Contemporary Literary Criticism

Each volume in this series profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after the 31st of December 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. Approximately 90 to 95 per cent of the critical essays are full text. Each volume includes cumulative author name, topic and nationality indexes as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).