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Author Lists on the Internet

Author Lists on the Internet

1. Internet Public Library:  Online Literary Criticism Collection
   http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
2. Project Gutenberg:  Fine Literature Digitally Republished
   http://www.gutenberg.net/
   This provides access to full-text editions of literature which have been scanned onto the web. Most texts are copyright expired which means that they will be dated. Beware also of VERY LARGE files which may take hours to load (Think Moby Dick for instance...).
3. Literature Awards Lists 
   http://www.powells.com/prizes/prizes.html
   This site is designed to sell books, but also links to prize and award winners in literature.  Find the lists of Booker Prize, National Book Award, Nobel Prize for Literature, and Pulitzer Prize winners to name but a few.  Remember that retrieved book lists will be only those available for sale...this is a commercial site after all.
4. Literature Resources (Humanities Library at MIT)
   http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/Literature/index1.html
   This contains links to "collections devoted to specific authors or works" as well as full-text, electronic journals, etc.

American Literature on the Web

http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature  (Paul P. Reuben)

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML

American Literature  (Voice of the Shuttle)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2739

Electronic Text Center:  The Modern English Collection

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

This site is not limited to American authors.  Use this page to search by author or area of interest for primary texts.  You will not find criticism here.

Early American Fiction (1789 - 1875)

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/

Scroll down on this page to find a "publically-accessible subset" for non-UVA students.

Truman Capote (Online Literary Criticism Collection)

This page includes brief biographical information .

Willa Cather  (Gustavus Adolphus College)

This page includes biographical information as well as links to other Cather sources.

William Faulkner (John B. Padgett, University of Mississippi)

Find here commentaries, plot summaries, a biographical timeline, information about his adopted hometown, and links to other web sites.  Scholarly information can be located at the bottom of the page, under the heading: "Faulkner Resources".

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Eric Eldred)

Find biographical information as well as a chronology, bibliography, criticism, and full-text works
online. Most interesting about this site are the links to museums and collections of his work, to letters from Melville, and to commentary on Hawthorne's contributions to art, film, politics, television, and urban planning!

The Hemingway Resource Center  (The Lost Generation Bookstore)

Here find a few interesting links and articles about the Ernest Hemingway and his work.  Be aware that it works best in Internet Explorer and IS sponsored by a book seller.

Zora Neal Hurston

Although the compiler of this page is difficult to identify, the page itself contains interesting information, if a bit out of order. Scroll beyond the photograph links to get to a bibliography and chronology. Essays must be carefully evaluated as they appear to vary greatly in quality.

Henry James  (Richard D. Hathaway, Professor of English, SUNY New Paltz)

This guide to web sites includes links to many works in full text, reviews, discussion groups, etc. The Online Calendar website from the University of Nebraska provides access to a database of all known letters written by Henry James and brief biographical information on the recipients of these letters.

Ursula K. Le Guin (Compiled by Laura M. Quilter from the University of Illinois at Chicago)

Links to bibliographies, biographical information and guides to online and print interviews, reviews and critical studies can be found here.

The Life and Works of Herman Melville (A page sponsored by MultiVerse).

This page includes biographical sources, electronic full-text sites, related sites, and well documented information about the people responsible for these pages.

Toni Morrison (Anniina Jokinen)

http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm

Anniina's page on this author is excellent in that it provides scholarly articles and commentary on seven of her novels as well as biographical material.  Interviews and other sources are also available here.

Flannery O'Connor  (California State University)

A brief biography and a selected bibliography

Thomas Pynchon (Penny Padgett, San Narciso College)

This page provides a reasonable biography, a bibliography of works both by and about this novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as both graphical and text based web versions of his work.

Alice Walker (Anniina Jokinen)

Critical essays, links to biographical sources, and news tidbits about this contemporary novelist and poet form the base for this interesting site.

Maya Angelou    (Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color)

This page includes a brief biography with limited criticism, a selected bibliography, as well as citations to several Gale Series you will find in the Ely Library.  For a list of literary criticism, see also: Maya Angelou: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism, by Jay Brandes:

William S. Burroughs (California State University)

A member of the Beat Generation, this site links to a biography. It also includes a list of his books and a list of works about the author and his works.

Hart Crane (1899-1932) (American Literature Professor, Kobe University, Japan)

Links to brief biographical notes and a bibliography of critical sources will be found here, as well as some criticism on The Bridge.

Emily Dickinson (Modern American Poetry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

This site contains two brief biographies, many criticism of her work, and a few links to other sites. Her complete poems can be read on Bartleby.com.

