"This is the first collection of bio-critical essays on Latin American writers by scholars from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. It includes over 176 chroniclers, novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights from the 16th century to the present in a 3-vol. set."

"Includes critical studies of poets, novelists, and playwrights as well as journalists, statesmen, revolutionaries, clergy, diarists, and philosophers, some known internationally, such as Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, and Octavio Paz, others known throughout Latin America, and still others known only in certain areas, times, or fields of interest." (Powells.com)