Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of thirty-nine twentieth-century Latin American writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.
Contains twenty-three alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about American novelists who have made significant contributions to the body of post-World War II literature; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Profiles more than thirty Caribbean and Black African writers of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information aboutthirty-six significant American short-story writers active before 1880; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Presents alphabetized biographical and critical profiles of over sixty African-American dramatists from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright.
Contains articles that provide information about major authors and aspects of twentieth-century world literature, arranged alphabetically from S-to-Z. Includes nationality and general indexes.