Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series: Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald

Overview

Features & Benefits

• Each DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY volume has an expert volume editor responsible for planning the volume, selecting the figures for inclusion, and assigning the entries.
• Volume editors are also responsible for surveying the major periodicals and literary and intellectual movements for their volumes, as well as lists of further readings.
• To enhance the reader's understanding of the author by a knowledge of his or her environment, DLB volumes include not only drawings, paintings, and photographs of authors, often at various stages of their careers, but also illustrations of their families and places where they have lived.
• Title pages are regularly reproduced in facsimile along with dust jackets for modern authors.
• Manuscripts and letters are included when feasible.

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