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Ex - Library book with some library stamps and markings. Pages are clean, crisp, and binding is tight. Solid Book. Dictionary of Literary Biography - Published by Gale From the publisher: "This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, t... More

Ex - Library book with some library stamps and markings. Pages are clean, crisp, and binding is tight. Solid Book. Dictionary of Literary Biography - Published by Gale From the publisher: "This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history." Each volume is illustrated by relevant drawings, paintings, or photographs of the authors as well as title pages of their works. As of 2006, the series had 375 volumes, which included 23 yearbooks and 45 documentary volumes. Altogether, the series included 13,500 author biographies the Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through specific types of literature and time periods. Included are, biographies of historians, journalists, publishers, book collectors, and screenwriters which focus on an author's writings and the development of career. Each volume is overseen by an expert in the field. The biographies include a bibliography of the author's works, and a "further Reading" list of sources on author and work.

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