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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Literature)

DLB
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

To link to this database use: https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/dlb

Complete text of Gale's DLB series.  The DLB covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, and includes entries on authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. Although international in scope, it tends to concentrate on American and British literature.

Additional Information:

Each entry begins with the list of an author's works, followed by fairly detailed biographical information concentrating on the author's career. Some entries are about 2,000 to 5,000 words; some can run more than 10 pages (up to 15,000 words). They all include illustrations, photographs of the authors, their families and places where they lived, manuscripts in facsimile, or dust jackets. The entry ends with listings of letters, bibliographies, biographies and references.

Coverage: Varies - Updates vary

Vendor: Gale Cengage

Producer: Gale Cengage

Interlibrary Loan Type: Print-only Copy Permitted

Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users

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