Specific Authors, Playwrights, & Poets

Updated July 21, 2003

in alphabetical order
BIOGRAPHIES, REFERENCES, & COMPLETE TEXTS

GENERAL SITES WITH AUTHOR INFO
Great Books Index by Author 
  Writers by Country 
  Literary Traveler Index of Writers 
  American Authors 
  American Writers 
  Welcome to Everything English - research authors and their works 
  Voices From the Gaps: Writers by Name 
  Voices From the Gaps: Writers by Significant Dates 
  Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color 
  A Celebration of Women Writers 
  Southern Literature: Women Writers 
  Domestic Goddesses: AKA Scribbling Women
  Creative Quotations for Creative Thinking 

A
Aesop's Fables
Louisa May Alcott
Akhmatova Page
ANGELOU, MAYA
W. H. Auden - The W. H. Auden Society
Jane Austen Info Page - Jane Austen's Writings, Republic of Pemberley, Notes on Education, Marriage, Status, Marriage and the Alternatives - The Status of Women
Isaac Azimov - Isaac Asimov Home Page

B
Honore de Balzac
  L. Frank Baum, the Royal Historian of Oz - Wizard of Oz - Frequently Asked Questions, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory, L Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism, Oz Populism Theory - The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Ambrose Bierce Page - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" - one of my favorite(and very spooky) short stories!
     The William Blake Page
Boccaccio and Decameron Guide - The Decameron Web 
Novels by the Brontë Sisters - Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Branwell "The Forgotten" Brontë 
    Rupert Brooke and his WarSonnets
   Pearl S. Buck 
Burns Country - the official Robert Burns site - Robert Burns - Poems and Songs, Robert Burns: My Supper With Rabbie
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Land That Time Forgot
     Lord Byron: a comprehensive study of his life and work - George Gordon, Lord Byron

C
truman capote: a black + white tribute
Lewis Carroll - Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site,  LEWIS CARROLL Home Page, Victorian Hunger and Malnutrition in Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What Was Found There
  Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400) - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ~ presented by ELF, The Electronic Canterbury Tales, Chaucer MetaPage, The General Prologue - An Electronic Edition, The Canterbury Tales, ClassicNotes: Canterbury Tales General Prologue, Essential Chaucer: Essential Chaucer: Pilgrimage, Additional sources and information on "The Canterbury Tales", Baragona's Chaucer Home Page, Geoffrey Chaucer: Additional Sources, Canterbury Tales Project - Annotated Bibliography for Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale." - The Book of the Duchess: An Elegy for the Living?
ANTON TCHEKHOF(CHEKOV) - Anton Chekhov: The Definitive Site 
  Joseph Conrad: from Heart of Darkness
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) - James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers (1823) 

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Digital Dante - Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Dante's Medieval Hell
  Daniel 'The True-Born Englishman' Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, The San Antonio College LitWeb Daniel Defoe Page 
    Rene Descartes - Great Books Index - Descartes 
  Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle - Darwin and Evolution
The Dickens Page - Charles Dickens on Schools, George Valsamis' David Copperfield Site,  Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Dicken's London 
DICKINSON, EMILY
   John Donne 
   Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyle - Literary works - Bloomington by Gaslight Sherlock Holmes in the Lilly Library IU Lilly Library 
  Alexandre Dumas père - Legends - Swashbucklers and Fops - Alexandre Dumas Père, FireBlade Coffeehouse: Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers(Entire Text) - One of my TOP 10 FAVORITE books!(and I'm a girl!!!), The History of the Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Man in the Iron Mask: The Death of D’Artagnan 

E
What the Thunder Said: T.S. Eliot

F
William Faulkner on the Web - Introduction to Faulkner on the Web, Faulkner Glossary, The Sound and the Fury: A Hypertext Edition, The Sound and the Fury: COMMENTARY  
  Henry Fielding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Ian Fleming and the World of James Bond 
  Robert Frost - A Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost 

G
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight: Resources
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Yellow Wallpaper site
Allen Ginsberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Emma Goldman Papers

H
Joel Chandler Harris
THE WORLD OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works - Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Thomas Hobbes - Thomas Hobbes: De Cive(The Citizen): Contents
ALDOUS HUXLEY

J
Samuel Johnson - Lynch, A Guide to Samuel Johnson

K
John Keats - John Keats: a comprehensive study of his life and work
Jack Kerouac
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden

L
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) | English Soldier and Author - more can be found Lawrence on my World War I page.
Harper Lee - The Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide
John Locke (1632-1704), The Philosopher of Freedom - John Locke's Letter on toleration, The Works of John Locke, Great Books Index - John Locke
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Paul Revere's Ride"

M
Machiavelli - The Prince - Digital Texts - The Prince
  Herman Melville's Billy Budd Central - The Confidence-Man Hypertext, by Herman Melville 
James A. Michener
John Stuart Mill- The Subjection of Women - ON LIBERTY by John Stuart Mill - John Stuart Mill - The Principles of Political Economy
Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact & Fiction
A.A. MILNE and Pooh: HEATHER BEARS POOHRIFFIC WEBRING, Welcome to Pooh's Corner
John Milton - The John Milton Home Page
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Green Gables Encyclopedia Page

N
Frank Norris

O
Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est, The War Poems & Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive - "Dulce Et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen - The Wilfred Owen Association - Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est - best known poem of the First World War 

P
Dorothy Parker's New York
BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK
Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 - The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Edgar Allan Poe - The Work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), USA: Humor of Edgar Allan Poe, The Poe Perplex, Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site Home Page
The Pushkin Page

S
Carl Sandburg Website - Carl Sandburg's Connemara  Literary Traveler
J.D. Salinger and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Dr. Seuss - Dr. Seuss's Seussville!
SHAKESPEARE - tons of info in the Theatre/Drama section on my main Literature and Drama page.
Mary Shelley Links - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, Frankenstein : The Modern Prometheus - Chatpters, Frankenstein: Table of Contents, Frankenstein Exhibit Home Page, The Frankenstein Page, A Frankenstein Study: Anatomy of a Story
Shel Silverstein WWW Links
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
Gertrude Stein Online - The World of Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck - Center for Steinbeck Studies, Welcome to the National Steinbeck Center, Great Quotations By John Steinbeck , Creative Quotations from John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Bram Stoker
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Home Page

T
Alfred Lord Tennyson Biography
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry D. Thoreau: Main Page
The Tolkien Network - TheTolkien Archives, TheTolkien Monster Encyclopedia, The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page, A Tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Timeline, Literature: TheHobbit Banquet
Did you know? Samuel Clemens was not the only writer to use the pen-name ' Mark Twain '. It was used several years earlier by Isiah Sellers. Both men were river pilots on the Mississippi, where ' Mark Twain ' was a common technical term.
Mark Twain in His Times - PBS - Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns, Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Contemporary Political Cartoons, Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad, Mark Twain, What is Man? And Other Essays of Mark Twain, Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer, Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic Literature, PBS - Mark Twain: Classroom Activities, Mark Twain Postcards

V
Jules Verne
Voltaire: Personification of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Great Books Index - Voltaire
Kurt Vonnegut

W
H G Wells - War Of The Worlds invasion: The complete War Of The Worlds website 
Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places
Walt Whitman Home Page
Oscar Wilde - Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces, "TheGhost of Oscar Wilde" 
Virginia Woolf
Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives (Internet Resources), Mary Wollstonecraft Links, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Y
William Butler Yeats

PULITZER AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
The Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Literature
PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive


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