Research Guides: ENGL 4900: English Capstone: Background Sources

A writer uses a background source to establish facts, or present widely accepted and or non-controversial information.

Here are some sources to get you started.

Current Biography
Call Number: CT100 .C8
Periodical: Provides information on writers, actors, artists and historical figures from 1946-2007

Reference Collection
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850 by Ellen R. Kovner (Editor)
Call Number: PS74 .A44 1987
ISBN: 0810317370
Publication Date: 1987-08-15
American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880-1900 by John W. Rathbun (Editor); Monica M. Grecu (Editor)
Call Number: PS74 .A46 1988
ISBN: 0810317494
Publication Date: 1988-07-21
Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography by Matthew Bruccoli
Call Number: PS129 .C66
ISBN: 0810318199
Publication Date: 1993-08-26
Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955 by Trudier Harris-Lopez (Editor)
Call Number: PS153.N5 A386 1988
ISBN: 0810345544
Publication Date: 1988-09-16
Covers authors from 1940-1955
Southern Writers by Robert Bain (Editor); Louis D. Rubin (Editor); Joseph M. Flora (Editor)
Call Number: PS261 .S59
ISBN: 0807103543
Publication Date: 1979-05-01
Twentieth-Century Author Biographies Master Index by Barbara McNeil (Editor)
Call Number: Z5304.A8 T83 1984
ISBN: 0810320959
Publication Date: 1984-07-01

ENGL 4900: English Capstone