内容简介：
Each volume in this award-winning 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 Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. Approximately 90-95% of 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).