Scholarly books, articles and essays all count as secondary literature. This is a list of databases that may contain literature on your author and are ordered according to relative importance.
NOTE: You can search all of the databases below with a single search by using the "Articles" search on the Library Website, though often you get better results by searching them individually.
Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in the discipline of English and other modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Provides access to Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and selected articles in Contemporary Literary Criticism, as well as other resources.
CLASE indexes literature published in Latin American journals that focus on topics in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Includes scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.