Overview
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.
Features & Benefits
- Student friendly: Homework help format, with criticism at high school students' interest and reading levels.
- Reader friendly: For patrons interested in more information on the classics or bestsellers they're reading.
- Curriculum Connection: Supports standards on study of literature by genre or in historical context and provides read-a-likes for common core activities.
- Assignment based: For Students designed to match real English projects and the format facilitates compare and contrast, inquiry based activities.
- Title lists correlate well with textbooks, anthologies.
What's New
The internal design of the pages-starting with SSFS 48-has been refreshed and modernized (ex. new art on drop pages and sidebars, some format changes), but still keeps the look and feel of the For Students series.
