What is the DLB?
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a specialist encyclopedia dedicated to literature.
Each biographical entry includes basic information on the author and works, a bibliography, and a list of further readings of essential secondary sources.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Online)
The Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyProvides access to biographical essays focusing on all genres and time periods of American and British literature and selected other literatures. Essays discuss the lives and careers of authors and summarize critical responses to their work.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (In Print)
- Brazilian Writers
- Castilian writers, 1200-1400
- Castilian Writers, 1400-1500
- Chicano Writers, First Series
- Chicano Writers. Second series
- Chicano Writers. Third series
- Sixteenth-century Spanish writers
- Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. First Series
- Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Second Series
- Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series
- Twentieth-Century Spanish Poets. First series
- Twentieth-century Spanish poets. Second series
- Twentieth-century Spanish fiction writers
- Latin American dramatists. First series
- Modern Latin-American fiction writers. Second series
- Modern Latin-American fiction writers. First series
- Modern Spanish American poets. First series
- Modern Spanish American poets. Second series
- Portuguese Writers
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