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- General Author Information
- The Academy of American Poets
- www.poets.org
- To find more information about a particular poet, click on Find a Poet on the left side of the page
- Book Reporter
- www.bookreporter.com
- Learn about books and read book reviews
- C-Span American Writers
- www.americanwriters.org
- For information on a number of authors who wrote between 1600 and 1975
- Contemporary Writers in the UK
- www.contemporarywriters.com
- Contains: "biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs"
- Educational Paperback Association
- www.edupaperback.org/top100.cfm
- Offers 100 author bios from the Junior Author Series
- Bios cover authors for children and young adults
- InfoPlease Encyclopedia: American Author Biographies
- www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/1uslitbio.html
- Find a list of a number of authors, the click to unearth their bios
- Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
- www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
- View literary criticism, biographical information, and commentary
- Modern American Poetry: The Poets
- www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm
- Contains links to information about, and literary criticism for 161 poets
- Pegasos
- www.kirjasto.sci.fi
- Check out the author calendar by putting in your birthdate and exploring information about authors who share your birthday
- You can also search by author's name
- Teen Reads
- www.teenreads.com
- Offers book reviews, author information, and more for teen readers
- The Victorian Web
- www.victorianweb.org
- Click on "authors" to learn more about a number of Victorian authors
- Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
- http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm
- Here you can learn about Women Writers of Color and their works
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- Learn About Specific Authors
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott
- www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/lma.htm
- Find info about Alcott as well as literary criticism
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou -- The Official Website
- www.mayaangelou.com
- Contains an interview with Maya Angelou
- Avi
- Avi
- www.avi-writer.com
- Find information about AVI and his books
- Official Webpage
- Elizatbeth Bishop
- "The Work!": A Conversation with Elizabeth Bishop
- www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=420
- Ploughshares Magazine presents an interview with Elizabeth Bishop
- Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury: Celebrating a Lifetime of Wonder and Imagination
- www.raybradbury.com
- Contains information about Bradbury, articles about this author and his works, and more
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Bradstreet
- www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/bradbio.htm
- Read this bio about Bradstreet then check out the links at the bottom of the page
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Black History Month
- www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/brooks_g.htm
- Find biographical information here
- Dan Brown
- The Official Web Site of Dan Brown
- www.danbrown.com
- Offers information about Brown, his books and some of the mysteries therein
- Willa Cather
- The Willa Cather Electronic Archive
- www.unl.edu/Cather
- Read the acceptable use agreement then enter this site
- You will find biographical information, several of her works, and some criticism
- Miguel de Cervantes
- The Cervantes Project
- www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english
- Learn about Cervantes' life, view some images, read some texts
- Many of the links connected to this site are in Spanish
- From Texas A&M: Center for the study of Digital Libraries
- Don Quixote de la Mancha
- http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu/index.html
- Visit this online exhibit about Cervantes and Don Quixote
- From Johns Hopkins University
- Tracy Chevalier
- Tracy Chevalier
- www.tchevalier.com
- Contains biographical info, Information about her books, reading group guides, and more
- Sandra Cisneros
- The Authorized Sandra Cisneros Website
- www.sandracisneros.com
- Running your mouse over books offers you a page with a photo of the book and a quote
- Hold your mouse over the heart to direct you to links about her life and works
- Click on buttons to get pictures to play with
- Online Newshour: Conversation: Sandra Cisneros
- www.pbs.org/newshour/conversation/july-dec02/cisneros_10-15.html#
- Listen to and View, or read this interview with Cisneros about writing the book Caramelo
- Best viewed with a quick connection (that means not at school)
- Michael Crichton
- The Official Site of Michael Crichton
- www.crichton-official.com
- Learn more about Crichton and why he became a writer and director
- Read excerpts of his books and discover a little about how they came to exist
- Michael Crichton
- www.randomhouse.com/features/crichton
- Offers information about Crichton and his works
- Look under the author bio for an interview
- Chris Crutcher
- Chris Crutcher: Author, Therapist & King of the Mild Frontier
- www.chriscrutcher.com
- The official website
- Many links to bio, photos, works, and more
- Emily Dickinson
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- www.emilydickinson.org
- Learn about Dickinson's writing practices and others' reactions to her writing
- The Complete Poems: Emily Dickinson
- www.bartleby.com/113
- offers 597 written by Emily Dickinson
- By Bartleby.com
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- First Descents Into The Inferno: Parallel Ideology And Experience In Conrad's 'Heart Of Darkness' And Dostoevsky's Notes From The House Of The Dead
- www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol2no2/descent.html
- Lit Crit by Robert Barry from the University of Otago
- Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky
- www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol1no2/berry1_issue2.html
- Lit Crit by Robert Barry from the University of Otago
- Joyce Carol Oates on Dostoevsky
- www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/onfyodor.html
- Two works of Literary Criticism on Dostoevsky
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- www.dunbarsite.org
- Learn about the "first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet"
- George Eliot
- George Eliot: Biography: From Mary Anne Evans to George Eliot
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english/eliot/middlemarch/bio.html
- Read a little about Eliot's life and a bit about her works
- George Eliot: An Overview
- www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/index.html
- Find information about Eliot, her works, characters, imagery, time in history and more
- From the Victorian Web
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/fitzgeraldbio.html
- Offers bio information as well as information about the stories
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Centenary
- www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
- Visit the Fitzgerald collection at the University of South Carolina
- Find photos of dust jackets and more, biographical information, a chronology ...
