| Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker, 1875-1912. | Ref CT1053 A5 |
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| Kosch, Wilhelm. Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon; biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch. 3rd ed. Bern, Munich: Francke, 1968-. (In progress.) | Ref PT85 A1K64 |
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| Contemporary Authors |
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| German Fiction Writers, 1885-1913. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 66. 2 v. Detroit: Gale, 1988. | Ref PT771 G47 1988 |
| Contemporary German fiction writers. First series. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 69. Detroit: Gale, 1988. | Ref PT772 C59 1988 |
| Contemporary German fiction writers. Second series. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 75. Detroit: Gale, 1988. | Ref PT772 C59 1988 |
| Austrian Fiction Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 81. Detroit: Gale, 1989. | Ref PT3814 A97 1989 |
| Austrian Fiction Writers after 1914. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 85. Detroit: Gale, 1989 | Ref PT3814 A98 1989 |
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| German Writers in the Age of Goethe, Sturm und Drang to Classicism. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 94. Detroit: Gale, 1990 | Ref PT311 G48 1990 |
| German Writers from the Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang, 1720-1764. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 97. Detroit: Gale, 1990 | Ref PT293 G47 1990 |
| Twentieth-century German Dramatists 1889-1918. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 118. Detroit: Gale, 1992. | Ref PT666 T86 1992 |
| Twentieth-century German Dramatists 1919-1992. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 118. Detroit: Gale, 1992. | Ref PT666 T87 1992 |
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| Nineteenth-century German Writers to 1840. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 133. Detroit: Gale, 1993. | Ref PT351 N56 1993 |
| German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages, 1170-1280. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 138. Detroit: Gale, 1994. | Ref PT155 G54 1994 |
| German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages, 800-1170. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 148. Detroit: Gale, 1995. | Ref PT193 G47 1995 |
| German Baroque Writers, 1580-1660. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 164. Detroit: Gale, 1996. | Ref PT271 G47 1996 |
| German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 168. Detroit: Gale, 1996. | Ref PT271 G48 1996 |
| German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 179. Detroit: Gale, 1997. | Ref PT241 G47 1997 |
| Poetry Criticism. Detroit: Gale. Library has v. 1-current. | Ref PN1111 P6 |
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| Magill, F., ed. Critical Survey of Poetry: Foreign Language Series. 5 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1984. | Ref PN41 C7 1984 |
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