Provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and more. Includes biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.

The database is built from:

• All entries from the Contemporary Authors Online series which offers biographical coverage of more than 100,000 authors
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studies authors from editions prior to vol. 95
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars
• Full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama/Criticsim, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticsim, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• Articles about authors from 74 literary journals (coverage varies - some journals are covered back to 1980)
• 4000 explications and overviews of prominent literary works
• Links to 5000 websites focusing on major authors and their works
• Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring more than 10,000 descriptive entries on literary figures, works and terms.