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Contemporary Authors: a Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television Gale

Your students and users will find biographical information on more than 120,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters in the award-winning Contemporary Authors(r) series. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work. Beginning with Vol. 187, Contemporar Authors(r) expanded its coverage to include more international authors, devoting 20% of each volume to authors from outside the U. S. For your convenience, a softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription)