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Dictionary of Literary Biography

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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.

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		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers. Volume 201. ISBN 9780787630720
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Nineteenth Century American Fiction Writers. Volume 202. ISBN 9780787630966
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Medieval Japanese Writers. Volume 203. ISBN 9780787630973
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Travel Writers, 1940-1997. Volume 204. ISBN 9780787630980
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin & Gogol: Poetry and Drama. Volume 205. ISBN 9780787630997
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, First Series. Volume 206. ISBN 9780787631000
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Novelists Since 1960, Third Series. Volume 207. ISBN 9780787631017
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Literature of the French & Occitan Middle Ages: 11th to the 15th Centuries. Volume 208. ISBN 9780787631024
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Chicano Writers, Third Series. Volume 209. ISBN 9780787631031
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Ernest Hemingway: A Documentary Volume. Volume 210. ISBN 9780787631048
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Ancient Roman Writers. Volume 211. ISBN 9780787631055
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, Second Series. Volume 212. ISBN 9780787631062
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Pre-Nineteenth Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers. Volume 213. ISBN 9780787631079
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Danish Writers. Volume 214. ISBN 9780787631086
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers, First Series. Volume 215. ISBN 9780787631093
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Poets of the Great War: Brooke, Rosenberg, Thomas, A Documentary Volume. Volume 216. ISBN 9780787631253
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Nineteenth-Century French Poets. Volume 217. ISBN 9780787631260
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Short Story Writers Since World War II: Second Series. Volume 218. ISBN 9780787631277
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Documentary Volume. Volume 219. ISBN 9780787631284
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth Century Eastern European Writers, 2nd Series. Volume 220. ISBN 9780787631291
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920. Volume 221. ISBN 9780787631307
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — H.L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume. Volume 222. ISBN 9780787631314
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Renaissance in New England, Second Series. Volume 223. ISBN 9780787631321
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Walt Whitman: A Documentary Volume. Volume 224. ISBN 9780787631338
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — South African Writers. Volume 225. ISBN 9780787631345

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