The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain by The Prince and the Pauper
The Innocents Abroad
Roughing It
On the Art of Writing
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
| Sinclair Lewis (1930) | John Steinbeck (1962) |
| Eugene O'Neill (1936) | Saul Bellow (1976) |
| Pearl S.Buck (1938) | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) |
| William Faulkner (1949) | Toni Morrison (1978) |
| Ernest Hemingway (1954) | Bob Dylan (2016) |
| Louise Gluck (2020) |
Biographical information is available in a variety of resources in the Mount Aloysius College Library.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is located in Faculty Wing of the Main Administration Building. This series presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a complete list of the individual titles in the series, search Dictionary of Literary Biography by "series" in Mountlink. (Note: Several titles from this series that cover Children's literature remain in the Library's collection in "Main") on the second floor.
Use the Gale Literary Index to determine the volume number in which information about a particular author can be found.
Additionally, many specialized titles are available in the MAIN collection in the "P"s. A few examples are Latin American Writers (PQ7081.A1.L37), the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (PS147.O94), and another series, American Writers (PS129.A55).
Biographical works about a specific author can be located in Mountlink by doing a subject keyword search for the author, by last name, AND biography, e.g., Frost AND biography.
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Pearl S. Buck (1938)
William Faulkner ( 1949)
Toni Morrison (1993)