Gale Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. This database brings together materials that support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time. More than 160,000 biographies from Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1.1 million full-text articles from over 450 scholarly journals and literary magazines, and 85,000 full-text critical essays and reviews from notable reference series are included.