Jen Stevens is the Humanities Liaison Librarian at George Mason University. She holds an MA in English and an MLIS. She previously published The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites (Libraries Unlimited).Dorothea Salo is the Digital Repository Services Librarian at George Mason University. She holds an MA in Spanish literature and linguistics and an MLIS.

Although there are a number of readers'-advisory guides for fantasy, this one, part of the new Author Research Guides series, combines elements of readers' advisory and research tools….The details are what make this book. Each biographical sketch ends with a quote from the author; the research sources include interviews; and the Web sites include official author and estate sites. More than 20 author entries also have read-alike lists to provide readers with suggestions for similar authors.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionFantasy as a GenreFantasy TimelineHow to Use This BookAlphabetical List of AuthorsAuthor EntriesLists of Authors by TypeLists of Major AwardsGeneral BibliographyIndex