AUTHORS    The links on this page to specific authors are arranged alphabetically.                                                 For general literature sites, click on the links below.

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GENERAL LINKS TO AUTHORS  

Voices from the Gaps - Women Writers of Color - links to pages on women writers 
http://english.cla.umn.edu/lkd/vfg/authorname

Outline of American Literature - Authors - information and essays on major and minor American authors
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

Heath Anthology of American Lliterature - guide - an incredibly thorough list of American writers of every genre by period, linked to pages intended for teachers discussing issues and themes in each writer's work. If you cannot find a minor American writer anywhere else on the web, you should check here
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/

Contemporary American Authors - links to pages of more than 150 contemporary authors
http://authors.miningco.com/msubmenu01.htm?pid=2734&cob=home

LINKS TO INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z

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(Edward) Abbey's Web - comprehensive site with biography, bibiography, commentary, even a quotation search engine
http://www.utsidan.se/abbey/abbey.html

Kobo Abe - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm

Chinua Achebe - terrific overview of Achebe's work with contextual background  
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html

Chinua Achebe - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm

Chinua Achebe - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/achebe/achbiog.shtml

Chinua Achebe
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Achebe/Author.html

Anna Akhmatova - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/akhmatova/akhbiog.shtml

Edward Albee - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/albee.html

Louisa May Alcott Web - comprehensive Alcott page, with complete biographical and critical sources, with FAQ, links, and photos.     
http://www.alcottweb.com

Louisa May Alcott: The Mask of Louisa May Alcott - essay on her feminist importance      http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tovo/auto/fall/research/martin.html

Louisa May Alcott - collection of essays, theses, articles about Alcott    http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/lma.htm

Louisa May Alcott
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/LouisaM-Alcott.html

Louisa May Alcott - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/alcott.html

Isabel Allende - page on Peruvian feminist writer
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Allende.html

Sherwood Anderson Foundation Page - brief biography and bibliography
http://www.urich.edu/~journalm/sahome.html

Sherwood Anderson - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/shanders.htm

Sherwood Anderson - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/anderson.html

Maya Angelou Home Page - biography, bibliography with e-texts, commentary, interviews, and sound clips
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Maya/maya5.html

Maya Angelou - solid, thorough site from Voices From the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/MayaAngelou.html

Guillaume Appollinaire - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/apollinaire/apolbiog.shtml

Louis Aragon - short biography, links to some online e-texts for this early 20th century French poet 
http://www.lm.com/~kalin/aragon.html

Isaac Asimov Home Page - comprehensive booklists, reviews, interviews and sound files of Asimov
http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/WWW/asimov_home_page.html

W.H. Auden - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.htm

W.H. Auden - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/auden/audebiog.shtml

Jane Austen Information Page  
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html

Jane Austen - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jausten.htm

American Society of Jane Austen Scholars Homepage            
http://facstaff.uww.edu/hipchene/JAusten/home.htm

B

Francis Bacon: What’s Shaken Bacon?  
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/

Sir Francis Bacon - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/index.html

Francis Bacon - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/bacon/baconbiog.shtml

James Baldwin - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm

James Baldwin Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/baldwin.htm

James Baldwin -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/baldwin/biogbald.shtml

James Baldwin - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/baldwin.html

Honore de Balzac - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm

John Barth - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/barth.html

Donald Barthelme - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/barthelm.html

Charles Baudelaire - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/baudelai.htm

Samuel Beckett  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beckett.htm

Samuel Beckett -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/beckett/beckbiog.shtml

Saul Bellow - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1976.html

Saul Bellow - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bellow.htm

Saul Bellow - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bellow.html

Saul Bellow -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/bellow/bellbiog.shtml

Stephen Vincent Benet - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.htm

Ambrose Bierce - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bierce.html

William Blake Page  
http://www.aa.net/~urizen/blake.html

Blake Archive  
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/blake.wip-1.html

William Blake - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm

Blake Web - extensive site
http://198.247.176.53/

A View on William Blake     
http://world.std.com/~albright/blake.html

Blake Timeline  
http://camel.conncoll.edu/ccacad/english/blake/timeline.html

Arna Bontemps Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bontemps.htm

Garden of the Forking Paths, a website devoted to Jose Luis Borges
http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/

