BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Answer the following questions about your author:
1. nationality of the author - American, British, European etc.
2. gender of the author
3. when the author lived or lives
4. what type of literature the person wrote -- drama, short stories, fiction, poetry

American Literature
African American Writers   PS 153 N5 A344 1991
American Nature Writers   PS 163 A6 1996
American Writers    PS 129 A55
American Writers Before 1800  PS 163 A6 1996 
Dictionary of Native American Lit.  PM 155 D53 1994 
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance   PS 153 N5 A24 2003
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature PS 153 M56 G74 2005 5 vols.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy   PS 374 535 G74 2005 4 vols.
Modern American Women Writers  PS 151 M54 1991
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature  PS 21 E537 2004

International Literature
All Things Shakespeare    PR 2892 O56 2002
Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome  PA 3002 A5 1982 2 vols.
British Writers     PR 85 B688
Dictionary of Mexican Literature  PQ 7106 D53 1992
European Writers    PN 501 E9 1983
Latino and Latina Writers  PS 153 H56 L39 2004
New Oxford Companion to Lit. in French PQ 41 N49 1995
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales   PN3437 O94 2000

Criticism
Black Literature Criticism   PS 153 N5 B556 1992
Critical Survey of Long Fiction   PN 3451 C7
Critical Survey of Poetry   PR 502 C85 1992
Critical Survey of Short Fiction  PN 3321 C7 1993
Critical Survey of Drama   PR 623 C75 1985
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism  PN 610 C53
Contemporary Literary Criticism  PN 771 C6
Pre-Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904 PR 85 N39 1985
Twentieth Century British Literature  PR 473 T84
Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904 PR 85 C76 1985
Twentieth Century American Literature PS 221 1834 1985

BOOKS
________ NVCC Catalog
________ GMU - George Mason University Catalog
________ FirstSearch-World Catalog
Perform a SUBJECT search to locate criticism or interpretation of the author.  Type author's last name first.
Select VIEW RECORD to review the complete catalog entry.
Locations  (AL, AN, LO, MA, WO) intercampus loan available, allow 2 -3 days.
Scan Table of Contents, Index, and Bibliography for keywords and additional resources.

MAGAZINES and NEWSPAPERS (requires remote access)
Email and varying amounts of full text articles are available.  Intercampus loan available - 2 days, .10 per page.
Magazine/Journal Databases
______   Literature Resources from Gale 
_______ Literature Criticism Online
_______ MagillOnLiterature Plus
_______ ProQuest  
_______ JSTOR

 WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES
1.  English Server 
2.  Project Crow    (American Lit.)   
3.  SurLaLune Fairy Tales
4.  Literary Resources  
5.  Native American Authors Bibliographies, biographies, and links to interviews, online texts, etc. 
6.  NVCC  Literature resources
7.  Best Information on the Net
8.  Yahoo - Literature     
9. Celebration of Women Writers 
10. Voice of the Shuttle  
11. Search Engines -   Ask, Google, MSN, or Vivisimo
12. Internet Public Library - online literary criticism 
 

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Revised Friday, August 22, 2008
Comments to Jennifer Reynolds