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SubscribeThomson Gale Announces Release of Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 329
Title is First in Set of Four Focusing on Nobel Prize-Winning Authors
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Dec. 12, 2006 – Thomson Gale, part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), announces the release of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 329: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature Part I: Agnon-Eucken. The Dictionary of Literary Biography series, produced by Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. and published by Thomson Gale, is now in its 28th year.
Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature is a four-volume set dedicated to the 101 authors who have won the world’s most celebrated – and remunerative – annual literary prize. The series assembles biographical essays for every recipient from the first laureate, French poet Sully Prudhomme (1901), to the 2005 winner, English dramatist Harold Pinter. Each entry includes t he full transcription of the Swedish Academy’s presentation speech and the winner’s comments, speeches and/or statements, as well as a narrative essay focusing on the laureate’s career and canonical standing. Representing a wide variety of genres and nationalities, entries also include a primary bibliography of the author’s works and a secondary bibliography of relevant supporting material.
Arranged alphabetically, the first volume presents entries on Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Winston Churchill and T. S. Eliot, among 18 others. Illustrations include photographs of laureates receiving their awards and facsimiles of the laureates’ manuscript pages. The first in a four-part set that will be available in both print and eBook form, Nobel Prize Laureates is the first classic reference on the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.
For more information on Dictionary of Literary Biography 329: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature or to request a review copy, contact Vanessa Birch at vanessa.birch@cengage.com.
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