| Resource Name & Link to Resource: | Contemporary Authors |
| Description: | Provides biographical information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and essays about their lives and work. The Revised Series contains updated and revised entries on current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). See also Dictionary of Literary Biography. Please note: To limit your search to the contents of this title, under Limit the results enter the title Contemporary Authors in the by publication title: field. Searches without one of these limits include all resources in the GVRL. |
| Resource Type(s): | E-Book(s), Key Database(s), Reference Tool |
| Mobile Access |  This resource is mobile-enabled
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| Access information: | Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions. |
| Fulltext: | Fulltext is available. |
| Vendor Name: | Gale Cengage Learning |
| Research Guides: | Biographical Information, English Literature & Language, Reference Sources |
| Coverage: | 2003 - present |
| Update Frequency: | 10 times a year |
| Special usage notes: | Beginning in 2006, new Contemporary Authors volumes are available electronically only (and include volumes back through 2003). For pre-2003 volumes, search Gale's Literary Index, then consult the appropriate paper volumes in the Young Reference Services' Collection (PS129 .C5320), 2nd floor, west wing, William T. Young Library. Gale's Literary Index will also guide you to other Gale literary reference sources. |
