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Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

Notes:   The Literature Resource Center is a literature reference database. It features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Literature Resource Center contains Contemporary Authors Online; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Availability:    Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Subjects:    Arts & Humanities; Biography; History & Social Sciences; Homework Help; Libraries and Book Trade; Literature and Language; Publishing and the Book Trade

Resource Types:    Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Full-text databases

Dates of Coverage:  n/a

Update Frequency:  n/a

Print Equivalent:  The New York Public Library owns many of the works included in Literature Resource Center. Check CATNYP for holdings. Particularly consider these important components: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Output Type:  Print,Email

Provider:   Gale Group

Format:  Web