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Databases for Biographical Information on Authors

Gale Literature Resource Center
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews.
Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window
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This resource provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
Content includes:
More than 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
More than 80,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
More than 250,000 author biographies
More than 450 literary journals
More than 900,000 book reviews
Nearly 100,000 classic and contemporary poems
More than 27,000 classic and contemporary short stories
Nearly 10,000 author interviews
More than 7,400 classic novels
Biography Reference Source
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Comprehensive collection of more than 430,000 full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.
Poetry & Short Story Reference Source
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Poetry & Short Story Reference Center comes with a dedicated search interface that allows users to browse content by categories such as most studied poems, poets, short stories and themes.

MSU John W. & Joan Eadie Celebrity Lecture series
The Celebrity Lecture Series was established at Michigan State University by the College of Arts and Letters under the leadership of Dean John W. Eadie and the Dean’s Community Council in 1988. At its tenth anniversary in 1998 and in honor of his stewardship of the arts and humanities, the series was renamed in honor of Dean Eadie. The popularity of this series attracted students, faculty, and members of the community, and featured some of the most illustrious scholars, critics, novelists, poets, and creative artists of our time.

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Easy to access reference resources from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations and more.