A comprehensive reference for all things literary in the nation's capital.

A compelling portrait of Washington, D.C. through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contem

Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.

An anthology of new fiction and poetry from the DC-MVA region

A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictio