This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre 01
This is volume 214 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, a worthwhile and staggeringly large project if I've ever heard of one. I've used both this volume and the one on 20th Century Norwegian writers, both of which have been very comprehensive and helpful. Great resource.