English and American Literature 

Literature Resource Center

Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, and full-text literary criticism on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Includes full-text, searchable versions of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors.

Biography Resource Center

Includes:

• Contemporary Authors. Vols. 1-270.1962-2008
• Contemporary Novelists. 7th ed., 2001. Detroit: St. James Press.
• Contemporary Poets. 7th ed., 2001. Detroit: St. James Press.
• Contemporary Popular Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999.
• Contemporary Southern Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
• Contemporary Women Poets. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999.
• St. James Guide to Children's Writers. 5th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999
• St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.
• St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.
• St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998.
• St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.
• St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999.
• Writers Directory. 24th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2008.

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