Rev. by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. An alphabetically arranged listing by name of American authors and titles. Publication dates are given for all works listed. An excellent source for information on both major authors and new and relatively unknown authors. Also included are bibliographies, work in progress, career, and personal facts.
Arrangement is alphabetical, with a cumulative index.
These volumes represent an updating of the original series. This series is complimented by a New Revision series which began in 1981. Dictionary of Literary Biography . Gale, 1978- . An on-going set of volumes, published by Gale Research Company and designed to provide biographic, bibliographic, and critical material on major writers of America and Great Britain as well as some writers of Canada, France, and Germany.