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| American Authors on the Web | Chronological listing (by author birth year) of links to sites with information about and texts of authors. Also extensive links to American literature sites. |
| Author Guides | Louisiana State University. Contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers. |
| Canadian Authors | National Library of Canada. Bibliography, essays, manuscripts, journals, links, etc.. |
| A Celebration of Women Writers | Mary Mark Ockerbloom. Browse by author, century, or by country. |
| Center for Book Culture | Lengthy interviews with authors and casebooks on individual novels, including essays, bibliographies, notes on the novel's critical reception, etc. |
| Great Literature Online | The Brothers Heuss. Full text of works by Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Sherwood Anderson, Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Bret Harte, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman. |
| Luminarium | Aniina Jokinen. Biographical information, full text of works, critical articles, links, etc., for over thirty authors of Middle English, Renaissance, and 17th century literature. |
| Maine Writers Index | About 150 Maine writers listed, with biographical and bibliographical information as well as links to other sites, if available. Searchable and also has material on non-Maine authors and other literature, reading, writing, and language resources. |
| Mississippi Writers | University of Mississippi. Entries for over sixty authors, including William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, John Grisham, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams. Entries contain biographical and bibliographical information, photographs, and links to related Web sites. Search by author, title, genre, dates, or the place in Mississippi associated with the writer. There is also a timeline, literary news, and lists of Mississippi periodicals and publishers. |
| Native American Authors Online | Karen Strom. Alphabetical and tribal listings of authors, calendar of author's readings and appearances, book reviews, early 20th century authors, traditional storytelling, related sites. |
| The 19th Century American Women Writers Web | University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Book information, links, etc. |
| Paris Review | Interviews with authors. |
| Storytellers: Native American Authors Online | Karen Strom Links to authors' websites, book reviews, readings calendar, etc. |
| Voices from the Gap | University of Minnesota. Information on the lives and works of women writers of color with links to related sites. |
| Wired for Books | Ohio University Telecommunications Center. A project to encode the Don Swaim collection of author interviews from his New York radio program. Interviews are from the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s and include mainly American authors, such as Allen Ginsberg, Louis L'Amour, Joseph Heller, and William Styron. There are also video clips of the interviews and of celebrities and authors reading poetry and literature. Requires RealAudio and RealVideo. Searchable. |
| Women Writers Resource Project | Emory University. Edited and unedited texts by 17th-19th century women writing in English. |
| Jane Austen | Republic of Pemberly. Vast resource including full text material, biographical information, etc. |
| Natalie Clifford Barney | Biography, bibliographic information, images, links, etc. |
| Baudelaire Database | Vanderbilt University. Search database for articles in English and French. |
| L. Frank Baum | W.R. Wright. Chronological biography, bibliography of books, songs, and short stories. It includes works under various pen names and works by others about Baum and Oz. Information about characters, places, and objects in the stories. |
| The Samuel Beckett Endpage | University of California, Santa Barbara. A multiple resource site for all those interested in the life and works of Samuel Beckett. |
| Samuel Beckett On-line Resources and Links Page | Annotated. |
| William Blake Archive | University of Virginia. Dedicated to Blake's poetry and artwork. |
| Bronte Info | Bronte Parsonage Museum and the Bronte Society. Information about the Bronte, their writings, and their times. Links. |
| Robert Burns | Maurice Lindsay's The Burns Encyclopedia, which serves as a comprehensive handbook of the life and work. Over one hundred full-text songs and poems, a timeline of Burns' life, a list of ancestors and descendants, a discussion area, etc. |
| William Burroughs | Big Table Media. Concordance to Naked Lunch, a Primer offering information on the author's life and work, and photographs of the William S. Burroughs memorial service program. Also contains information on subscribing to The Subterraneans mailing list, devoted to "the study of the lives and works of writers of the Beat Generation." |
| Lewis Carroll Homepage | Joel M. Birenbaum. Includes online texts, reference material, graphics, etc. |
| Dave Neal. Illustrations from artists such as Arthur Rackham, Gwynedd Hudson, and Bessie Pease Gutmann, but (not John Tenniel's). |