Literature

    
Biography Resource Center
This database contains hundreds of biographical narratives and full-text articles taken from 
Gale reference sources and various periodicals. This is the premier biographical site if you 
want to find information on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American 
history and culture. Whom would you like to know more about? You'll be able to search 
profiles on more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to 
the infamous to the obscure.
      
Contemporary Literary Criticism 
(Put in barcode and PIN and click on "Dewitt Infotrac and Gale Databases" on the lefthand 
side of the screen to access this database) Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an 
extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry 
contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. 

NoveList  
A readers' advisory database that contains subject heading access, full-text reviews, 
annotations, and read-alikes to over 135,000 fiction titles.

      
Twayne's Authors Series 
View full text discussions of an author's works and a chronology of the author's life 
when you browse hundreds of important names in literature from its beginnings to its 
contemporary incarnations. And not only does Twayne's Authors Series database allow you to search 
specific topics, it also helps you brainstorm a topic if you're not sure what to write about.

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