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

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