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Reference Books on American Authors

REF 809 GRE
Great women writers : the lives and works of 135 of the world's
most important women writers, from antiquity to the present.
1st ed. New York : Holt, 1994.

REF 809 LIT
Literature and its times: profiles of 300 notable literary works
and the historical events that influenced them/edited by
Joyce Moss and George Wilson. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1997.

Ref 809 MAS
Masterplots. 1st-[4th] ser. New York : Salem Press, 1954-68.

REF 809 MAS
Masterpieces of women's literature. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c1996.

Ref 809 MAS
Magill, Frank N. (Editor). Masterplots II : American Fiction
Series. Salem Press Inc., 0486.

REF 809.1 MAS
Masterplots II. Pasadena Calif. : Salem Press, 1992.

REF 809.3 BEA
Beacham's encyclopedia of popular fiction. Osprey, FL : Beacham
Pub., c1996.

REF 809.3 CLA
Classics of science fiction and fantasy literature. Pasadena,
Calif. : Salem Press, c2002.

REF 809.3 MAG
Survey of science fiction literature : five hundred 2,000-word
essay reviews of world-famous science fiction novels with
2,500 bibliographical references. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Salem Press, c1979.

REF 809.3 MAS
Masterplots II. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1986.

REF 809.8 MOD
Modern Black writers. New York : Ungar, c1978.

REF 810 AME
American women writers : From Colonial Times to the present.
Vol. 5. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1995.

Ref 810 DIC
Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit : Gale Research Co.,
1978-.

REF 810 ENC
Encyclopedia of American literature. New York : Facts on File,
c2002.

REF 810.3 CAM
The Cambridge handbook of American literature. Cambridge
[Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

REF 810.8 OXF
The Oxford companion to Aftican American literature/editors,
William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris;
foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.

REF 810.9 AFR
African American writers. New York : Toronto : New York : C.
Scribner's Sons ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1991.

REF 810.9 AME
American women writers : a critical reference guide from colonial
times to the present. New York : Ungar, c1979-1994.

Ref 810.9 AME
American writers; : a collection of literary biographies. New
York, : Scribner, 1974-c1981.

REF 810.9 AME
American history through literature, 1870-1920. Detroit :
Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale, 2006.

Ref.810.9 BEN
Benét's reader's encyclopedia of American literature. 1st ed.
New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1991.

REF 810.9 CAL
Callow, James T. Guide to American literature from Emily
Dickinson to the present. New York : Barnes & Noble Books,
1977.

REF 810.9 CAL
Callow, James T. Guide to American literature from its
beginnings through Walt Whitman. New York : Barnes & Noble
Books, 1976.

REF 810.9 CUR
Curley, Dorothy Nyren. Modern American literature. 4th enl. ed.
New York, : F. Ungar Pub. Co., [1969-76].

REF 810.9 HAR
Hart, James David, 1911-. The Oxford companion to American
literature. 5th ed. New York : Oxford University Press,
1983.

REF 810.9 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-. American authors, 1600-1900; : a
biographical dictionary of American literature,. New York,
: The H. W. Wilson company, 1938.

Ref 810.9 MAG
Magill's survey of American literature. New York : Marshall
Cavendish Corp., c1991-c1994.

Ref 810.9 MAS
Masterpieces of African-American literature. 1st ed. New York,
NY : HarperCollins, c1992.

REF 810.9 MOD
Modern American literature. 5th ed. Detroit : St. James Press,
c1999.

REF 810.9 OXF
The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United
States/editors in chief, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda
Wagner-Martin; editors, Elizabeth Ammons...(et al.). New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

REF 813 BEA
Beacham's popular fiction in America. Washington, D.C. : Beacham
Pub./Research Pub., c1986.

REF 813 GRE
The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy :
themes, works, and wonders. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, 2005.

Ref 920 BLO
The Bloomsbury guide to women's literature. New York : Prentice
Hall General Reference, c1992.

REF 920 CHI
Children's books and their creators. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
c1995.

Ref 920 VER
Verde, Thomas A. (Thomas Aquinas), 1958-. Twentieth-century
writers, 1900-1950. New York : Facts on File, c1993.

REF 920.003 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-. Twentieth century authors : a
biographical dictionary of modern literature. 7th printing,
1973 [with updated necrology]. New York : H. W. Wilson Co.,
1973, c1942.

REF 920.03 ASH
Ash, Brian. Who's who in science fiction. New York : Taplinger
Pub. Co., 1976.

REF 920.03 AUT
Authors & artists for young adults. Detroit, Mich. : Gale
Research, 1989.

REF 920.03 MAJ
Major 20th-century writers : a selection of sketches from
Contemporary authors. Detroit : Gale Research, c1991.