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Gale Literary Databases

Contemporary Authors Online
Biographies on more than 130,000 authors since 1900

Dictionary of Literary Biography Online
More than 12,000 biocritical and topic essays by noted scholars

"…hands-down the best overall literary reference work ever published, a proverbial diamond as big as the Ritz..."
— Library Journal (June 15, 2006)

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Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Online
Over 850 biographies and more than 14,500 critical articles on authors from 1960 to the present day

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  • Biographical and critical coverage of over 130,000 authors, from all disciplines, genres, and time periods, from around the world
  • Over 60,000 selected literary criticism articles from Gale's acclaimed Literature Criticism series
  • Over 650,000 full-text articles from more than 300 literary journals
  • Full text of Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
  • 7,000 synopses of the most-studied titles
  • Nearly 5,000 author-related Web sites
  • Literary research guide
  • Adds 3,000 to 4,000 new authors each year
  • Added Functionality

Available for joint subscribers

If you subscribe to both Literature Resource Center and any of the databases below, links to these additional databases are integrated within your search:

Macmillan Library Reference
     Twayne's Authors Series US/World/English
     Scribner Writers Series

MLA International Bibliography
(Must subscribe to MLA via Gale)

Note:  You must subscribe to both Literature Resource Center and these titles separately.