The Salon.com reader's guide to contemporary authors / edited by Laura Miller with Adam Begley.

Hardboiled mystery writers : Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald : a literary reference / edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman.

The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story / Blanche H. Gelfant, editor.

Contemporary African American novelists : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.

Contemporary black American fiction writers / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Encyclopedia of contemporary writers and their work / Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones.

100 great American novels you've (probably) never read / Karl Bridges.

The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story / Blanche H. Gelfant, editor.

Contemporary novelists / editor, Susan Windisch Brown.

Afro-American fiction writers after 1955 / edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris.

Twentieth century science fiction writers / editor, Curtis C. Smith.

100 most popular genre fiction authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies / Bernard A. Drew.

Women of mystery : the lives and works of notable women crime novelists / Martha Hailey DuBose ; with additional essays by Margaret Caldwell Thomas.

Critical survey of short fiction. Topical essays / editor, Charles E. May.

Novelists with gay and lesbian themes / editor: Carl Rollyson.

Women authors of detective series : twenty-one American and British writers, 1900-2000 / by Moira Davison Reynolds.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English / edited by Jenny Stringer ; With an Introduction by John Sutherland.

Scents of wood and silence : short stories by Latin American women writers / edited by Kathleen Ross and Yvette E. Miller ; introduction by Kathleen Ross.

Contemporary authors.

Contemporary authors; a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.