Part of the award-winning Contemporary Authors® series, Contemporary Authors® First Revision contains bio-bibliographical information on novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, and other authors. 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. Updating the information on authors from the first 44 volumes of Contemporary Authors®, the 11 volumes in the First Revision series, coupled with the Contemporary Authors® Permanent Series (2 volumes) replace the Contemporary Authors® original volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5-6 through 41-44. Updated author entries are now published through the more efficient Contemporary Authors® New Revision series.