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Something About the Author, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete, and Literature Criticism Online - Follow this link to find biographical and critical essays on authors and their works. Find information on novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, literary theorists, and other writers.
Biography, criticism, recommended reading, and other information about authors of children's and young adult literature. Covers more than 12,000 individuals, from Caldecott and Newbery award-winners to the latest writers.
Something About the Author, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete, and Literature Criticism Online - Follow this link to find biographical and critical essays on authors and their works. Find information on novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, literary theorists, and other writers.
Provides brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 current authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the U. S. and internationally. Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
If the author you have chosen is dead, try looking for an article in the New York Times written on the occasion of the author's death. These articles are written in a concise manner to highlight the major events of an author's life, both personal and professional.
Search tip: Use the date field to limit your search to the days surrounding the author's death
Includes a digitized image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. Searchers can use basic keyword, advanced, guided, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. Or, they can browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition. Search results lists provide bibliographic information, including date, issue, article headline, page number, and byline (where given). Users may choose to display the full page image of any page in any issue.
Author's "official website" - Many times author's have an "official website." Use google to locate an author's official website by trying any variation of this search strategy: [author's last name] author "official website"
Search in "The CAT" to find books in the Penn State libraries. Use the I WANT IT button to request a copy.
This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.