Jorge Luis Borges -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/borges/borgbiog.shtml

Anne Bradstreet - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bradstre.html

Richard Brautigan - attractively formatted information on the life and works of this contemporary writer   
http://www.riza.com/richard/

Emily Bronte - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm

Gwendolyn Brooks - solid, thorough site from Voices From the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/GwendolynBrooks.html

William Wells Brown - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/brownw.html

Elisabeth Barrett Browning - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebrownin.htm

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/ebb/browningov.html

Robert Browning - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/browning.htm

William Cullen Bryant - biographical page
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/brybio.htm

William Cullen Bryant - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bryant.html

Pearl S. Buck - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pearlbuc.htm

John Bunyan - be sure to click on the More John Bunyan link, too
http://www.kbnet.co.uk/bedford/town/index.htm

Anthony Burgess - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/burgess.htm

Robert Burns: A Celebration
http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/burnsframe.html

William S. Burroughs  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wbburrou.htm

William S. Burroughs Leaves the Zone - links to works, interviews, criticism 
http://authors.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa080597.htm?pid=2734&cob=home

William S. Burroughs
http://www.bigtable.com/index.html

Lord Byron - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm

Lord Byron Homepage - biolgraphy, works, links
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8916/byron.html

Bryon: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work - attractive, thorough site
http://www.englishhistory.net/byron.html

C

George Washington Cable
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/cablecreole/about.html

George Washington Cable - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cable.html

Taylor Caldwell - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caldwel.htm

Albert Camus - biography, essays, photographs   
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm

Albert Camus - reasonably thorough collection of resources on his life and work, part of Bohemian Link  
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camus.htm

Albert Camus - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

Albert Camus -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/camus/biogcam.shtml

Albert Camus
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Camus/Author.html

Truman Capote - biographical and discussion of In Cold Blood
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~sarazeno/capote.html

Truman Capote - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

Thomas Carlyle: Health and Personality - also biography and   literary context, an unusual site
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/carlylea.htm

Thomas Carlyle - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm

Lewis Carroll - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/carroll/carrollov.html

Willa Cather Page   
http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/

Willa Cather - collection of essays and articles about Cather
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/cather1.htm

Willa Cather - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wcather.htm

Willa Cather - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cather.html

Constantine Cavafy -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/cavafy/cavbiog.shtml

Miguel de Cervantes - International Bibliography Online
http://csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/

Miquel de Cervantes - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cervant.htm

Raymond Chandler -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/chandler/chanbiog.shtml

Raymond Chandler - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rchandle.htm

Chaucer Metapage - the place to start on Chaucer research online; you can even take on online course here
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/

Geoffrey Chaucer - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/chaucer.htm

Geoffrey Chaucer / Canterbury Tales - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm

John Cheever
http://www.elk-horn.k12.ia.us/cheever.htm

Anton Chekhov - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tsehov.htm

Anton Chekhov -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/chekhov/chekbiog.shtml

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/chekhov.html

Charles W. Chestnutt Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/chesnutt.htm

Charles Waddell Chestnutt - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/chesnutt.html

Kate Chopin - collection of articles and essays on Chopin  
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/chopin1.htm

Kate Chopin - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/chopin.html

Samuel Clemens - see entries under Mark Twain

Samuel T. Coleridge  Archive
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

Samuel Coleridge - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/coleridg.htm

Joseph Conrad -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/conrad/conbiog.shtml

Joseph Conrad - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jconrad.htm

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness   
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/conrad/conrad.html

Joseph Conrad - includes article on the connection between Conrad's work and the Unabomber
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/jc/conrad.html

Pat Conroy
http://www.fusiondesign.com/books_unbound/conrybio.htm

James Fenimore Cooper
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cooper.html

James Fenimore Cooper - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm

James Fenimore Cooper / The Last of the Mohicans - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg134.htm

Hart Crane Home Page   
http://unr.edu/homepage/brad/hart/crane.html

Hart Crane - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/craneh.html

Hart Crane  - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/crane.htm

Stephen Crane
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Crane/crane.html

