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These databases, although they contain chiefly critical articles, may be helpful.

Academic OneFile
Click on the Subject Guide Search, then enter the author's name as last name, first name, e.g., Chopin, Kate.
JSTOR
Use the Advanced Search and check off "Articles "under Item Type. Uncheck "Include links to external content" at first to see only available articles.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors by Frank N. Magill (Editor); Tracy Irons-Georges (Editor)
Call Number: REF 809 C99 2004

ISBN: 158765122X

Publication Date: 2003
The Companion to African Literatures by Douglas Killam (Editor); Ruth Rowe (Editor); G. D. Killam
Call Number: REF 820.99603 C73

ISBN: 0253336333

Publication Date: 2000
Encyclopedia of Arabic literature by Julie Scott Meisami; Paul Starkey
Call Number: REF 892.70903 En1

ISBN: 0415185718

Publication Date: 1998
The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart; Phillip Leininger (Revised by)
Call Number: REF 810.3 H25 1995

ISBN: 0195065484

Publication Date: 1995
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by Eugene Benson; William Toye (Editor)
Call Number: REF 809.8971 Ox2

ISBN: 0195411676

Publication Date: 1998

A concise encyclopedia
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson
Call Number: REF 880.3 H26

ISBN: 9780199548545

Publication Date: 2011

Revised and updated, concise encyclopedia
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor)
Call Number: REF 820.3 Ox2

ISBN: 0198662440

Publication Date: 2000
Latin American Women Writers by María Claudia André (Editor); Eva Paulino Bueno (Editor)
ISBN: 1315788381

Publication Date: 2008
Native American Literatures by Kathy J. Whitson
Call Number: REF 810.9897 W61

ISBN: 0874369320

Publication Date: 1999