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American Writers.
Editor-in-chief, Leonard Unger. New York: Scribner, c1974-.
CALL NUMBER: [Ref] PS 129 .A55
British Writers.
Editor-in-chief, Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner, c1979-1984.
CALL NUMBER: [Ref] PR 85 .B688
Cox, Michael, editor.
A Dictionary of
Writers and Their Works. [ Online ] Oxford University Press, 2001. Available:
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t59&subject=s13
(Accessed 2 April 2003)
Dictionary of Literary
Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-.
CALL NUMBER: [Ref] PS 221
.D510
The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature.
Jay Parini, Editor-in-chief. Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 2004.
CALL NUMBER: [Ref] PS21 .E537 2004
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