Ann E. De León

Covering the literature of Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the present, gives succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history.