This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

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.

For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.

This text systematically presents career biographies of American Western writers.

Like other volumes in the series, this work discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work, from initial publication to 1997. This volume features Italian novelists since World War II.

Biographical profiles of eighty important American novelists since 1945 feature personal portraits, critical discussions, and biographies of their works.

This illustrated compendium of the current literary scene makes available previously unpublished material covering the past year's literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children's books as well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature. Volumes include lists of awards and honors; a necrology; a checklist of contributions to literary history and biography; and a cumulative index.

This text systematically presents career biographies of British fantasy and science fiction writers from 1918-1960.

This annual compendium includes original material covering a given year's literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children's books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature. Volumes include lists of award and honors winners; a necrology; a cumulative index; and more.

An illustrated compendium of the current literary scene, covering the last 1995/1996 literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes.

Volume 195 of a complete resource for both biographical and analytical coverage on nearly 7,000 literary figures, presented in a familiar format to librarians and other researchers. The series arranges authors in volumes by genre and time period. For fast reference, an author name index is included (cumulative in every volume). Approx.

Like other volumes in the series, this work discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work. This volume features German Renaissance writers.

This text systematically presents career biographies of Medieval Japanese writers.

Each volume in this Documentary Series concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement, or genre. Individual author entries chronicle each writer's career through a selection of literary documents, including letters, notebook and diary entries, interviews and contemporary book reviews.

Part of a series providing detailed information on the eras of pre-twentieth century America, this volume includes articles covering headlines and headline makers, awards, achievements and other enlightening and entertaining facts the colonial era in the USA

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

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.

For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

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.

For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.

Just after World War II, the United States assumed a new identity, and the writing from the late 1940s and early 1950s reflected this insecurity and moral uncertainty. Next came the writers of the Beat Generation, who had a need to discover or create their own moral truths. The social and political turbulence of the 1960s propelled many writers to search for narrative structures that would liberate them from the restraints of the modern-day world. The writers of the 1970s were surrounded by political cover-ups and intrigues, which aliented them from the national mainstream. Over the years, a new view emerged: literature became a form of cultural study, resulting in a new interest in writers from traditionally marginalized social groups. 23 entries include: Vance Bourjaily, Harry Crews, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and more.