Biographies of California authors and indexes of California literature.
By: Edgar J. Hinkel, M.A., editor [and] William E. McCann, M.A., assistant editor. Published by the Alameda county library, Oakland, California, as a report of Official project no. 65-1-08-2356 conducted under the auspices of the Work projects administration.
Contributors: McCann, William E.; Alameda County Free Library.; Work Projects Administration.
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Oakland, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Dictionaries.; American literature -- California -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.; California -- In literature -- Bibliography.
Genres: Dictionaries.
Notes: Reproduced from type-written copy.
"These two volumes ... bring to a close a reference work in eight volumes on California literature ... A 'Bibliography of California literature; fiction, poetry, drama' ... was brought out in 1938, and 'Criticism of California literature, a digest and bibliography' ... released in 1940."--Foreword, v. 1.
The title index of v. 2 was compiled from the "Bibliography of California literature" and from v. 3 of "Criticism and California literature." cf. v. 2, 3d prelim. leaf.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. A biographical dictionary and comparative study of biographical sources.; title: v. 2. Title index and chronological index.