Literary Criticism & Author Biography Subject Guide
- Article Databases
- Literary
Criticism - Author Biography
Contact YOUR Librarian:
Gergana Kostova
email: g.kostova@umbc.edu
phone: 410-455-3592
Search catalogusmai, the Library's Online Catalog
Examples:
- Jane Austen biography (in keyword field)
Retrieves biographies and autobiographies of the author
Biographical Reference Sources
Find citations and, often, the full-text of articles in literature.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Coverage: Full set
Indexes current and retrospective reference works containing multiple biographies. 10 million+ entries.- Literature Resource Center
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.
- LION (Literature Online Complete)
Coverage: varies
Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Location: REF PS221.D5
Provides extensive biographical information on writers worldwide. The last volume of the set provides a cumulative index to the whole set
