Magill, Frank Northen

Includes more than 360 interpretative essays on works of twentieth-century fiction published in the United States and Latin America.

Features critical summaries and descriptions of the greatest works of literature by women authors.

Guide to 200 years of African-American literature featuring critical summaries and descriptions of major works, facts, and dates of authorship.

Contains 124 essays about the most influential government and political leaders in the United States history, including all the American presidents through Bill Clinton.

A collection of alphabetically arranged articles that survey the lives and works of 102 authors of short fiction, focusing on writers of the modern short story; each with a list of the author's publications in other genres, and an annotated bibliography.

Presents 2,000-word analyses on 75 literary works dealing with meetings between humans and extraterrestrial intelligent beings.

Contains biographies, critical analyses, summaries of stories, and bibliographies for 46 authors.

A five-volume set of biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of 470 individuals whose contributions influenced world culture and the social development of societies flourishing in earlier centuries.