Gale Literary Sources offers an integrated approach to the full texts of literary works, journal articles, reviews, reviews, biographies, and author reviews of these resources:

• Literature Criticism
• Literature Resource Center
• Contemporary Authors
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• LitFinder
• Scribner Writers Series
• Something About the Author Online
• Twayne's Authors Series

The database Literature Resource Center provides biographical, bibliographic and contextual information to more than 150,000 authors. It includes:

• more than 1.1 million full-text articles and reviews from nearly 500 periodicals and magazines
• 80,000 full text critics
• 7,000 production reports
• more than 13,000 links to key websites
• more than 140,000 biographies supplemented by 3,000 portraits
• 10,000 passwords taken from Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature

Scribner Writers Series - contains more than 3,000 original detailed essays on the world’s 1,400 top authors.

Twayne’s Authors Series - includes critical contributions to the life and work of major writers, history and development of literary movements and genres from nearly 900 monographs.

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