T. S. Eliot: What the Thunder Said (Compiled by Raymond Camden)

This excellent page has links to a timeline, works of Eliot, and resources that include an online concordance, audio files, critical essays, and lecture notes from UVA. For a good link compiled by a Japanese professor which includes a biographical sketch and a bibliography of critical sources, try Eiichi Hishikawa's T.S. Eliot Site

The Robert Frost Web Page   (Danny Clayton and Jay & Sue D Michalowski)

Here find biographical, interviews, full-text poems, a "detailed" bibliography of and about his work, recordings of Frost himself, and links to other Web sources.

Allen Ginsberg (Modern American Poetry from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

This site contains a two biographies, criticisms, ingerviews, photos, poems. A bibliography of works about Ginsberg and his writing is rather extensive and worth checking out. Use the Ely Library Catalog to locate materials at Westfield State College.

Nikki Giovanni  (Voices from the Gaps - University of Minnesota)

This page has a brief biography, bibliographies of Giovanni's works and of works about her writing (no full-text). Ms. Giovanni is currently writing and teaching at Virginia Tech.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Auburn University)

This page provides a biography written by an undergraduate at the University of Washington as well as a few links to online texts of Longfellow.

The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

Biographical information, Whitman's works, and reviews of his works from the Cambridge University Press, are but a few of the interesting materials linked to from this page.

Joyce Carol Oates (University of San Francisco)

This homepage contains information on works, a biography, photos, theatre productions, forthcoming publications, and a searchable list of reviews/critical sources about this prolific American author and her work. Use the Ely Library Catalog to locate some of these materials in Ely Library.

Edgar Allan Poe (Perspectives on American Literature from the California State University)

This site contains numerous bibliographies. Some of the works listed may be found in the Ely Library catalog. For another selection of web sources, refer to A Poe Webliography by Heyward Ehrlich (Rutgars University).

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) (American Literature Professor, Kobe University, Japan)

This site contains a thoroughly cited biographical timeline, a good bibliography of critical sources, library collections, and information on a listserv devoted to this author.

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom)

This page contains biographical information, electronic texts of Whitman's work, and critical essays from a Cambridge University Press publication (Hint--scholarly!).

William Carlos Williams (Modern American Poetry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

A biography and criticisms of Williams' life and work.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (American Literature Professor, Kobe University, Japan)

Here find a photograph, an encyclopedia article on this poet (notice the citation), a list of critical works about Yeats, as well as a list of Yeats web links.

Thornton Wilder Society

Information about this author, known best for his play "Our Town", is presented through current reviews of theatre productions, a biography, a list of his works, and if you scroll down this first page, a bibliography of novels, plays, and books about Wilder which you can look up in our library.

For more playwrights, use the CDE Bibliographies (German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English), which lead to scholarly sources on many dramatists. These are not full text materials--return to the Ely Library Home Page at http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/ to use the Ely Library Catalog to locate books or refer to the Full Text Periodicals Title List to locate journal titles listed.

The Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

This site contains brief but well researched information about British social, political and economic history.  Find links from the Victorian Web Home Page to Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science, etc.

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

For works no longer copyrighted, find scholarly, full-text editions put up by the University of Virginia.

Electronic Text Center:  The Modern English Collection

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

This site is not limited to British Authors.  Use this page to search by author or area of interest for primary texts.  You will not find criticism here.

Authors, Works, Projects (Modern British)   (Works best in Internet Explorer)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=322

Find here an alphabetical listing of British authors with links to other sources and to some full-text.  Created by Voice of the Shuttle.  See also the Victorian Section: [http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2751]

Authors, Works, Projects (Contemporary British) (Works best in Internet Explorer)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=320

Jane Austen Info Page   (Henry Churchyard)

This link points to sites of widely varying quality and subject focus.

Samuel T. Coleridge   (Univ. of Virginia)

This site is full of good, solid, scholarly material on Coleridge. Here you will find for example, literary criticism, political commentary, a time line, and citations to recommended readings in book form. Be patient as it loads.

Henry Fielding   (San Antonio College)

A list of this author's major works as well as links to "Study Notes on Tom Jones" and a short biographical sketch are available here.   For another biographical account and more detail, see Fielding and Smollett from  Ward & Trent, et al. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907–21; New York: Bartleby.com, 2000 (www.bartleby.com/cambridge/).

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)   (Bowling Green State University)

Faculty member Bruce Edwards' site dedicated to studying and scholarship of C.S. Lewis.