Stephen Crane - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/scrane.htm

Stephen Crane - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cranes.html

Countee Cullen Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/cullen.htm

Countee Cullen - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm

e.e. cummings - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cummings.html

e.e. cummings - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cummings.htm

D

Digital Dante - comprehensive, well-designed site with wide range of information about Dante
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html

Dante Alighieri / The Divine Comedy - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg064.htm

Chronology of Dante
http://www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/text/Chronology.html

Dante Alighieri - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm

Daniel Defoe - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm

The Friday Site of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
http://dewey.rug.ac.be/NewFriday/FridayNewHome.html

Charles Dickens Page - very good resource  
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

Charles Dickens - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html

Charles Dickens - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm

Dickens: Great Expectations - excellent discussion of various issues in the novel, done by a college class at the University of Texas at Austin, but it is not too difficult for high school students    http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/316british/GreatExpectations/index.html

Discovering Dickens - a series of Dickens projects that a student can do with links to the online resources necessary to do each project; can be used simply as a links site, too
http://www.west.net/~cybrary/Dickens/

Emily Dickinson - solid online collection of information, biography, and e-texts of poetry
http://userweb.interactive.net/~krisxlee/emily/

Emily Dickinson - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emilydic.htm

Emily Dickinson - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dickinso.html

John Donne - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/index.html

John Donne - links to e-texts of an extensive list of his works, no biography or criticism
http://www.emule.com/poetry/works.cgi?author=39

John Dos Passos - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dospasso.html

John Dos Passos
http://www2.idsonline.com/jeff/passos.html

Fyodor Dostoevsky
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Dostoevski/Author.html

Fyodor Dostoevsky - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm

Frederick Douglass Page -  from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/douglass.htm

Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist/Editor
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/DOUGLASS/home.html

Frederick Douglass - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/douglass.html

Theodore Dreiser - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dreiser.htm

Theodore Dreiser: The Naturalist
http://www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/Vander/316S97/MTRICE/project/index.htm

Theodore Dreiser
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dreiser.html

W.E.B. DuBois Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/dubois.htm

W.E.B. DuBois
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Voices/dubois(collab).html

W.E.B. DuBois - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dubois.html

The Alexandre Dumas pere Web Site  (in English or French)  
http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/biographie.asp

Alexandre Dumas - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adumas1.htm

Dumas's Life Chronology (In French and English)
http://www.acamedia.fr/dumas/english-dum/engdumchronoMC.htm

Paul Laurence Dunbar
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/dunbarpl.htm

Paul Laurence Dunbar - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dunbarp.html

Lawrence Durrell - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/durrell.htm

E

George Eliot - comprehensive collection of information and links
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html

George Eliot - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm

George Eliot - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/eliot/eliotov.html

T.S. Eliot    - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/eliot.htm

T.S. Eliot -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/eliot/elibiog.shtml

T.S. Eliot - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tseliot.htm

T.S. Eliot - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/eliot.html

T.S. Eliot: American Poet and Playwright
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/eliot.html

Ralph Ellison Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/ellisonr.htm

Ralph Waldo Ellison - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ellison.html

Ralph Ellison - from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rellison.htm

Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html

Ralph Ellison, Teacher’s Guide for The Invisible Man
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/teach/invisibleman.html

Ralph Ellison
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ellison.htm

Ralph Waldo Emerson   - one of best places to start, with links to nearly everything about Emerson online
http://miso.wwa.com/~jej/1emerson.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emerson.htm

Ralph Waldo Emerson - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/emerson.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson: American Author, Poet, and Philosopher
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/emerson.html

F

Frantz Fanon
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Fanon.html

William Faulkner  
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

William Faulkner - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/faulkner.htm

William Faulkner - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/faulkner.html

William Faulkner on the Web - terrific collection of online resources, a good place to start
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

William Faulkner -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/faulkner/faukbiog.shtml

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ferlingh.html

Henry Fielding - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hfieldin.htm

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Page - premier site
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/

F. Scott Fitzgerald -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/fitzgerald/fitzbiog.shtml

F. Scott Fitzgerald  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fsfitzg.htm

F. Scott Fitzgerald - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/fitzgera.html

Gustave Flaubert - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flaubert.htm

E.M. Forster - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/forster.htm

Anatole France- from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/afrance.htm

Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_apple.html

Robert Frost    - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/frost.htm

Robert Frost - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rfrost.htm

Robert Frost - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/frost.html

Robert Frost (reading his own poetry)
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/012294_harp_ITH.html

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Ernest J. Gaines  - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/gaines.html

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marquez.htm

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Macondo
http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/gabo/

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Marquez/Author.html

Jean Genet -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/genet/genetbiog.shtml

Andre Gide - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/agide.htm

Andre Gide  - attractive site 
http://www.lm.com/~kalin/gide.html

Andre Gide -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/gide/gidebiog.shtml

Allen Ginsburg - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ginsberg.htm

Allen Ginsberg - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ginsberg.html

Nikki Giovanni  - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://athena.english.vt.edu/Giovanni/Nikki_Giovanni.html

Nikki Giovanni Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/giovanni.htm

Ellen Glasgow - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/glasgow.html

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust -
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/faustidx.html

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
http://www.nor.com.au/users/gaiaguys/goethe.htm

Nikolay Gogol - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gogol.htm

William Golding - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgolding.htm

William Golding - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1983.html

Nadine Gordimer - information about South African author with tremendous contextual background 
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/gordimer/gordimerov.html

Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1991.html

Maxim Gorky - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gorki.htm

Günter Grass - Nobel Prize in Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1999.html

Günter Grass -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/grass/grasbiog.shtml

Zane Gray's West Society - very well done site
http://www.zanegreysws.org/zgwsmenu.htm

Graham Greene - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/greene.htm

Graham Greene  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/greene/greebiog.shtml

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Dashiell Hammett - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dhammett.htm

Lorraine Hansberry - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/corhans.htm

Lorraine Hansberry - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LorraineHansberry.html

Thomas Hardy - large site with biography, text, images
http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~mws/hardy.html

Thomas Hardy - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thardy.htm

Thomas Hardy: An Overview - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/authors/hardy/hardyov.html

Bret Harte  
http://www.solopublications.com/jurn6103.htm

Bret Harte Page - list of works, links to online resources
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/harte.htm

Vaclav Havel - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhavel.htm

Nathaniel Hawthorne - comprehensive links to e-texts, scroll down the page for timeline of Hawthorne's life with links to substantive material on his life and works
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne / Scarlet Letter - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm

Nathaniel Hawthorne - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm

Nathaniel Hawthorne - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/hawthorn.html

William Hazlitt
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRhazlitt.htm

Seamus Heaney   
http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html

Seamus Heaney - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/heaney.htm

Robert A. Heinlein - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/heinlein.htm

Joseph Heller
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/heller.htm

Lillian Hellman - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/hellman.html

Lillian Hellman - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhellman.htm

Ernest Hemingway Home Page - with links  
http://rio.atlantic.net/~gagne/hem/hem.html

Ernest Hemingway  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/hemingway/hemibiog.shtml

Ernest Hemingway - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm

Ernest Hemingway - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/hemingw.html

Lord Edward Herbert of Chibury - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/chirbury/

Hermann Hesse
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Hesse/Author.html

Hermann Hesse - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm

Hermann Hesse - thorough site, available in English or German
http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~ggotts/hesse/

Chester Himes Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/himes.htm

Oliver Wendell Holmes
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/owh/holmes.html

Gerard Manley Hopkins - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/hopkins/gmhov.html

William Dean Howells  
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/wdh/howells.html

William Dean Howells - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/howells.html

William Dean Howells - list of works, brief assessment, additional information
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/howells.html

Langston Hughes
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Hughes/hughes.htm

Langston Hughes - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm

Langston Hughes Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/hughesl.htm

Ted Hughes
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~angl/hughes.htm

Victor Hugo: French Poet and Novelist
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/hugo.html

Victor Hugo - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhugo.htm

Zora Neale Hurston  
http://pages.prodigy.com/zora/

Zora Neale Hurston - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/ZoraNealeHurston.html

Zora Neale Hurston and African American Folklore
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Voices/churston.html

Aldous Huxley  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahuxley.htm

Aldous Huxley - Soma Web
http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxley/index.html

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Henrik Ibsen  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ibsen.htm

Eugene Ionesco
http://cpcug.org/user/stefan/ionesco.html

Eugene Ionesco  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ionesco.htm

Washington Irving - timeline, works, discussion
http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/irving,washington.html

