Arranged by title of work, gives the characters of each book with brief descriptions of each. Includes books of all periods from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century, with an author and a character index. In dictionary arrangement, includes short biographies of American authors, with lists of their major works and information regarding their style and subject matter. Contemporary Authors 1962- Vol. Gives bio-bibliographical sketches of living authors who, for the most part, write in the English language.
Cumulative index contains references to the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
The three titles above are ongoing series of excerpts from critical writings on well-known authors, American and foreign. As volumes are continually being added, for the most current index, use the last volume of any of the three titles, they cross-index each other. Provides individual critical assessments of 272 authors whose major works are in the field of the novel and the novella. Arranged alphabetically by author. Beacham's Popular Fiction in America 4 vols.