Synopsis:
Contains brief entries for over three hundred contemporary authors
From Library Journal:
This work contains roughly 300 profiles of "authors, both living and dead, who were active in the early 1960s or later and remain popular in the mid-1990s." Coverage heavily favors Americans?as typified by Maya Angelou, Tom Clancy, James Dickey, Carl Hiassen, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, and John Updike?but some foreign writers, mostly British and Canadian, are also represented. Each entry offers a thumbnail bio, lists of the author's publications and major critical studies, and a brief signed essay exploring the oeuvre. The volume concludes with three indexes (nationality, genre, and title) and notes on the 65 advisers and contributors, most of whom are academics. The profiles in this work are quite similar in style and format to those found in Gale's well-known "Contemporary Authors" series, and every author covered here also appears in that series. Because of this overlap, libraries that have the latter can safely pass on this work. On the other hand, small public and school libraries that cannot afford the "Contemporary Authors" series will find this a useful acquisition.?Ken Kister, author of "Kister's Best Encyclopedias," Tampa, Fla.
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