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

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