Provides biographies and criticism of American writers. Articles on American Literature 3 vols. Provides access to the bibliographies that appeared in the journals American Literature since 1929 and PMLA since 1922. Magill's Survey of American Literature 6 vols. Major American writers from the seventeenth to the late twentieth centuries.
Forms represented include long and short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction.
Twentieth-Century American Literature 8 vols. Brief biographical sketches and excerpts of criticism of 20th-century American authors and their works. Literary biographies and criticism of British writers from 1400 to the present. Twentieth-Century British Literature 6 vols. Brief biographical sketches and excerpts of criticism of British 20th-century authors and their works.