Find biographical information on more than 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work. Beginning with Vol. 187, Contemporary Authors RM will expand its coverage to include more international authors, devoting 20% of each volume to authors from outside the U.S. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year.