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.

Hamilton, Geoff.

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

Bridges, Karl, 1964-

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.