Print Materials

• American Writers. Reference Collection PS129 .A58 1998 v.1-3
• British Writers. Reference Collection PR19 .B68 1997 v.1-3
• Contemporary Popular Writers. Reference Collection PR478 .P66C66 1996
• European Writers. Reference Collection PN501 .E9 1992 v.1-3
• Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945. General Collection PS153.N5R65 1989
• Literature and its writers: an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama. Reference Collection PN6014 .C43 1997
• Magill’s Masterpieces of world literature. Reference Collection PN44 .M3448 1989
• Norton anthology of world masterpieces. General Collection PN6014 .N66 2002 3 vols.
• World literature and its times. Reference Collection 3 vols.: Latin American PQ7081 .M625 1999 v.1; African American PL8010 .M65 2000 v.2; British and Irish PR25 .M67 2001 v.3
• World literature criticism : 1500 to the present : a selection of major authors from Gale's literary criticism series. Reference Collection PN523 .W67 1992 v.1-6
• World literature criticism. Supplement : a selection of major authors from Gale's literary criticism series. Reference Collection PN523 .W67 1992 v.1-2
• World Masterpieces. General Collection PN6014 .M1382 1965 v.1-2
• World Poets. Reference Collection PN1021 .W67 2000 v.1-3
• Individual biographies: Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller (General Collection section P)

Ebooks available on specific writers
(or groups of writers) --searchable in IvyCat; some examples:

Maya Angelou Kate Chopin Stephen Crane William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Lafcadio Hearn Helen Jackson Sarah Orne Jewett Samuel Johnson William Somerset Maugham Edgar Allan Poe Katherine Anne Porter William Butler Yeats American newspaper columnists Biographical companion to literature in English British playwrights Irish writers ...

Electronic databases in Virtual Library:

• Biography Resource Center
• LitFinder