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20th-Century American Bestsellers
A LibGuide to ENSP 3559: 20th-Century American Bestsellers
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Publishing History
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Reception History
Reference Works
Browning, David Clayton, and John William Cousin. Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, English & American. Rev. ed. (with suppl.), Dent, 1969.
Dictionary of American Biography: Complete Through Supplement Eight. Scribner, 1990.
Gale Literary Criticism
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
HW Wilson Company. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. New York [etc.] H. W. Wilson Co, 1900.
Searchable on HathiTrust through the 1940s: see http://bit.ly/2qcsPiZ
Literature Resource Center
Includes the full text of articles from the Dictionary of Literary Biography and other biographical and critical compilations about authors, along with journal articles and book chapters about literary works and topics.
McNeil, Barbara, and Miranda C Herbert. Author Biographies Master Index. 2nd ed. Gale Research Co, 1984.
Biography
Donaldson, Scott. The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Hamilton, Nigel. Biography : A Brief History, Harvard University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=3300445.
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