This is an online index for book and author information found in large, Gale Group reference sets such as Contemporary Authors, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Short Story Criticism, World Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. "It combines and cross-references over 159,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 210,000 titles into one source." (from site 03/19/07) (GB/JS)