Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: American Short Stories Research: Books

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For books including literary criticism of an author's works, try typing in as keywords the author's name and truncate the word "criticism" - for example, Oates and critic*
You can also use your author's name in the subject field for biographical and critical material about your author's work.
You can also try searching the name of the short story in which you are interested as keywords.
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