The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at gale.com/scribners. The 36 essays include eight sorely-needed revisions and 28 on writers who have come to the fore since the publication of the base set in 1989. Coverage includes Isabel Allende, Guillermo Cabrero Infante, Ernesto Cardenal and more.