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Find biographical information on more than 115,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments and informative essays about their lives and work. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).
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The Permanent Series will consist of biographical sketches which formerly appeared in regular volumes of Contemporary Authors ... [because] the subject of the sketch is now deceased [or] has not reported a recently published book in progress.
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