Author talk:William Roscoe Thayer

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Name: William Roscoe Thayer
Birth - Death: 1859-1923
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Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
American Biographies. By Wheeler Preston. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. (AmBi)
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. A supplement. Six volumes. Edited by L.E. Dearborn. New York: Press Association Compilers, 1918-1931. Originally published as The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Supplementary Edition. (ApCAB X)
Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 3: September, 1952-August, 1955. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1956. (BioIn 3)
Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 22: September, 1996-August 1997. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1997. (BioIn 22)
Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1967. (ChhPo)
A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB)
A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)
The Lincoln Library of Language Arts. Third edition. Two volumes. Columbus, OH: Frontier Press Co., 1978. Biographies begin on page 345 of Volume 1 and are continued in Volume 2. (LinLib L)
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 12. New York: James T. White & Co., 1904. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 12)
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 28. New York: James T. White & Co., 1940. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 28)
The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fourth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (OxCAmL 4)
The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fifth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. (OxCAmL 5)
The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Sixth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (OxCAmL 6)
The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. By Max J. Herzberg. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962. (REnAL)
Twentieth Century Authors. A biographical dictionary of modern literature. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1942. (TwCA)
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)
Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (WhAm 1)
World Authors. 1900-1950. Four volumes. Edited by Martin Seymour- Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1996. (WorAu 1900) Biography contains portrait.