- Some links are dead, but still worth the visit
- The Fitzgeralds
- www.zeldafitzgerald.com/fitzgeralds/index.asp
- View biographical information and a chronology
- Advance through the chronology by clicking on the pink arrow at the top of the page, the boxes with circles in them provide images
- Robert Frost
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- The Friends of Robert Frost
- www.frostfriends.org
- Includes relevant places, poetry, chronology, critical works and more
- The Robert Frost Farm
- www.nhstateparks.org/state-parks/alphabetical-order/robert-frost-farm
- Virtually visit the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois
- www.hemingway.org
- "The Foundation fosters understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and his impact on world literature"
- A Hemingway Retrospective
- www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway
- Learn more about Hemingway across the years
- Beware, the Time links are broken
- Timeless Hemingway
- www.timelesshemingway.com
- Use the "folder tabs" at the top of the page to find photos, a family tree, a large number of FAQs and more
- S. E. Hinton
- S.E.Hinton.com
- www.sehinton.com
- Visit this official Website
- Langston Hughes
- A Centennial Tribute to Langston Hughes
- www.howard.edu/library/Assist/Guides/Langston_Hughes.htm
- Offers a short bio as well as many good links
- Meet Amazing Americans: Langston Hughes
- www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes
- Read about Hughes - From the Library of Congress
- Victor Hugo
- Victor Hugo Central
- http://gavroche.org/vhugo
- Offers a ton of information - use the sitemap for an easy way to access what you need
- Constructed by author John Newmark
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Zora Neale Hurston
- www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hurston_z.htm
- Quality information from Gale Group includes bio, bibliography, awards and more
- Henrik Ibsen
- Ibsen.net
- www.ibsen.net
- First you must select English which is found under the calendar portion of the site
- This site from Norway commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Ibsen in 2006
- James Joyce
- The James Joyce Centre
- www.jamesjoyce.ie
- Take a virtual visit to the James Joyce Centre in Dublin
- Check out the links about Joyce and Exhibitions
- James Joyce: The Brazen Head
- www.themodernword.com/joyce
- Visit this large site about Joyce and his works
- Franz Kafka
- The Kafka Project
- www.kafka.org
- Most offerings on this site are in English
- Franz Kafka: Das Schloss
- www.themodernword.com/kafka/index.html
- Find a wealth of information here by using the navigation bar on the left side of the page
- John Keats
- John Keats Romantic Poet
- www.etsu.edu/english/muse/musepage.htm
- Short bio, 3 poems, and good links
- The Life and Work of John Keats
- http://englishhistory.net/keats/contents.html
- Offers bios, images, works and criticism
- Ken Kesey
- Intrepid Trips
- www.intrepidtrips.com
- Road trips, works, info about Kesey and more
- Also visit Kez-z Productions at www.key-z.com for additional information
- Be warned - these sites are totally psychedelic
- Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
- www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/kesey.html
- Try this for a less random, scholarly approach
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Jamaica Kincaid
- www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Kincaid.html
- Offers biographical information, themes, and good links
- Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings
- www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/09/snell.html
- Read an interview of Kincaid from Mother Jones Magazine
- National Public Radio: Talk of the Nation
- www.npr.org/ramarchives/ne7m0401.ram
- Listen to a roundtable talk with several authors from the Caribean including Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Enrique Fernandez
- Also from NPR: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1625888
- Rudyard Kipling
- The Kipling Society
- www.kipling.org.uk
- Offers a wealth of information about Kipling and his works
- NoblePrize.org: Rudyard Kipling
- http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1907/kipling-bio.html
- Offers biographical information, links, his presentation from the Noble Prize for literature in 1907, and more
- Doris Lessing
- BBC: Doris Lessing
- www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/lessingd1.shtml
- Four audio clips interviews with Lessing
- Also from BBC www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/lessing_life.shtml
- Doris Lessing: A Retrospective
- www.dorislessing.org
- Offers biographical information, information on her works and more
- Billy Letts
- Billy Letts Book, Where the Heart Is
- www.oprah.com/article/oprahsbookclub/pastselections/obc_19981207_review
- Notes from Oprah Winfrey on Billy Letts and the above book
- Denise Levertov
- Denise Levertov
- www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/386/levertov.htm
- Offers links to her poems, obituary, interviews, and papers by and about her and her works
- Jack London
- The Jack London Collection
- http://london.sonoma.edu
- A big site including a bio, his writings, photos, and more
- The Jack London International
- www.jack-london.org
- Click on the English link to enter this site
- Follow the links on the left side of the page
- The World of Jack London
- www.jacklondons.net/index.html
