- Pioneers of early childhood education, a bio-bibliographical guide, Barbara Ruth Peltzman
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- The biographical encyclopedia of jazz, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, with the assistance of Swing journal, Tokyo
- British romantic poets, 1789-1832, edited by John R. Greenfield, Second series
- Twentieth-century American-Jewish fiction writers, edited by Daniel Walden
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- Chicano writers, edited by Francisco A. Lomelí and Carl R. Shirley, Third series
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- American poets since World War II, edited by R.S. Gwynn, Third series
- The New Oxford companion to music, general editor, Denis Arnold
- Eighteenth-century British poets, edited by John Sitter, Second series
- German fiction writers, 1885-1913, edited by James Hardin
- British mystery and thriller writers since 1940, edited by Bernard Benstock and Thomas F. Staley, First series
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- British and Irish dramatists since World War II, edited by John Bull, Second series
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- African authors;, a companion to Black African writing,, by Donald E. Herdeck
- British prose writers of the early seventeenth century, edited by Clayton D. Lein
- Latin American mystery writers, an A-to-Z guide, edited by Darrell B. Lockhart
- Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
- British Romantic prose writers, 1789-1832, edited by John R. Greenfield, Second series
- German fiction writers, 1914-1945, edited by James Hardin
- American novelists since World War II, edited by James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles, Fifth series
- Twentieth-century American dramatists, edited by Christopher J. Wheatley
- Danish writers from the Reformation to decadence, 1550-1900, edited by Marianne Stecher-Hansen
- The Brontës, a documentary volume, edited by Susan B. Taylor
- Afro-American writers, 1940-1955, edited by Trudier Harris
- Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky ; edited by Laura Kuhn ; associate editor, Dennis McIntire
- British prose writers, 1660-1800, second series, edited by Donald T. Siebert
- Musicians since 1900, performers in concert and opera, compiled and edited by David Ewen
- American novelists since World War II, edited by James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles, Sixth series
- British novelists since 1960, edited by Merritt Moseley, Fourth series
- Nineteenth century French fiction writers, romanticism and realism, 1800-1860, edited by Catharine Savage Brosman
- American women prose writers to 1820, edited by Carla Mulford, with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans
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- Contemporary women poets, introductory forwards by Elizabeth M. Mills, Diane Wakoski ; editor, Pamela L. Shelton
- World music, the rough guide, editors, Simon Broughton [and others] ; contributing editor, Kim Burton
- The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties,, by Leonard Feather. Foreword by John Lewis
- Nineteenth-century American fiction writers, edited by Kent P. Ljungquist
- Japanese fiction writers, 1868-1945, edited by Van C. Gessel
- Novelists on the American Civil War, edited by George Parker Anderson
- Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Third series
- Seventeenth-Century British nondramatic poets, edited by M. Thomas Hester, Second series