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Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 120,000 authors in the US and around the world.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contains articles on literary authors from every era and genre. Coverage is analytic as well as biographical
Contemporary Literary Criticism Online
Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
Gale Biography in Context (formerly Biography Resource Center)
Online biographical reference database in the fields of literature, science, business, entertainment, politics, sports, history, current events and the arts.Biographical information on over one million people throughout history, around the world.

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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers) from every age and literary discipline.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Bio-Bibliographic Resources in Print

Beach, Cecilia, comp. French Women Playwrights Before The Twentieth Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. (O'Neill Library PQ509 .B43 1994)

Beach, Cecilia, comp. French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. (O'Neill Library PQ509 .B44 1994)

Dejeux, Jean. Dictionnaire des Auteurs Maghrebins de Langue Française. Paris: Karthala, 1984. (O'Neill Library PQ3988.5.N6 D43 1984)

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Bio-Bibliographic Resources in Print