Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles 8 to 12 novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers by providing critical excerpts taken from a wide range of critical publications. Each of approximately 200 excerpts is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most include an author portrait. Approx. Volume 108.

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are:

• Stephen Jay Gould
• Sue Grafton
• Charles Johnson
• Modern African Literature