AUTHORS , A to Z

See " WHERE ELSE TO LOOK " if you can't find your author in the list below, or would like more information. Check also the related subject LITERATURE & BOOKS for more suggestions.


Adams, Doug

So long, and thanks for all the books http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1326695.stm


Alcott, Louisa May

AlcottWeb.com http://www.louisamayalcott.org/


Angelou, Maya

Maya Angelou http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/angelou_maya.html


Auden, W.H.

Auden Society Home Page http://www.audensociety.org/

(Includes criticism and audio interviews and readings of Auden's poetry.)


Austen, Jane

Jane Austen http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/austen/austenov.html


Beckett, Samuel

The Samuel Beckett On-line Resources and Links Page http://www.samuel-beckett.net


Beowulf (Anonymous Author)

Beowulf http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html

(Text, history, characters, and outstanding links to more material.)


Brown, Dan

Dan Brown http://www.danbrown.com/


Byron

The Life and Works of Lord Byron http://englishhistory.net/byron.html


Cather, Willa

Willa Cather http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/cather.htm

(Biography of Cather, along with recommended Internet sites on Cather.)


Chaucer, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Chaucer http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm


Chopin, Kate

Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

http://www.wwnorton.com/litweb/workshops/fiction/chopin1.asp

(Focuses on a close reading of one short story, and then provides a biography and excellent links, including criticism, to her larger work.)


Conrad, Joseph

Joseph Conrad http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/conradov.html


Crane, Stephen

Stephen Crane Society http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/index.html


Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html

The Dickens Project http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html

The Charles Dickens Museum-- Virtual Tour http://www.dickensmuseum.com/vtour/

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/

The Dickens Page http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/%7Ematsuoka/Dickens.html

(Up-to-date links maintained by students of Nagoya University, Japan.).

Discovering Dickens http://dickens.stanford.edu/archive/intro.html

(Download the serial facsimiles, and find historical and biographical context for three of Dickens's novels: Great Expectations , Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities .)


Dickinson, Emily

The Emily Dickinson International Society http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html


Doyle, Arthur Conan

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective http://221bakerstreet.org/


Ellison, Ralph

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html


Emerson, Ralph Waldo

American Transcendentalism Web: Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/

Emerson & Thoreau: Nature & Walden http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/emerson.asp


Faulkner, William

William Faulkner on the Web http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html


Fitzgerald, F. Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/

Authors on Fitzgerald http://access.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/9609_fitzgerald/fitzauthors.htm

(From Minnesota Public Radio, on the 100th birthday of Fitzgerald.)


Forster, E.M.

Aspects of E.M. Forster http://emforster.de/


Frank, Anne

Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/

(From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .)


Frost, Robert

Robert Frost http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192

( An overview of the life and work, selected poems, and links to other web sites on Frost .)

Robert Frost (1874-1963 ) http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/frost.htm

A Guide to Literary Criticism on the Internet for Robert Frost http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Frost.htm


Gaiman, Neil

Neil Gaiman http://www.neilgaiman.com/


Garcia Márquez, Gabriel

Gabriel Jose Garcia Márquez http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html


Grisham, John

John Grisham http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gri0pro-1


Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne: Bicentennial Exhibition at the Phillips Library http://www.pem.org/library/hawthorne/

Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html


Hemingway, Ernest

A Hemingway Retrospective http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/index.html

(CNN's centennial assessment of Hemingway.)


Henry, O. (Porter, William Sydney)

The O. Henry Page http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/lit/ohen.html


Hurston, Zora Neale

Zora Neale Hurston http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hurston_zora_neale.html


Huxley, Aldous

Aldous Huxley http://somaweb.org/


Irving , Washington

Perspectives in American Literature: Washington Irving http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/irving.html


James, Henry

The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/


Jewett, Sarah Orne

Sarah Orne Jewett http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/jewett1.htm


Jonson, Ben

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) http://www. luminarium .org/sevenlit/jonson/


Lee, Harper

(Nell) Harper Lee http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm


McCourt, Frank

Frank McCourt http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mcc1pro-1


Melville, Herman

Herman Melville http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/melville.htm


Miller, Arthur

The Crucible Project http://www.curriculumunits.com/crucible/main3.htm

The Salem Witch Trials http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm

(A useful collection of links and other information related to Miller's The Crucible.)

Salem Witch Trials http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/


Naipaul, V. S

The Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001 http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2001/index.html

V.S. Naipaul http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/naipaul/naipaulov.html

Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul (1932-) http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vnaipaul.htm


O'Brien, Tim

Tim O'Brien http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/tobrien.htm


Poe, Edgar Allen

The Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore http://www.eapoe.org/

Early Nineteenth Century: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/poe.html


Potok, Chaim

Chaim Potok http://www.lasierra.edu/~ballen/potok/


Salinger, J.D.

The Catcher in the Rye http://www.curriculumunits.com/catcherweb/index.html


Shakespeare, William.

Absolute Shakespeare http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

This site describes itself as " the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre." Includes texts of the plays, study guides (summaries of the plays) and some excellent critical essays of the major plays by Coleridge and Hazlitt. Includes trivia, a glossary of words used in the plays, famous quotations, a discussion of the authorship question and much more.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

An outstanding introduction to all things Shakespeare on the Internet.

The Shakespeare Mystery: Who, In Fact, Was He? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/index.html

On the authorship of the plays, from PBS's Frontline.

Encyclopedia Britannica Presents Shakespeare http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html

Shakespeare's Globe http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/navigation/frameset.htm

Visit the "Site Map" and select "Online Reference Library" under "Resources for Students." At the "Site Map" under "Distance Learning," there is a "virtual tour" of the rebuilt Globe.

Internet Shakespeare Editions http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html

Utah Shakespearean Festival: Educational Resources http://www.bard.org/Education/resources.html

Brief synopsis, identification of characters, and thematic discussion of most of the plays. From the Utah Shakespeare Festival.


Singer, Isaac Bashevis

The Library of America Presents Isaac Bashevis Singer http://www.ibsinger100.org/


Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/


Tan, Amy

Amy Tan http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html


Thoreau, Henry David

American Transcendentalism Web: Henry David Thoreau http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/

Emerson & Thoreau: Nature & Walden http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/emerson.asp


Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Tolkien Archives: A Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/

Articles published in the New York Times about Tolkien. Reviews of his works and interviews are included, along with the NYT obituary.


Twain, Mark

Mark Twain in His Times http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html


Wharton, Edith

The Edith Wharton Society http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org


WHERE ELSE TO LOOK FOR AUTHOR INFORMATION

  1. Academy of American Poets: Find a Poet
    http://www.poets.org/
  2. American Writers
    http://www.americanwriters.org/
  3. American Authors on the Web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
  4. Authors' Calendar www.kirjasto.sci.fi/indeksi.htm
  5. English Literature on the Web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html Includes links for American, British and Irish Authors.
  6. Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism
    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
  7. LiterayHistory.com http://www.literaryhistory.com
  8. Literary Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
  9. Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/ ****Outstanding source at the college level: type the author's name in the search box.


Whitman, Walt

The Walt Whitman Archive http://www.whitmanarchive.org/


Wiesel, Elie

Elie Wiesel http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0int-1

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