Dictionary of literary biography

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of forty-seven American historianswhose first works were published between the end of the Civil War and 1912; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of forty-six American writers of history active between 1607 and 1865; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of thirty-four African-American writers active between the Harlem Renaissance and 1940; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about the careers of sixty-five significant motion-picture writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Profiles approximately sixty American Beat Generation writers from the period following the Second World War, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer' career in detail; also includes a chronology and several essays on the period.

Profiles more than thirty Victorian novelists who wrote significant works after 1885, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.