This annual compendium includes original material covering a given year’s literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and…

This series offers a comprehensive introduction to specific genres and time periods in international literature, providing biographical and critical information on authors from around the world. This text examines American…

This series is dedicated to making literature and its creators accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Each volume provides information in…

This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

Each volume in this Documentary Series concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement, or genre. Individual author entries chronicle each writer’s career through a selection of…

Like other volumes in the series, this work discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work. This volume features German Renaissance writers.

Each volume in this series concentrates on a specific literary movement or genre. Entries chronicle writers’ careers and list their works. This volume covers the Black Aesthetic movement.

This volume covers post-1914 British children’s writers. Like other volumes in the series, it discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work, from…