American index with biographies, bibliographies and analyses of more than 160,000 authors and their work. Contains more than 85,000 essays and reviews, one million articles and 130,000 audio clips. Provides information about authors worldwide from all disciplines and times. For literary scholars, students and enthusiasts.

Database of biographical information and bibliographic data of more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and screenwriters. Read about authors such as J.K. Rowling, Isabel Allende and Toni Morrison. The database is continuously updated and supplemented. For researchers, students and journalists.

Digitized series of nearly 100 English-language books with essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 authors from all over the world and from all time periods. Read about Plato, Shakespeare, Isabel Allende and the Grimm brothers and place their works in personal and historical context. For literary research.

Essays on the life and work of more than 1,400 authors from all over the world and from different eras. Each essay contains biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. Useful for anyone who is engaged in literary research.

All parts of Gale's Something About the Author series. Contains information in the form of texts and images about the life and work of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. Ideal for anyone who delves into literature for young people.

Hundreds of books from the Twayne's Author Series about authors from around the world and from different eras. Contains detailed information about the life and work of the authors, the history of literary movements and the development of literary genres. Useful for anyone working with the study of literature.

Oxford University Press database with over 200,000 articles on art and architecture worldwide, from classical antiquity to the present day. Search by period or region, by art form or movement. Illustrated with more than 19,000 images. For students and anyone interested in architecture or art.

Sirkwy is a website of Tresoar, the Fries Historisch en Letterkundig Centrum (Frisian Historical and Literary Centre). Includes information about Frisian literature. From writers, their work and literary awards to the newly published Frisian titles and news from the literary world. For anyone interested in Frisian literature.

Lexicon of German-language literary authors from the Middle Ages to the present day. Contains more than 20,000 articles that link to each other via keywords. With biographical information and comprehensive biographies, and with links to library collections where possible. For historians and Germanists.