
Encyclopedia of World Writers: 19th and 20th Centuries covers the most important writers outside of the U.S., Britain, and Ireland in the last two centuries. This comprehensive one-volume guide contains insightful, A-to-Z entries on approximately 300 writers-primarily novelists, poets, dramatists, and short-story writers-whose works are anthologized in textbooks or assigned in high school English courses. Entries range in length from 200 to 1,000 words and include a biographical sketch, synopses of major works, and a brief bibliography.Coverage includes:
Chinua Achebe
Margaret Atwood
Mikhail Bulgakov
Umberto Eco
Gao Xingjian
Knut Hamsun
Mohammad Iqbal
Naghib Mahfouz
Marcel Proust
Emile Zola
and more.