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Author Surveys:

Profiles of Authors' Lives and Careers

The following reference sets provide excellent biographical overviews of authors from around the world.  You might want to print this sheet out and bring it with you to the library.  For each set, the call number is provided, so that you can easily find the source in the reference section:

New and Notable:

    Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature (REF  PN41 .G36)

         (places authors and their works in historical/cultural context)

African Writers (REF PL8010 .A453)
Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome (REF PA3002 .A5)
British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 (REF PR888 .W6 B75)
Caribbean Women Writers (REF PR9205 .O5 C37)
Concise Major 21st-Century Writers (REF)
Contemporary Novelists (REF PR881 .C69)
Contemporary World Writers (REF PN451 .C6235)
Critical Survey of Long Fiction (REF PN3451 .C75)
Critical Survey of Poetry (REF PR502 .C85)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction (REF PN3321 .C7)
Cyclopedia of World Authors (REF PN41 .M26)
European Authors, 1000-1900 (REF PN451 .K8)
Guide to French Literature (REF PQ41 .L48)
Latin American Writers (REF PQ7081 .A1 L37)
Latino and Latina Writers (REF PS153 .H56 L39)
Literature of Latin America (REF PQ7081 .O33)
Magill’s Survey of World Literature (REF PN523 .M29)
Major 20th-Century Writers (REF PN 771 .M27)
Modern Japanese Writers (REF PL723 .M563)
Multicultural Writers Since 1945 (REF PN452 .W88)
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (REF PR19 .O95)
Reference Guide to World Literature (REF PN524 .R44)
Scribner Writers Series (TCTC Online Database)
Supernatural Literature of the World (REF PN56 .S8 S86)
Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English (REF PS225 .T88)
Twentieth Century Authors (REF PN771 .K86)
World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present (REF PN523 .W67)
World Writers in English (REF PR9080.5 .W67)