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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 — The American Renaissance in New England. Volume 1. ISBN 9780810309135
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Novelists since World War II, First Series. Volume 2. ISBN 9780810309142
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Antebellum Writers in New York & the South. Volume 3. ISBN 9780810309159
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Volume 4. ISBN 9780810309166
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Poets since World War II, First Series (Part 1: A-K, Part 2: L-Z). Volume 5. ISBN 9780810309241
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Novelists since World War II, Second Series. Volume 6. ISBN 9780810309081
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century American Dramatists (Part 1: A-J, Part 2: K-Z). Volume 7. ISBN 9780810309289
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z). Volume 8. ISBN 9780810309180
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Novelists, 1910-1945 (Part 1: Adamic-Fisher, Part 2: Fitzgerald-Rolvaag, Part 3: Sandoz-Young). Volume 9. ISBN 9780810309319
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Modern British Dramatists, 1900 to 1945. Volume 10. ISBN 9780810309371
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Humorists, 1800-1950 (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z). Volume 11. ISBN 9780810311473
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Realists & Naturalists. Volume 12. ISBN 9780810311497
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Dramatists Since World War II (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z). Volume 13. ISBN 9780810309364
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Novelists since 1960. Volume 14. ISBN 9780810309272
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Novelists, 1930-1959 (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z). Volume 15. ISBN 9780810309388
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z). Volume 16. ISBN 9780810311480
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Twentieth-Century American Historians. Volume 17. ISBN 9780810311442
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Victorian Novelists after 1885. Volume 18. ISBN 9780810311435
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Poets, 1880-1914. Volume 19. ISBN 9780810317000
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — British Poets, 1914-1945. Volume 20. ISBN 9780810317024
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — Victorian Novelists before 1885. Volume 21. ISBN 9780810317017
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Writers for Children, 1900-1960. Volume 22. ISBN 9780810311466
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Newspaper Journalists, 1873-1900. Volume 23. ISBN 9780810311459
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. Volume 24. ISBN 9780810317031
		Dictionary of Literary Biography — American Newspaper Journalists, 1901-1925. Volume 25. ISBN 9780810317048

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