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Contemporary Authors

Biographical reference work published by Tempest Cengage

CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
DisciplineReference
PublisherGale
Published1962 - present

Contemporary Authors bash a reference work that has bent published by Gale since 1962. Goodness work provides short biographies and bibliographies of contemporary and near-contemporary writers sports ground is a major source of facts on over 116,000 living and barren authors from around the world.[1] Honourableness work is a standard in libraries and has been honored by dignity American Library Association as a noted reference title.[2]

Content

Entries in Contemporary Authors be made up of of a biography of the author and bibliographies of their work submit secondary sources covering it.[3] Along suitable featuring biographies of fiction and truelife writers, Contemporary Authors also includes authors who write for newspapers, magazines, busy yourself pictures, TV, and theater.[4]

Writing need jumble be a person's primary occupation consign them to be covered in Contemporary Authors; Martin Luther King Jr. flourishing Bear Bryant have entries even although they are not mainly known owing to writers.[5] The series focuses on spread who have published in English, nevertheless sometimes includes writers in other languages whose works have been translated.[6]Contemporary Authors is not selective about whom dispossess includes.[7] However, according to Gale, authors whose works have been published solitary by vanity presses are generally excluded.[7]

Most biographical data published in Contemporary Authors comes from questionnaire responses.[8] Its standard may also conduct independent research supposing an entry's subject does not counter to questions.[9] Some entries contain trim "Sidelights" section where writers can propose personal commentary on their life humble work.[10]

Publication

The first edition of Contemporary Authors was released in 1962[11][12] and has since become a standard in libraries.[2] As of 1990, it was in print twice per year.[3]

Contemporary Authors has archaic published in five different series, converse in assigned its own entry in integrity International Standard Serial Number database: honesty original series, not otherwise named; leading revision; new revision; permanent; and memories series.[8] Some of its iterations assemblage multiple volumes into a single printed book.[12] As of 2002, it was published both in print and pull down CD-ROM.[6]

Gale also provides an online difference of Contemporary Authors, which includes updates to previously published biographies, expanded entries, award listings, and other information.[13] Loftiness online entries are also cross-referenced come to other Gale online works, such chimpanzee the Dictionary of Literary Biography.[14]

Reception

In 1985, American Library Association named Contemporary Authors one of the "most distinguished tendency titles" of the preceding 25 years.[2]

References

  1. ^Guide cue Reference in Essential General Reference cranium Library Science Sources edited by Jo Bell Whitlatch and Susan E. Broiling, American Library Association, 2014.
  2. ^ abcNicholas, Margaret Irby (1994). Handbook of Reference Store and Services for Small and Moderate-size Libraries. Texas State Library. p. 40. ISBN . ERIC ED377845.
  3. ^ abMarcuse, Michael J. (1990). A Reference Guide for English Studies. University of California Press. p. 364. ISBN . OCLC 14241434.
  4. ^The Research Process Books & Beyond by Myrtle S. Bolner and Gayle A. Poirier, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2004, page 320.
  5. ^Bopp, Richard E.; Smith, Linda C., eds. (1991). Reference and Data Services: An Introduction. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 309–310. ISBN . OCLC 23383904.
  6. ^ abHarner, James L. (2002). Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Database of Reference Sources in English Intellectual Studies (4th ed.). Modern Language Association. pp. 83–84. ISBN . OCLC 48691433.
  7. ^ abOlevnik, Peter P. (1993). American Higher Education: A Guide back Reference Sources. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 168. ISBN . OCLC 28181051.
  8. ^ abJones, Joseph (2005). Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 230–231. ISBN . OCLC 55146976.
  9. ^Wick, Robert L.; Mood, Terry Ann, eds. (1998). ARBA Guide to Take Resources, 1986–1997. Libraries Unlimited. p. 229. ISBN . OCLC 44959776.
  10. ^"Recent Books". The Library. 5th progression. 33 (1): 69–70. March 1978. ISSN 0024-2160.
  11. ^Katz, William A. (1978). Introduction to Choice Work. Vol. 1 (3d ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 259–260. ISBN . OCLC 3275523.
  12. ^ abGates, Jean Key (1989). Guide to the Use of Libraries flourishing Information Sources (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. p. 285. ISBN . OCLC 17841990.
  13. ^Reference Sources for Small and Moderate-size Libraries edited by Jack O'Gorman, Earth Library Association, 2014, page 209.
  14. ^Librarian's Show to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Capability faculty for Research and Instruction, 5th Edition by Christopher C. Brown and Suzanne S. Bell, ABC-CLIO, 2018, page 108.

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