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Look for the following types of materials for your research for more about your author:

Look for the following types of materials for your research about influences either yourself or your author:

Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
"Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more."

Paris Review
Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
Association of Writers & Writing Program - Publications
"The Association of Writers & Writing Programs fosters literary achievement, advances the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serves the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing." The library does not subscribe to this resource, but there is free content to access.