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Searches across several Gale literary databases, including Literature Criticism, Gale eBooks - Biography & Literature collections, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Something About the Author (biographical and critical information on children's and YA authors). Formerly named Gale Literary Sources, Artemis Literary.
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Biographical and critical essays covering over 12,000 (mostly) American and British authors. Essays range from 10-20 pages long and include lengthy suggested readings. You'll find lengthy info in here on Stoker, Tolkien, Saramago, and O'Brien (be sure to put the ' in his name, it makes a difference in the results!), and the poets Hughes, Milosz, Levertov, Neruda, Machado, Reed, Garcia Lorca, Sassoon, Owen and Alexie.