The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press, its first edition dated 1985. It contains over 3,000 articles on Australian subjects: authors, titles, and literary topics, ranging in length from 100 to 5,000 words, arranged alphabetically. It has around 830 pages and is bound uniformly with The Oxford Companion to Australian History and, no doubt, others in the series. The essay-length articles are mostly credited to their authors, otherwise entries are published anonymously. The preface acknowledges a debt to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
The second edition, published 1994, was edited by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews (died 1987). All three were academics at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
"The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature is a landmark"