-2005 DBW Reference PR9189.D57 2003
Encyclopedia of British Writers DBW Reference PR421.E63 2005 v.1-2
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
DBW Reference PN471.W455 2004 This reference work includes substantial
alphabetically arranged entries on nearly 70 women writers whose works
are widely read in English. While most of these women are from England
and America, the volume also profiles Chilean, Brazilian,Indian, South
African, Australian, French, and German authors. The writers selected
are feminist in that their works have challenged traditional gender
roles, explored female oppression, or critiqued patriarchal social
structures. Each author entry includes biographical information, an
extensivesummary treatment of at least one of her works, a list of her
other major works, cross-references to related entries, and a list of
works for further reading.
Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide
DBW Reference PN452.M88 2004. The political circumstances following
World War II exposed many people to other cultures. This reference work
discusses the experiences of writers active since 1945 who were shaped
by cultures other than their own. Included are alphabetically arranged
entries for more than 100 writers, including Chinua Achebe, W. H.
Auden, Mircea Eliade, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Elie Wiesel.
The profiled authors either lived in another culture voluntarily or
were wrenched from one culture into another. Each entry includes a
brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes in the writer's
works, a review of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographies
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Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters,
Authors and Themes DBW Reference PM152.W54 1999
Short Story Writers DBW Reference PN3373.S398 1997 v.1-3
St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers DBW reference PR888.D4T8 1996
Twentieth-Century Children's Writers DBW reference PN 1009.A1T9 1995.
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Databases:
American National Biography
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Gale Group Literary Index
Literature Online (Lion)
MLA International Bibliography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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