Fantasy Authors: A Research Guide (Author Research)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591584973 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Designed for students, readers' advisors, fantasy fans, and other researchers, this guide is a launching point for researching popular fantasy authors (and their work) and finding new ones. It includes entries for approximately 100 leading contemporary and popular authors.
Nice overview exotec I'm an avid fantasy fan, and this is a nice way to follow authors I know I like compared to others I may not know yet. Like I need to expand my to-read mountain any more! LOL
She holds an MA in English and an MLIS. She previously published The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites (Libraries Unlimited).Dorothea Salo is the Digital Repository Services Librarian at George Mason University. She holds an MA in Spanish literature and linguistics and an MLIS.. Jen Stevens is the Humanities Liaison Librarian at George Mason University
A list of authors by type following the entries can serve this function for authors not included in the “read-alike” lists. The details are what make this book. More than 20 author entries also have “read-alike” lists to provide readers with suggestions for similar authors. From Booklist Although there are a number of readers’-advisory guides for fantasy, this one, part of the new Author Research Guides series, combines elements of readers’ advisory and research tools. Each biographical sketch ends with a quote from the author; the research sources include interviews; and the Web sites include official author and estate sites. --Cynthia Crosser . Entries for around 100 contemporary and historical fantasy writers are arranged alphabetically, and each includes a short biographical sketch and lists