• By Jacquelyn White
  • Posted Sunday, February 26, 2017

Database of the Week: Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete

The award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides comprehensive access to the series dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers while simultaneously satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers, and scholars. The series provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

In one remarkable collection, you get:

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (more than 345 volumes)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (more than 50 volumes)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.)

… a total of more than 420 volumes and 164,000 pages, easily searched and retrieved. Supporting AP/IB curricula in literature as well as university-level coursework, Dictionary of Literary Biography is an invaluable source for tracing the development of an author’s canon and the evolution of his/her reputation.

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