Gale Literature

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Gale Literature brings together several of Gale’s literary databases into one seamlessly cross-searchable resource on authors and their works, literary movements or genres, journal articles, literary criticism, as well as reviews of bestsellers. Currently users can cross-search these collections with Gale Literature:

• Literature Criticism Online, one of the largest, most extensive compilations of literary commentary available.
• Literature Resources Center, offering up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
• Contemporary Authors, find the biographies and bibliographies of thousands of U.S. and international authors. Continuously updated.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, explore the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
• LitFinder, containing a wealth of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
• Scribner Writers Series, providing original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods.
• Something about the Author, examine the lives and works of children and young adult authors and illustrators.
• Twayne's Authors Series, devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived.