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Dictionary of Literary
Biography Complete Online brings you complete online
access to all volumes of Gale's award-wining reference set,
Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as
Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Featuring
comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized
literary scholars and critics, you'll find profiles of more than
143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists,
screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies
discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled,
along with the critical response to their works.
This collection is comprised of:
•Dictionary of Literary Biography (vols. 1-347) through
2009
•Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary
Series (50 vols.)
•Dictionary of Literary Biography
Yearbook (23 vols.)
The Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series
concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and
related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley
proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors'
lives. The Documentary series allows for further study of major
literary figures through critical and biographical source
materials.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography
Yearbook Series is annual compendium which includes
original material covering a given year's literary highlights,
including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed
essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama
and children's books we well as scholarly articles, interviews,
biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations,
works, writers and the business of literature.
How to Search DLB
Basic Search allows you to search on
specific word or words occurring within key fields of
data, including author and title, or within the full
text of documents, or by author name. You may also
choose to limit your search to entries published in a
particular year or range of years and/or to entries
published within a particular Dictionary of Literary
Biography series.
Advanced Search allows you to conduct a
search using a variety of criteria; this enables you to
retrieve very specific results. You can search on
specific word or words occurring within key fields of
data, and within the full text of documents, as well as
other searchable fields of information.
The Browse Authors feature allows you
to browse an alphabetical list of authors covered within
the database. Selecting an author launches a search that
returns a list of results containing all of the entries
within the Dictionary of Literary Biography series
published on the author selected.
The Browse Volumes feature allows you
to browse an alphabetical list of volumes and parts of
volumes within the database. Selecting a volume or part
title retrieves the Inside this Volume page for that
volume or part. You can sort this list in descending
publication date. You can also filter the list by
Dictionary of Literary Biography series (Main,
Documentary, and Yearbook) or by subject.
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