Overview
Find biographical information on more than 159,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.
Features & Benefits
- Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, adaptations, biographical and critical sources, and informative essays about authors' lives and works.
- The series also includes a select number of autobiographical essays, about 10,000 words in length, written by the authors themselves and accompanied by a selection of unique family photos.
- The Gale Literary Index, which can be accessed online at http://www.cengage.com/, contains references to all entries in the series as well as in other Gale literature reference works.
What's New
All entries in this volume are new (see Table of Contents for listing.)