Cengage Learning

Contemporary Authors

  • Volume 420
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  • ISBN-10: 141038716X
  • ISBN-13: 9781410387165
  • DDC: 920
  • Grade Level Range: 10th Grade - College Senior
  • 466 Pages | eBook
  • Previous Editions: 2019, 2019, 2019
  • Original Copyright 2019 | Published/Released December 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: 141038702X | ISBN-13: 9781410387028

Table of Contents

Abarbanell, Stephan.
Allen, Megan.
Ancrum, Kayla.
Andersen, Hope.
Angot, Christine.
Arbor, Julianne Skai.
Baker, Mark W.
Bargh, John.
Bells, H. G.
Blake, Bethany.
Bognanni, Peter.
Brashear, Amy.
Broadway, Alice.
Brooke, Taylor.
Brooks, Lisa.
Brown, Anne Greenwood.
Burman, Howard.
Burrows, Jez.
Burton, Jeffrey B.
Byrne, Elizabeth.
Camp, Bryan.
Carlile, Penny.
Carlstrom, Gregg.
Carnine, Doug.
Carrion, Jorge.
Cartaya, Pablo.
Carter, Elizabeth L.
Caruso, Melissa.
Carver, Catherine.
Cast, Carter.
Chanani, Nidhi.
Chao, Wei Yang.
Chaplin, Heather.
Chatlien, Ruth Hull.
Choi, Mary H. K.
Ciacci, Vince.
Civalleri, Patty.
Clarke, Neil.
Cole, Alyssa.
Davenport, Christian.
Davidson, Rob.
Davis, Evan.
Deetz, Kelley Fanto.
Delury, Jane.
Dempsey, Judith A.
Devon, Scott.
Donahue, Kathryn.
Dowdall, Anna.
Drinan, Cara H.
Dudley, Lawrence.
Duncan, Mike.
Dunne, Kate Robinson.
Elliott, Diane.
Elmquist, Jen.
Ely, Lyndsay.
Enyi, Patricia Nmukoso.
Ernshaw, Shea.
Evans, Claire L.
Ezell, Heather.
Fan, Mary.
Feliz, Mary.
Field, Kendra Taira.
Findakly, Brigitte.
Fitzharris, Lindsey.
Friedman, Jaclyn.
Fries, Kenny.
Garfield, Charles.
Gaston, Rozsa.
Gates, Suzanne.
Gianopoulos, Panio.
Giorgione, Michael.
Goedjen, Tara.
Goenawan, Clarissa.
Graceffa, Joey.
Gray, Beverly.
Gregory, Ted.
Griffin, Emily Ziff.
Gschwandtner, L. B.
Guerra, Shannon.
Guffey, Robert.
Gurba, Myriam.
Hagan, Joe.
Hardcastle, Kevin.
Hardison, Jim.
Harlick, R. J.
Harris, Malcolm.
Harrison, Phil.
Houts, Julie.
Howarth, Paul.
Howey, Hugh.
Hudson, Robert.
Hughes, Mary Ellen.
Irving, Apricot.
Iturbe, Antonio.
Jackson, Dewayne A.
Jacob, Charlee.
Katsoulis, Gregory Scott.
Keener, Jessica.
Kelly, Scott.
Kerpen, Carrie.
Kmitta, K. P.
Knoerle, John.
Kothari, Falguni.
Kranes, David.
Krefft, Vanda.
Kuipers, Melissa.
Lang, Eli.
Lauden, S. W.
Lawlor, Andrea.
Lawrence, John A.
Leadon, Fran.
Lee, Bandy X.
Lefebvre, Noemi.
Lloyd, Jason.
Lombardo, A. G.
Maldonado, Isabella.
Maroh, Julie.
Marquis, Susan L.
Martino, Carmela A.
Marx, William.
McGurk, Linda Akeson.
Mcintosh, Matthew.
McKeon, Lauren.
McLayne, Alyson.
Merer, Todd.
Merrill, Robin.
Middleton, William.
Mira y Lopez, Thomas.
Montemarano, Nicholas.
Moon, Sarah.
Morelli, Frank.
Moskovich, Yelena.
Moyer, J. D.
Munat, Florrie.
Nadella, Satya.
Namdar, Ruby.
Noble, Safiya Umoja.
Nolte, Nick.
Nwokolo, Chuma.
O'Donnell, Nicholas.
Olivas, Daniel A.
Olukotun, Deji Bryce.
O'Reilly, Tim.
Osborne, Andrew.
Otten, Cathy.
Palmer, Ingrid.
Pamuntjak, Laksmi.
Pappu, Sridhar.
Parks, Alan.
Parr, Patrick.
Paul, Steve.
Perlow, S. M.
Petrocelli, Bill.
Petroff, Shani.
Phillips, Krista.
Pineiro, Caridad.
Pitts, Tom.
Ponti, James.
Popp, Gina Hooten.
Press, Joy.
Price, Planaria.
Raimi, Daniel.
Rakel, David.
Ramos, Jorge.
Rao, Maya.
Ravage, John W.
Roth, Alisa.
Ruopp, Jonathan E. Sr.
Salum, Loris Simon.
Sangster, Caitlin.
Santarelli, Barbara.
Schaffhausen, Joanna.
Schaller, K. B.
Scheinman, Ted.
Schomburg, Zachary.
Scutts, Joanna.
Segrelles, Vicente.
Sexsmith, Ron.
Shibasaki, Tomoka.
Shlesinger, Iliza.
Simonson, Sheila.
Smith, Laura.
Summerfield, Zulema Renee.
Swan, Karen.
Thomas, Wendall.
Thornhill, Teresa.
Tickell, Josh.
Tillman, Aaron.
Trueblood, Amy.
Truong, Marcelino.
Underwood, Richard H.
Vanasco, Jeannie.
Varoufakis, Yanis.
Vitale, Alex.
Waichler, Iris.
Wald, Ellen R.
Walden, Tillie.
Walker, Matthew.
Wardell, Heather.
Zaske, Sara.
Zorn, Claire.
Zygar, Mikhail.