- A wealth of information
- Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Elizabeth A. Lynn
- www.locusmag.com/1997/Issues/10/Lynn.html
- An interview with Lynn
- Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield: Short Story Moderniser
- www.nzedge.com/heroes/mansfield.html
- This page from New Zealand offers information about Mansfield works and life
- Katherine Mansfield House
- www.katherinemansfield.com
- Learn more about Mansfield and her house, read about her works in the context of her life
- New Zealand Writers: Katherine Mansfield
- www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/mansfieldk.html
- Contains biographical Information
- Stephanie Meyer
- StephanieMeyer.com
- www.stepheniemeyer.com
- The official Stephanie Meyer homepage
- Toni Morrison
- Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
- www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
- Includes biographical information, a bibliography, links, interviews, her works and more
- Click on the little leafy looking things to the left of the words
- Nobileprize.org: Toni Morrison
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html
- Noble prize page about Morrison
- Walter Dean Myers
- Teen Reads: Walter Dean Myers
- www.walterdeanmyers.net
- Offers a short bio, about writing in his own words, and an interview
- Walter Dean Myers
- www.walterdeanmyers.net
- Offers a biography, bibliography and contact information
- Joan Lowrey Nixon
- Mystery Writing with Joan Lowrey Nixon
- teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/index.htm
- Offers tips on how to write a mystery from Nixon as well as biographical inforamtion
- Joan Lowrey Nixon: Obituary
- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/obituaries/07NIXO.html?ex=1121400000&en=9010130a335d3330&ei=5070
- Obituary from the New York Times
- Tillie Olsen
- Tillie Olsen
- http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm
- Offers a short biographical section, criticism, and bibliography and awards
- Christopher Paolini
- Eragon, Book One
- www.alagaesia.com/index.php
- Learn about Eragon, Eldest , Brisingr and the author of these stories - Christopher Paolini
- James Patterson
- James Patterson: Site Map
- www.jamespatterson.com/index2.html
- Offer bio, interview, info on works and more
- The Official James Patterson Site
- James Patterson
- www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-patterson-james.asp
- Explore these interviews with Patterson
- Gary Paulsen
- Gary Paulsen
- www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen
- Iditarod Journal, Biographical information, Survival Tips and more
- Official Website
- Author Profile: Gary Paulsen
- www.trelease-on-reading.com/paulsen.html
- An excerpt from Trelease's book Read All About It!
- Puts his books in the context of his life
- Gary Paulsen: A Writer of his Time
- scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall94/Schmitz.html
- A scholarly view of this writings from The Alan Review (1994)
- Sylvia Plath
- A Celebration, This Is
- www.sylviaplath.info
- Offers info on her life and works
- Lots of cool photos too
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Museum
- www.poemuseum.org
- Learn about his life, read some of his works, take a quiz about Poe
- The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
- www.eapoe.org
- Not fancy, but you will find a lot of information here
- The Raven Society
- www.uvaravensociety.com
- The Raven Society is an Honor Society at the University of Virginia
- Visit this site to learn more about Poe as a student - see the links on the bottom right side of the page
- Philip Pullman
- Philip Pullman
- www.philip-pullman.com
- Read about Pullman, his works, awards and more
- Official Site
- Philip Pullman Reaches the Garden
- www.powells.com/authors/pullman.html
- Read an interview with Pullman from 2000
- Anne Rice
- Anne Rice
- www.annerice.com
- Visit the Official Anne Rice site
- View her thought on writing, find out what she has to say about writing and about what she has written
- J. K. Rowling
- J. K. Rowling
- www.jkrowling.com
- Check out Rowling's official site
- Harry Potter
- harrypotter.warnerbros.com
- Check out the movie site
- Mugglenet
- www.mugglenet.com
- A teen-run website
- This doesn't contain the utmost in authority, but is the place to go to hear the latest in rumors and get other teen's feelings and scoop on the Harry Potter craze
- Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss National Memorial Square
- catinthehat.org
- Visit this park marked with sculptures of Seuss' works
- Contains a bio and informationon the park
- Dr. Seuss Went to War
- orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic
- Offers a number of Political Cartoons created by Dr. Seuss
- Seussville
- www.seussville.com
- Contains games, info on books, bio and more (From Random House)
- A great site to share with younger brothers or sisters
- Nicholas Sparks
- The Official Nicholas Sparks Web Site
- www.nicholassparks.com
- Information on Sparks works and about writing
- Walt Whitman
- The Walt Whitman Archive
- www.whitmanarchive.org
- Find biographical info, works, images of manuscripts, photos and more
- Paul Zindel
- The Official Website of Paul Zindel
- www.paulzindel.com
- Offers biographical information, photos, interviews, teacher information and more
- This site has great depth!
Updated July 26, 2008
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