Dictionary of Literary Biography

Description: 

Featuring comprehensive literary biographies, you'll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights.

Focusing on a particular literary period, movement or genre, each volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors' lives.

Coverage: 
1978-present
Access: 

Access is restricted to ASU students, faculty, and staff; off-campus access is available.

Eresource type: 
Biographical
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Subjects: 
English–Also Useful
Literature–Also Useful
Vendor: 
Gale Cengage