Evelyn Waugh   (Petri Liukkonen)

This lengthy biography includes Further Readings and a selected bibliography of this author's works.

Virginia Woolf (Internet Public Library)

This site contains a bibliography and biographical resources.

The William Blake Page  (Compiled by Richard Record & Gail Gastfield)

Links are provided along with a short biography.  For more of Blake's work, see the Blake Digital Text Project.

Lewis Carroll  (1832-1898) (George Landow, Victorian Web)

This web site includes links to biographical information, scholarly criticism of Carroll's works, political, religious and philosophical contexts, themes, symbolism, etc.

The Samuel T. Coleridge Archive  (Univ. of Virginia)

This site is full of good, solid, scholarly material on Coleridge. Here you will find for example, literary criticism, political commentary, a time line, and citations to recommended readings in book form.

The Milton-L Home Page  (Kevin J. T. Creamer, Univ. of Richmond)

This thorough page contains well-annotated links to bibliographies, texts, biographies, images, listservs, etc. It may take time to load on slower computers.

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (University of Virginia)

This site is a "structured database holding digitized images of Rossetti's works in their original documentary forms" and provides a short biography of the poet-artist.

Dylan Thomas  (The Biography Project)

This site includes a biography and some criticism of his work.  Scroll down to find links to "Biographical, Critical and otherwise analytical works" about Dylan Thomas.

Marlowe, Christopher (1564- 1593)  (Site copyright ©1996-2003 Anniina Jokinen.)

Collections of critical essays from a mixture of scholarly sources as well as from student papers is available here.  Find also biographical information on Marlowe and a list of his works.  Links to other sources can also be found.  See also The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe put together by Hilary Binda from Tufts University (the Perseus Project)

Shakespeare and the Internet  (Compiled by Terry A. Gray, Palomar Community College)

This is an annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.  Herein find links to biography, criticism, theatre, the Renaissance, and more.  For critical essays on the author and his works, try Criticism from the same source.  For another source of Shakespeare criticism and literature guides, see Theatre Central's Shakespeare: Literature.

For more information, see The Shakespeare Authorship Page  and Absolute Shakespeare.

Tom Stoppard (CDE)

Here find lists of sources including Interviews, General Overviews, On Individual Plays, and On Radio Plays.

For more playwrights, use the CDE Bibliographies (German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English), which lead to scholarly sources on many dramatists. These are not full text materials--you must use the Ely Library Catalog to locate books or refer to the List of Full Text Periodicals to locate journal titles listed.

Margaret Atwood Information Site   (This site has actually been compiled by Ms. Atwood and her assistant)

To enter this site, scroll to the bottom of this screen to click on the site name.  Read the copyright.  There is a lot of information here--including biography, annecdote, and advice to begining writers directly from this Canadian author.

James Joyce Resource Center  (Edward J. Maloney and David F. Fanning, Ohio State University)

This site has a Joyce timeline, a bibliogrpahy of his works, a bibliography of books on Joyce, and a nice thematic list of criticisms pertianing to this challenging Irish author.

Doris Lessing (Jan Hanford)

This site contains a thorough biography, bibliograhy of works, interviews, and photo images about this author from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). There are no links to critical sources but many to her essays and stories.

See Also:  Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English

Organized by country, this site offers geographical and historical background for each country and essays on each author.  Best represented at this point are writers from Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean.  The site is growing slowly and will soon include authors of Singapore, India, New Zeland, and Canada.

Earle Birney (Will Garrett-Petts, Canadian Literature Archive Project)

This Canadian poet is presented through a brief biography, bibliography, criticism, and can be read either in English or in French. The manuscript sample is interesting as well.

Robert Burns

This Scottish poet was honored on the bicentenial of his death. Pages include biography, chronology, and some online texts.

W. B. Yeats: Yeats Society Sligo

On this site you can find information on Yeats' career, his poetry, drama, influences, and Nobel Prize information as well as links to other Yeats and County Sligo materials.  See also Responsibilities and Other Poems , The Wind Among the Reeds, and The Wild Swans at Cool (Project Bartleby) for links to works by this Irish poet which are available online.

The Samuel Beckett Online Resources & Links Page (Charles Sturt University)

This page provides links to pages on this Irish-born, French playwright, novelist, and poet who translated his own works. Find articles (some restricted, but some available to all).

George Bernard Shaw (Artslynx Index)

Find here links to sites about his plays, biography, electronic texts, scholarship and quotations.

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