The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Each year approximately 130 scholars from around the world choose 5,000 works for inclusion alternating between the social sciences and the humanities.
"Biographical sketches of some 400 influential literary, political, and scholarly authors from the US, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America."