a consolidated index to more than 170,000 biographical sketches concerning modern day authors as they appear in a selection of the principal biographical dictionaries devoted to authors, poets, journalists, and other literary figures
McNeil, Barbara
1984
On t.p.: A consolidated index to more than 170,000 biographical sketches concerning modern day authors as they appear in a selection of the principal biographical dictionaries devoted to authors, poets, journalists, and other literary figures.
Locates more than 75,000 poems. Indexes 11,000 authors writing from all parts of the world, and from remotest antiquity to the present. They write on more than 4,000 subjects, ranging from Aardvarks to Zulus.
Indexes every song written from the 16th century through 1987 by title, subject, key word, key lyric line, and category and includes pertinent song information.