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Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series

  • Published by Gale

Each volume concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre. Entries are generously illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors' lives. (Note: this series has been discontinued, however new Documentary volumes will be published periodically in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series.)

"Recommended."
-- Library Journal (11/15/98) (on Vol. 17: The House of Scribner, 1931-1984)

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  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis. Volume 1
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — James Gould Cozzens, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright. Volume 2
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut. Volume 3
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Tennessee Williams. Volume 4
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — American Transcendentalists. Volume 5
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Modern American Poets. Volume 7
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — The Black Aesthetic Movement. Volume 8
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — American Writers of the Vietnam War. Volume 9
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — The Bloomsbury Group. Volume 10
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — American Proletarian Culture: The Twenties and Thirties. Volume 11
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Southern Women Writers. Volume 12
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — The House of Scribner, 1846-1904. Volume 13
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — Four Women Writers for Children, 1868-1918. Volume 14
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — American Expatriate Writers: Paris in the Twenties. Volume 15
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — The House of Scribner, 1905-1930. Volume 16
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — The House of Scribner, 1931-1984. Volume 17
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — British Poets of The Great War. Volume 18
  Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series — James Dickey. Volume 19
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