Biographies
In Literature Resources from Gale students and
researchers will discover biographical coverage of authors and their works from all genres and all time periods from around the world.
Users will find biographical information on:
- More than 130,000 author biographies from award winning titles like
Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary
Literary Criticism - providing biographical and bibliographic coverage
of authors across time - from past to present
- 20,000 international author biographies
- More than 7,000 author interviews
- More than 3,000 author images
- More than 3,000 new biographies added each year from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Literary Criticism
Users will find 20,000 biographies of authors from across the globe. The table below provides a glimpse of Literature Resource Center's truly international coverage.
Britain
| Egypt
| France
| Germany
| Ireland
| Israel
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Angela Carter
| Naguib Mahfouz
| Marguerite Duras
| Gunther Grass
| James Joyce
| Aharon Appelfeld
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Ted Hughes
| Youssef Chahine
| Michel Houellebecq
| Herman Hesse
| Edna O'Brien
| Amos Oz
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Harold Pinter
| Nadav Safran
| Francoise Sagan
| W.G. Sebald
| Colm Toibin
| A.B. Yehoshua
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Italy
| Spain
| Sweden
| Lebanon
| S.Africa
| Turkey
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Italo Calvino
| Miguel de Cervantes
| Selma Lagerlof
| Hanan al-Shaykh
| J.M Coetzee
| Elif Shafak
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Umberto Eco
| Angela Figuera | Henning Mankell
| Kahlil Gibran
| Athol Fugard
| Nazim Hikmet |
Oriana Fallaci
| Frederico Garcia Lorca | August Strindberg
| Aamin Maalouf
| Nadine Gordimer | Orhan Pamuk |
In the
Literature Resources from Gale environment users can cross-search thousands of Gale's biographies with full-text literary works, criticism and reviews to deepen their understanding of the work.
