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Literary Index UW Restricted
An index to several literary reference titles, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors. How to Use the Gale Literary Series & Literary Index
Literature Resource Center UW Restricted
Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, playwrights, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes full-text articles from literary journals, critical essays, plot summaries, author portraits and an encyclopedia of literary terms.
Literature Online (LION) UW Restricted
Reference, biographical, criticism and texts of nearly 14,000 writers.
African Writers Series UW Restricted
Texts and biographies of over 200 contemporary African writers.
Books in Print UW Restricted
The standard source of bibliographic information for new books in the United States. An author search of BIP will yield a list of titles currently "in print" by that author. The online version of Bowkers Books in Print also includes access to Bowkers Author Biography Database. Entries in the database are very brief, but the list of authors included is very current.

Encyclopedias, Companions, Bio-Critical Works

African American Authors: 1745-1945 (PS153 N5 A32 2000 UWB/CCC Reference)
African American Dramatists (PS338 N4 A69 2004 UWB/CCC Reference)
African Writers* (PL8010 .A453 1997)
American Authors: 1600-1900 (PS21 K8 UWB/CCC Reference)
Asian-American Novelists (PS153 .A84 A825 2000 UWB/CCC Reference)
Asian-American Playwrights (PS338 A74 A9 2002 UWB/CCC Reference)
Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States (PQ7420.2 K3 1989 UWB/CCC Reference)
Black Literature Criticism* (PS153 .N5 B556 1992)
British Authors: before 1800 (PR103 K9 UWB/CCC Reference)
British Authors: after 1900 (PR105 K9 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary African American Novelists (PS374 N4 C658 1999 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers (PS374 W6 C66 2002 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary American Women Poets (PS151 C665 2002 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary Authors* (Z1224 .C622)
Contemporary Dramatists (PR106 C66 1999 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary Literary Criticism* (PN771 .C59)
Contemporary Novelists (PR881 C69 1996 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary Poets (PR603 C6 1996 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary Women Poets (PS151 C67 1998 UWB/CCC Reference)
Contemporary World Writers* (PN51 .C6235 1993)
Dictionary of Literary Biography* (PN41 .D484 1978)
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers (PR111 .E54 1988 UWB/CCC Reference)
Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers (PN481 .E5 1991 UWB/CCC Reference)
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature (PQ7081.A1 E56 1997 UWB/CCC Reference)
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20^th Century (PN771 .E5 1999 UWB/CCC Reference)
European Writers* (PN501 .E9 1983)
Feminist Companion to Literature in English (PR111 F45 1990b UWB/CCC Reference)
The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1950 (PS153 N5 R65 1989 UWB/CCC Reference)
Hispanic Literature Criticism* (PQ6039 .H57 1994)
Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature (PBN491.3 M55 2006 UWB/CCC Reference)
Latin American Dramatists since 1945 (PQ7082 D7 H37 2003 UWB/CCC Reference)
Latino and Latina Writers (PS153 H56 L39 2004 UWB/CCC Reference)
Modern British Women Writers (PR116 M63 2002 UWB/CCC Reference)
Native American Literatures (PS153.I52 .W47 1999 UWB/CCC Reference)
Native North American Literature* (PS508.I5 .N38 1994)
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (PS217 W64 N56 1997 UWB/CCC Reference)
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism* (PN761 .N56)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (PR19 .D73 1985 UWB/CCC Reference)
The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States (PS147 .O94 1995 UWB/CCC Reference)
Poetry Criticism* (PN1010 .P62)
Short Story Criticism* (PN3373 .S387)
Short Story Writers (PN3373 S398 1997 UWB/CCC Reference)
Twentieth-Century Authors (PN771 K86 UWB/CCC Reference)
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (PN771 .G27 UWB/CCC Reference)
UXL Graphic Novelists (NC1305 P46 2007 UWB/CCC Reference and online UW Restricted)
Women Writers in the United States (PS147 D38 1996 UWB/CCC Reference)
World Authors: 1950-1970 (PN451 W3 UWB/CCC Reference)
World Authors: 1970-1975 (PN451 W32 UWB/CCC Reference)
World Authors: 1975-1980 (PN451 W672 1985 UWB/CCC Reference)

*Indicates titles indexed by Gale’s Literary Index

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