Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Compiled by Emmanual S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
SML Main Reference PS374 N63 C66X 1993

This work offers "up-to-date biographical, bibliographical, and critical information" on fifty-seven contemporary gay American novelists. Each entry includes a biography, major works and themes, critical reception, selected works by the author, and selected studies about the author.

Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Compiled by Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
SML Main Reference PS153 L46 C65 1993

This work, similar to Contemporary gay American novelist in purpose and structure, includes sections for one hundred lesbian writers. There are concluding sections for publishers of lesbian literature, selected periodicals of interest to readers of lesbian writings, and a bibliography of selected non-fiction on lesbian issues.

Foster, David William. Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
SML Main Reference PQ7081.3 F63X 1994

This work contains 130 bio-bibliographical essays for Latin Americans writing in Spanish and Portuguese as well as other languages and U. S. Latinos writing in English. Included are gay professed authors, authors of gay and lesbian themes, and authors whose works are expressive of gay sensibility. Each essay offers biographical information, a discussion of literary significance, and a bibliography of works by and about the author.

The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Claude J. Summers. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
SML Main Reference PN56 H57 G365X 1995

Includes critical essays on major gay and lesbian writers in world literature; national or ethnic literatures; topics, groups, and movements; genres; influential writers in neighboring fields.

Gay and Lesbian Literature. Edited by Sharon Malinowski. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room PN56 H57 +G36X 1994

Serves as an "extensive compilation of biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on more than two hundred authors who have figured prominently in gay and lesbian literature and culture since 1900." Each entry includes biographical information, writings by the author, writings about the author, and a critical essay. Indexes for names, nationality, gender, general subject and genre, and awards are included.

Furtado, Ken and Nancy Hellner. Gay and Lesbian American Plays: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
SML Stacks Z1229 G25 F87X 1993 (LC)

Young, Ian. The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 2nd Ed. 1982
SML, Stacks Z7164 S42 Y68 1982 (LC)

This unannotated bibliography "is an alphabetical listing by author of English-language works of fiction, drama, poetry and autobiography concerned with homosexuality or having male homosexual characters." The work concludes with several essays on gay literature and a title index.