Literary Criticism

Contemporary Authors is the primary directory in the world for author information. Contemporary Authors is the first place researchers look for biographical and bibliographical data on modern fiction and nonfiction writers – including novelists, poets, playwrights, scriptwriters, journalists, biographers, essayists, and media people. Entires typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work. LCCC has vol. 45-208

LCCC has vol 1-117.
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Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. Each entry begins with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.

Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:
- Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865
- Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917
- The Twenties, 1917-1929
- The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941
- The New Consciousness, 1941-1968
- Broadening Views, 1968-1988

This illustrated 8-vol. set provides thorough coverage of major British literary figures of all eras. The convenient chronological arrangement makes it easy to zero in on a particular period in British literary history. Each volume covers 20-30 writers from all genres who were active during a single historical period.

The volumes include:
- Writers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Before 1660
- Writers of the Restoration and 18th Century, 1660-1789
- Writers of the Romantic Period, 1789-1832
- Victorian Writers, 1832-1890
- Late Victorian and Edwardian Writers, 1890-1914
- Modern Writers, 1914-1945
- Writers After World War II, 1945-1960
- Contemporary Writers, 1960-Present

Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation

Biographical or autobiographical entries on 959 authors who came to prominence between 1950 and 1970.