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Print Reference Works

American Ethnic Writers by David R. Peck (Editor); Tracy Irons-Georges (Editorial Coordinator)
Call Number: Reference (PS153.M56 A414 2000 )
ISBN: 0893561576
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
American Nature Writers by John E. Elder (Editor)
Call Number: Reference (PS163.A6 1996 )
ISBN: 0684196921
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Encyclopedia of the Novel by Paul Schellinger (Editor)
Call Number: Reference (PN41.E53 1998 )
ISBN: 1579580157
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English by Virginia Blain; Patricia Clements; Isobel Grundy
Call Number: Reference (PR111.B57 1990 )
ISBN: 0300048548
Publication Date: 1990-10-24
Latin American Writers by Carlos A. Solé (Editor); Maria I. Abreu (Editor)
Call Number: Reference (PQ7081.A1L37 1989
ISBN: 068418463X
Publication Date: 1905-06-01
Native American Literatures by Kathy J. Whitson
Call Number: Reference (PS153.I52 W47 1999 )
ISBN: 0874369320
Publication Date: 1999-03-24
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of and about Women of Color by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
Call Number: Reference (PS153.N5 W756 2006 )
ISBN: 0313331960
Publication Date: 2006-04-01

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Biographical and critical essays that are written by experts in the field. Information includes many genres and time periods of American and British literature and selected other literatures. Essays discuss the lives and careers of authors and summarize critical responses to their work.