Rollyson, Carl E

Presents volume one of a three-volume set that contains a biographical study from A to Gla of important playwrights that reflects the development of drama from ancient Greece and Rome to the American, European, Asian, and African writers of the twentieth century.

Contains biographical sketches and career analyses of 104 of the best-known and most studied English, Scottish, and Irish writers of long fiction from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Contains entries that provide biographical and career information about seventy-one world authors of long fiction, each with data on dates and places of birth and death, lists of principal works, a critical essay, and a bibliography; arranged alphabetically from A-to-Cap.