Washington Irving  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm

Washington Irving - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/irving.html

Kazuo Ishiguro - tremendous page that places Ishiguro in context as postcolonial writer in English
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/uk/ishiguro/ishiguroov.html

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The Henry James Scholar’s Guide to Websites - terrific place to start on James research
http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/

Henry James - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/james.html

Henry James Review
http://calliope.jhu.edu/journals/henry_james_review/

Henry James  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hjames.htm

Robinson Jeffers - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jeffers.html

Sarah Orne Jewett - collection of essays and articles about Jewett   
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/jewett1.htm

Sarah Orne Jewett
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jewett.html

James Weldon Johnson Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/johnsonj.htm

James Weldon Johnson
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/johnson.html

Samuel Johnson   
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/

Samuel Johnson  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/samuelj.htm

Ben Jonson - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/index.html

Ben Jonson - critical analysis, plays, poetry, and masques
http://www.cs.uwindsor.ca/units/english/PPP/Renaissance/Jonson/index.htm

James Joyce  - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/joyce.htm

James Joyce: Work in Progress - with links    
http://www.2street.com/joyce/

James Joyce / Ulysses - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg158.htm

International James Joyce Foundation Home Page
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/

IQ Infinity- The Unknown James Joyce
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/index.html

Hypermedia Joyce Studies (electronic journal of Joyce criticism)  
http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~callahan/hjs/hjs.html

James Joyce   -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/joyce/joycbiog.shtml

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Franz Kafka  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kafka.htm

John Keats: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work - attractive, thorough site
http://www.englishhistory.net/keats.html

John Keats  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jkeats.htm

Keats-Shelley Journal   
http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/ksjweb.htm

The Hand of the Poet: The Poems and Papers of John Keats
http://www.nypl.org/admin/pbl/nyplpub/keats.html

Keats: His Life and Poetry
http://hem.passagen.se/jonnyl/keats/index.htm

Jack Kerouac  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm

Jack Kerouac -
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/JackKerouac.html

Ken Kesey
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/KenKesey.html

Jamaica Kincaid - page on the Antiguan author with links to additional information including interviews
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/caribbean/kincaid/kincaidov.html

Barbara Kingsolver
http://www.kingsolver.com/

Rudyard Kipling - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/kipling/kiplingov.html

Rudyard Kipling  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kipling.htm

Rudyard Kipling - solid site with wide range of information
http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm

Jerzy Kosinski
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Kosinski/Author.html

Milan Kundera
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kundera.htm

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A Page for Charles Lamb
http://www.eldhorn.is/~lheite/Lamb1.html

William Langland - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/langland.htm

Pär Lagerkvist - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1951.html

D.H. Lawrence  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dhlawren.htm

D.H. Lawrence  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/lawrence/lawrbiog.shtml

Harper Lee  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm

Ursula LeGuin - thin page with basic biographical and bibliographic information
http://www.lgg.ru/~fantasy/cof/leguin/ulgeabau.htm

Doris Lessing  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lessing.htm

Doris Lessing: A Retrospective - page on the works and life of the feminist writer, raised in  South Africa
http://lessing.redmood.com/

Doris Lessing  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/lessing/lessbiog.shtml

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings - site devoted to Lewis, Tolkein and other English and Irish writers.  
http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~edwards/lewis.html

Into the Wardrobe: The C.S. Lewis Web Site
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/

Sinclair Lewis  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/slewis.htm

Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/

Jack London - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sandburg.htm

Jack London - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/london.html

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow.html

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/longfell.html

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/long.htm

Richard Lovelace  - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/

Robert Lowell -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/lowell/lowbiog.shtml

Robert Lowell  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rlowell.htm

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Naguib Mahfouz -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/mahfouz/mahfbiog.shtml

Norman Mailer  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm

Stephane Mallarme  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mallarme.htm

Sir Thomas Malory - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/malory.htm

David Mamet
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/mamet.htm

Thomas Mann  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmann.htm

Thomas Mann - Nobel Prize for Literature site
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1929.html

Thomas Mann -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/mann/mannbiog.shtml

Christopher Marlowe - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

Christopher Marlowe  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marlowe.htm

