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Literature Resource Center from Gale is the world’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. It provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every literary time period and discipline. Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical, and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical-thinking skills. 

It combines information from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twayne's Author Series, and Scribner Writer Series. With full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, Literature Resource Center covers more than 124,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers and provides a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all parts of the world.