Current state of Russian author lexicography

The article discusses the features that characterize the current state of Russian author lexicography. An overview of dictionaries created over the past 15 years and the analysis of research literature reveal such features as the increasing interest of specialists in the origins of this dictionary branch, the complication of its internal structure, the multidimensional seriality of author dictionaries, the modification of some traditional vocabulary genres, preparation of new types of author dictionaries, etc.