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Cyclopedia of World Authors Revised Edition
Contributor(s): The Editors of Salem Press (Editor), Magill, Frank Northen (Editor)
ISBN: 158765122X     ISBN-13: 9781587651229
Publisher: Salem Press
OUR PRICE:   $399.96  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2003
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Annotation: Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2,408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wrote key works.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Reference
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2003017382
Physical Information: 10.25" H x 8.5" W x 10.5" (21.54 lbs) 5 pages
 
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This reference provides concise introductions to the lives and works of approximately 2400 authors from around the world, from essayists to novelists to writers in all other genres. Many newly prominent authors covered include Michael Ondaatje, E. Annie Proulx, and J.K. Rowling.