LibGuides: Young Adult Literature: Authors

Finding Information about YA Authors

These databases provide profiles of YA authors (their lives, work, and common themes):

Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
This series examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source of authors and literature for young people. Included here: full access to volumes 1-367.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Literature Full-text biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Literature Online(LION) This link opens in a new window
Subject: Theatre Arts, Literature Literary criticisms, biographies of authors, reference resources, plus works of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the sixth century to the present day.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Theatre Arts, Literature Biographical information on an author and excerpts of criticism of their work, from the first published critical commentaries to the present. Search “Named Work” for a specific work. Includes Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, & Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Languages, Literature & Mass Communication, Theatre Arts Index with some full-text to journal articles, books, and dissertations in literature, folklore, dramatic arts, literary criticism, literary theory, and modern languages and linguistics; 1920-current; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.