Contemporary Authors

About this book

Your students and users will find biographical information on more than 120,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters in the award-winning Contemporary Authors℗ʼ series. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work. Beginning with Vol. 187, Contemporar Authors℗ʼ expanded its coverage to include more international authors, devoting 20% of each volume to authors from outside the U.S. For your convenience, a softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).