The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) series covers a wide range of Spanish and Latin American writers. Entries for each author include a list of publications; a "career biography" (DLB Advisory
Board's term) covering the writer's life and major works; editions of letters; biographies; other
selected secondary literature including interviews, websites, and
obituaries; and numerous photographs, manuscript and book cover
reproductions. Comprehensive and reliable. Volumes are organized by subject. These are reference works that must be used in the library.
Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Covers the nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus' voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.