Download or read book Cyclopedia of World Authors written by Frank Northen Magill and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1958 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2,408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wrote key works.