The supplements cover writers not included in the original series. Each author is treated in a separate signed essay about his life and work. Multi volume set. 1988 Offers bio-bibliographical essays on a wide range of American women writers of all periods. A biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary 2 vols.
All persons included are deceased.
1991 Lucian Boia, editor Devoted to historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arranged by countries or geographical areas and then alphabetized. Obituaries in The New York Times provide much information about a writer's life and works. You must, obviously, know the date of the writer's death to find the obituary. The UMR Library has copies on microfilm of every edition of The New York Times newspaper dating back to the beginning of the paper in 1851.