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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 — British Prose Writers 1660-1800, First Series. Volume 101
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Short Story Writers, 1910-1945, Second Series. Volume 102
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Literary Biographers, First Series. Volume 103
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Prose Writers 1660-1800, Second Series. Volume 104
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Poets Since World War II, Second Series. Volume 105
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880. Volume 106
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1832, First Series. Volume 107
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Spanish Poets, First Series. Volume 108
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Eighteenth-Century British Poets, Second Series. Volume 109
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Romantic Prose Writers 1789-1832, Second Series. Volume 110
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Literary Biographers, Second Series. Volume 111
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Literary Publishing Houses, 1881-1965. Volume 112
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers, First Series. Volume 113
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Italian Poets, First Series. Volume 114
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Medieval Philosophers. Volume 115
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832. Volume 116
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Caribbean & Black African Writers, First Series. Volume 117
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1889-1918. Volume 118
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Nineteenth Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism 1800-1860. Volume 119
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Poets since World War II, Third Series. Volume 120
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series. Volume 121
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Chicano Writers, Second Series. Volume 122
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Ninteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Naturalism and Beyond 1860-1900. Volume 123
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992. Volume 124
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Second Series. Volume 125

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