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Current, Comprehensive, and Reliable: The Story Behind the Story

With Literature Resource Center you can:

Find up-to-date biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Gain access to more than 1,100,000 full-text articles, critical essays, and reviews from more than 450+ scholarly journals and literary magazines.
Discover approximately 130,000 audio files, many of which link to NPR programs.
Stay current! Major literary news is reflected in the authors’ biographical coverage within 48 hours. Full-text periodical articles are added daily, as soon as the publisher makes them available.

Literature Resource Center is free and easy to access from home with your library card and PIN, or from any of our libraries' computer stations.

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Current, Comprehensive, and Reliable: The Story Behind the Story

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