Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®

The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 300,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who™. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 275 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Documents the lives and careers of authors.

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors

Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students, the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most used literary databases in a single Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Scribner Writers Series

The Scribner Writers series, "long the gold standard for literary criticism" according to the American Library Association's Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 38, No. 1), includes some 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from thirteen acclaimed print sets. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study. Since the publication of the first volumes of AMERICAN WRITERS in 1974, the series has been a standard resource in academic, public, and senior high school libraries for use by students, teachers, scholars, librarians, and the general public.

The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors

The Twayne Authors Series is the premier literary reference resource series comprising: Twayne's U.S. Authors Twayne's English Authors Twayne's World Authors Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum. The Twayne Authors Series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, or the development of literary genres. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of authors' works, these studies take account of major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism, and provide new critical insights and original points of view. Each treatment of an author averages from 175 to 200 pages in length.