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Contemporary Authors
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Description
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Brief biographical and bibliographical information on more than 130,000 authors from the United States and the rest of the
world. While coverage is international, emphasis is given to the English-speaking world, with more than half the authors
from the United States. Includes novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, academic writers, journalists, and
scriptwriters; and each entry typically provides information on career history, writings, and works in progress, as well as
personal information such as date of birth, marital status and address. Most also include URLs for web sites about the
authors and those sites maintained by authors themselves. Many entries include critical commentary, often extensive in the
case of prominent authors.
The database can be searched by author of course, but also by title, subject, year of birth or death, place of birth or
death, ethnicity, and nationality. Advanced searching allows combining multiple fields.
Each page of search results includes a link to search Google for images in order to retrieve portraits and other pictures
related to the search (though it might be best to refine searches by putting the author's name in quotation marks).
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Dates covered
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Primarily 1900+.
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Updating frequency
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Monthly (for the database as a whole; individual entries are updated much less frequently, with some articles significantly out of date).
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Sources
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Contemporary Authors (For holdings see IRIS.)
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Type of coverage
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Brief biographical data, primary and secondary bibliographies, and-in some cases-concise commentary on author's works.
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Print Counterpart or related resources
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Contemporary Authors
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Provider
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Producer or content provider: Thomson Gale
Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Thomson Gale/InfoTrac
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