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - sites under Garcia Marquez

Edgar Lee Masters  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emasters.htm

Edgar Lee Masters
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/masters.html

Somerset Maugham  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maugham.htm

Guy de Maupassant  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maupassa.htm

François Mauriac - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1952.html

Mary McCarthy - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/mccarthy.html

Carson McCullers  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carsonmc.htm

Claude McKay Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/mckayc.htm

Terry McMillan - solid, thorough page from the Voice from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/TerryMcMillan.html

Herman Melville, The Life and Works
http://www.melville.org/

Herman Melville - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/melville.html

Herman Melville  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm

Moby Dick by Herman Melville   
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Moby-Dick/amlit.Moby-Dick.html

George Meredith: An Overview - solid site from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/authors/meredith/meredithov.html

James Michener
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Michener/index.htm

Edna St. Vincent Millay - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/millay.html

Arthur Miller
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/millera.htm

Arthur Miller - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/miller.html

Arthur Miller -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/miller/millbiog.shtml

John Milton, The Milton-L Page  
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html

John Milton / Paradise Lost - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg117.htm

The Milton Quarterly  
http://voyager.cns.ohiou.edu/~somalley/milton.html

Milton: Paradise Lost - excellent discussion of the poem, with cultural and political analysis as well, done by a college class at the University of Texas at Austin, but it is not too difficult for high school students
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/316british/paradise/index.html

John Milton  - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/

John Milton  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmilton.htm

Yukio Mishima -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/mishima/mishbiog.shtml

Moliere  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/moliere.htm

N. Scott Momaday - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/momaday.html

Thomas Moore - chronology and links
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Moore.html

Sir Thomas More  - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm

Toni Morrison  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/morrison/morbiog.shtml

Toni Morrison  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm

Charles Mungoshi - excellent pages out of Brown University that place this Zimbabwe author in contextual background
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/zimbabwe/mungoshi/mungoshiov.html

Iris Murdoch -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/murdoch/murdbiog.shtml

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Vladimir Nabakov - Zembla
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm

Vladimir Nabakov -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/nabokov/biognab.shtml

V.S. Naipaul
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/caribbean/naipaul/naipaulov.html

Pablo Neruda - Spanish language website also available here in English
http://www.uchile.cl/actividades_culturales/premios_nobel/neruda/Vida_Nerudaing.html

Frank Norris - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/norris.html

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Joyce Carol Oates - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/oates.html

Joyce Carol Oates: A Short Biography
http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.bio.html

Flannery O'Connor
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Voices/oconnor.html

Flannery O'Connor - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/oconnor.html

The Flannery O'Connor Collection - thorough site
http://peacock.gac.peachnet.edu/~sc/foc.html

Clifford Odets - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/odets.html

Michael Ondaatje
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/canada/literature/ondaatje/ondaatjeov.html

Eugene O'Neill  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oneill.htm

Eugene O'Neill -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/oneill/onelbiog.shtml

Eugene O'Neill - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/oneill.html

George Orwell  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gorwell.htm

George Orwell
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/orwell.htm

George Orwell -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/orwell/orwbiog.shtml

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Dorothy Parker  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dparker.htm

Alan Paton  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apaton.htm

Alan Paton
http://www.library.unp.ac.za/paton10.htm

Alan Paton
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Paton/Author.html

Walker Percy Project   
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/

Ann Petry - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AnnPetry.html

Harold Pinter  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hpinter.htm

Luigi Pirandello
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Pirandello/Author.html

Sylvia Plath - Personal Influences on Plath’s Writings
http://www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/slatin/sexton/plath.html

Sylvia Plath - biography
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/Sylvia-Plath--bio

Sylvia Plath  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/splath.htm

Sylvia Plath -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/plath/platbiog.shtml

Sylvia Plath - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/plath.html

Modernist Conversations: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: Two Confessional Poets
http://www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/slatin/sexton/sexton.html

Edgar Allan Poe - comprehensive resource site with information, links, and text
http://www.gothic.net/poe/

Edgar Allan Poe  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eapoe.htm

Edgar Allan Poe - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/poe.html

The Rape of the Lock Home Page (Pope)
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/

Alexander Pope  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apope.htm

Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/porter.html

Katherine Anne Porter - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kaporter.htm

