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To locate books at PJC and other Florida Community College libraries, click on Find Books at the top of the LRC homepage, or click Go at Search PJC Catalog. Click on Browse Lists and enter the person’s last name then first name; for example, walker alice. In the results list look for subheadings such as Biography, Interviews, Diaries, etc. Also check the titles listed under the person’s name only (with no subheadings).
African-American Writers
Encompasses the lives and works of 34 African-American authors. Each entry includes a personal and professional description, short criticisms of major works, and a “Selected Bibliography” of primary and secondary sources. Also included is a chronology and general subject index.
REF PS 153 .N5 A344
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies
Set includes four original volumes and four supplementary volumes. Comprehensive subject/ author indexes in volume four of the original set, and in 1998 Retrospective Supplement.
REF PS 129 .A55
Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome
Two-volume set consists of 47 essays about important authors of ancient Greece and Rome. Entries are in chronological, not alphabetical, order. Chronological table in volume one; general subject index in volume two.
REF PA 3002 .A5
British Writers
British counterpart of Scribner’s American Writers series. Each article provides biographical information, literary criticism, and a selected bibliography. Chronological table for each volume appears in the front of the volume.
REF PR 85 .B6888
Contemporary Authors
REF Z 1224 .C59 1962-present
and
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
These two sources provide short biographical descriptions of modern authors. Profiles include awards and honors received and a list of published works. Shelved at the end of both series is a paperback Cumulative Index.
REF Z 1224 .C58 E156
Contemporary Dramatists
Contains over 300 entries on contemporary living dramatists writing in English. Supplements in back of volume provide information about screenwriters, radio writers, television writers, musical librettists, and theatre groups. Comprehensive title index allows supplements.
REF PR 737 .C57
Contemporary Novelists
Contains articles on novelists that include a biographical sketch and list of authored publications. Indexes by last name, nationality, title of work.
REF PR 881 .C69
Contemporary Poets
Essays include biographical and critical information on 779 prominent English-language poets arranged alphabetically by last name. Other indexes in the back of the volume are by nationality and title of published works.
REF PR 603 .C6
Dictionary of Literary Biography
A series of separately edited volumes, each a collection of biographical and critical essays on literary figures. The last volume contains a cumulative index.
REF PS 221 .D5.
Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors
Covers over 400 20th-century authors of importance in Hispanic literature and culture. Nationality Index at back of volume.
REF PQ 7081.3 .H58
Latin American Writers
A major source which profiles, in chronological order, 176 outstanding authors from Latin America. Covers authors from the 15th through the 20th centuries. Name/ subject index, nationality index, and detailed chronological table included.
REF PQ 7081 .A1 L37 3 vols.
Modern American Women Writers
Profiles women writers who have published major works in the United States from the 1870’s to the present. Chronology at beginning of volume; Name/ subject index at the back.
REF PS 151 .M54
Mystery and Suspense Writers: the Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage
Contains 68 personal entries on writers and 14 sketches of subgenres pertaining to mystery and suspense writers. Appendices and Subject index at back of second volume.
REF PR 830 .D4 M97 2 vols.
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Presents important science fiction writers in groups classified by general time period and common themes. Subject/ name index at back of volume.
REF PS 374 .S35 S36
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