Contemporary Literary Criticism : Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.

Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series include an author portrait.