Cengage Learning

Contemporary Authors

  • Volume 413
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  • ISBN-10: 1410380300
  • ISBN-13: 9781410380302
  • DDC: 920
  • Grade Level Range: 10th Grade - College Senior
  • 465 Pages | eBook
  • Previous Editions: 2018, 2018, 2018
  • Original Copyright 2018 | Published/Released July 2018
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Overview

Find biographical information on more than 160,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors’ comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.

Features and Benefits

  • Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, adaptations, biographical and critical sources, and informative essays about authors’ lives and works.
  • The series also includes a select number of autobiographical essays, about 10,000 words in length, written by the authors themselves and accompanied by a selection of unique family photos.
  • The Gale Literary Index, which can be accessed online at http://www.cengage.com/, contains references to all entries in the series as well as in other Gale literature reference works.

What's New

  • All entries in this volume are new (see Table of Contents for listing.)

Alternate Formats

  • Casebound Edition

    ISBN-10: 1410380262 | ISBN-13: 9781410380265

Table of Contents

Acosta, Rina Mae.
Ashworth, A. R.
Atogun, Odafe.
Baekgaard, Barbara Bradley.
Bahrami, Beebe.
Baker, Mishell.
Ball, Bethany.
Bartelme, Tony.
Bickford, Susan Alice.
Blatt, Ben.
Bloom, Ira.
Bornstein, Michael.
Bourland, Barbara.
Brewer, Killian B.
Brisby, Kit.
Butler, Marcia.
Campbell, Amalya.
Carroll, Leah.
Chaney, JoAnn.
Chapman, Steven Curtis.
Cocco, Giovanni.
Cohen-Scali, Sarah.
Cole, Daniel.
Crossley, Alison Dahl.
Cutler, Melissa.
Davis, Jack E.
Davis, Rob.
Dawn, Sasha.
Desai, Mihir A.
DeYoung, Andrew.
Doran, Fionnuala.
Eames, Nicholas.
Eberlen, Kate.
Edge, John T.
Ellingsen, Berit.
Forshaw, Jeff.
Frank, Michael.
Galloway, Stephen.
Ganshert, Katie.
Giolito, Malin Persson.
Glinert, Lewis.
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Gonzales, Andrea.
Gordon, Edmund.
Gragg, Walt.
Green, Louise.
Haddad, Douglas.
Halford, Macy.
Han Yujoo.
Hartnett, Annie.
Hayes, Peter.
Henson, Pene.
Hickie, Amanda.
Hiekkapelto, Kati.
Holinstat, Debbie Bornstein.
Honeywell, Antonia.
Horsley, Kate.
Houser, Sophie.
Howard, Catherine Ryan.
Jackson, Vivien.
Jarecki, Amy.
Jego, Yves.
Johnson, Anne E.
Johnston, Michael.
Jones, Chipper.
Kading, Bruce.
Kalfar, Jaroslav.
Kalka, Joachim.
Kelly, Helena.
Kennedy, Jesse James.
Lidsky, Isaac.
Linder, Joselin.
Linton, Chalon.
Liptrot, Amy.
Long Soldier, Layli.
Loveday, Simon.
Love, Melissa Scrivner.
Lovestam, Sara.
Ludwig, Benjamin.
Mackenzie, Vicki.
Macor, Alison.
Madsbjerg, Christian.
Mafi, Maryam.
Magariel, Daniel.
Magella, Amneris.
Makabe, Kaz.
Mann, Mary.
Manzetti, Alessandro.
Marnell, Cat.
Massey, Alana.
McAllister, Tom.
Merrick, Kate.
Merritt, Carol Howard.
Merritt, Tom.
Newell, Brittany.
Nicholson, Hope.
Nordbak, Jenny.
Nowinski, Hanna.
Orr, Jill.
Osterholm, Michael T.
Palmer, Ada.
Palmer, Hannah.
Parker, Morgan.
Payne, Mary Jennifer.
Pennington, Lisa.
Peterson, Amy.
Peterson, Zoey Leigh.
Petrosyan, Mariam.
Phillips, Michael.
Philp, Drew.
Pinchbeck, Daniel.
Piore, Adam.
Pogrebin, Abigail.
Probert, John Llewellyn.
Purnell, Carolyn.
Raabe, Marc.
Radel, Trey.
Rader, Dean.
Radtke, Kristen.
Raicovich, Laura.
Ramqvist, Karolina.
Ramsay, Hope.
Raverat, Anna.
Rehmeyer, Julie.
Rekulak, Jason.
Reynolds, Nicholas.
Richardson, Sara.
Ripp, Victor.
Robertson, Ian.
Rochman, Bonnie.
Rosson, Keith.
Ruby, Ryan.
Ruddock, Jesse.
Ruden, Sarah.
Ryan, Reese.
Salerno, Christopher.
Santiago, Mikel.
Scapellato, Joseph.
Sears, J. P.
Smith, Patricia A.
Smith, S. A.
Snyder, Christina.
Sparks, Jeremy.
Spencer, Nick.
Spruill, Marjorie J.
Starnone, Domenico.
Stellman, Jason J.
Stewart, Thomas Gregory.
Stoker, Susan.
Strawn, Brent A.
Strawser, Jessica.
Straza, Erin M.
Stromberg, Lisen.
Stuart, Kimberly.
Sudjic, Olivia.
Sullivan, Felicia C.
Summers, Michael E.
Sunim, Haemin.
Taplin, Jonathan.
Taylor, Whitney.
Thompson, Elizabeth Laing.
Thompson, Marcus II.
Tiller, Carl Frode.
Tingley, Nancy.
Tinti, Peter.
Tobolowsky, Stephen.
Tomasi, Peter J.
Torjussen, Mary.
Trunkey, Laura.
Turbow, Jason.
Umansky, Ellen.
Underdown, Beth.
Underwood, Kassi.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak.
Valcourt, James R.
Vanderborght, Yannick.
Van Dyken, Rachel.
Van Fleet, Heather.
Van Reet, Brian.
Velasquez, Lizzie.
Vennie, Quentin.
Wallace, Matt.
Ward, Catriona.
Watson, Jo.
Wazem, Pierre.
Webber, Katherine.
Weisenfeld, Judith.
Welsh, Kaite.
Westmore, Michael.
Wheeler, Andrew.
Whipple, Chris.
White, Elle Katharine.
White, Ryan.
Wicker, Kate.
Wilkins, Robert Leon.
Wright, James.
Wytsma, Ken.
Young, Melissa Scholes.
Ze Winters, Lisa.
Zipf, Karin L.