Gale’s Literary Index

Gale’s Literary Index provides a master index to 59 of the literary series published by The Gale Group (including Contemporary Authors, Something About the Author, and others). A full list of the series indexed is listed on the help pages within the site. This free index cross‐references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variations thereof, and covers critical analyses of over 140,000 of their works.

The home page offers users three search options. On the author search page, users can choose to have the search match any combination of first, middle and/or last name, or just...