All three works include in every volume, indexes to the whole set by author, topic and nationality. They are enormously helpful. To date covers more than 2000 authors now living or who died after 1959. 81 nationalities are represented and countless works. The following volumes of the the Dictionary of Literary Biography contain biographical and critical essays by the major scholar for the author being critiqued.
Scholarly bibliography accompanies every essay.
They too are enormously helpful. Biography , works and bibliography for 58 women from 710 to 2000. Modern Japanese Novelists, a biographical dictionary . Nine women and forty seven male novelists. Biography, translations, criticism.