Ezra Pound  - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages 
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/pound.htm

Ezra Pound - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/epound.htm

Ezra Pound -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/pound/pounbiog.shtml

Ezra Pound - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/pound.html

Reynolds Price - very short biography and bibliography
http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/find/bios/price.htm

Marcel Proust  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm

Marcel Proust  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/proust/proubiog.shtml

Aleksandr Pushkin, The Pushkin Page   
http://www.adultlearn.com/pushkin.html

Aleksandr Pushkin  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/puskin.htm

The (Thomas) Pynchon Files
http://pynchonfiles.com/PynchonFilesMainPage.htm

Thomas Pynchon - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/pynchon.html

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Sir Walter Raleigh - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/ralegh.htm

Ayn Rand, About Her Life
http://www.aynrand.org/aynrand/index.html

John Crowe Ransom
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ransom.html

Erich Maria Remarque  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm

Rainer Marie Rilke -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/rilke/rilkbiog.shtml

Rainer Marie Rilke  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rmrilke.htm

Arthur Rimbaud  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rimbaud.htm

Theodore Roethke - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/roethke.html

Edmond Rostand - from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rostand.htm

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dgr/dgrov.html

A Stranger No More (Philip Roth)
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Voices/Philiproth_index.htm

Salman Rushdie
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/rushdie/rushdieov.html

John Ruskin - great site from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/ruskin/ruskinov.html

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Bananafish Home - J.D. Salinger Page - biography and bibliography    
http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/index.html

J.D. Salinger    - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm

J.D. Salinger
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm

George Sand  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gsand.htm

Carl Sandburg  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sandburg.htm

José Saramago - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1998.html

Jean Paul Sartre
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Sartre/Author.html

Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95aug/scott.html

Sir Walter Scott  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wscott.htm

Modernist Conversations: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: Two Confessional Poets
http://www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/slatin/sexton/sexton.html

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

First Folio: Internet and Web Resources (Shakespeare) - an extensive lists of all types of online resources about Shakespeare and his work; there are some broken links here
http://www.ludweb.com/poetry/sonnets/links.html

William Shakespeare  - the complete works, e-texts and a serach engine
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

Shakespeare, Works of the Bard, e-texts, a search engine, and links
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/

Shakespeare Web
http://www.shakespeare.com/

William Shakespeare - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg097.htm

Shakespeare:  King Lear - excellent discussion of the play. Pages were done by a college class at the University of Texas at Austin, but not too advanced for high school students 
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/316british/kinglear/index1.html

William Shakespeare
http://www.collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/shakespeare/Author.html

George Bernard Shaw  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gbshaw.htm

George Bernard Shaw -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/shaw/shawbiog.shtml

Mary Shelley - see Mary Wollstonecraft

Percy Bysshe Shelley - from Jack Lynch's fine pages
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/FrankDemo/PShelley/pshelley.htm

Percy Bysshe Shelley  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pshelley.htm

Keats-Shelley Journal
http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/ksjweb.htm

Leslie Marmon Silko - page on Native American author    
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Silko.html

Leslie Marmon Silko - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LeslieMarmonSilko.html

Comprehensive WWW Site on Leslie Marmom Silko - potentially good site under slow construction   
http://serviette.unm.edu/people/ketchelx/silko/silko-home.html

Allan Sillitoe  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sillitoe.htm

Upton Sinclair  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm

Upton Sinclair - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/sinclair.html

Isaac Bashevis Singer  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ibsinger.htm

Issac Bashevis Singer - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1978.html

Lee Smith - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/smithl.html

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/alesol.htm

Natsume Soseki
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ns/soseki.html

Wole Soyinka - Stanford University pages with biography, commentary, and works of the African dramatist and novelist
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/index.html

Wole Soyinka Study Guide - interesting page from the University of Washington   
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~brians/anglophone/soyinka.html

Edmund Spenser Home Page - links to various online resources, including academic papers and e-textx
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/

Edmund Spenser - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spenser.htm

Edmund Spenser/The Faerie Queen  - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg086.htm

Gertrude Stein     
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-bio.html

Gertrude Stein  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gstein.htm

Steinbeck Research Center - from San Jose State, home of the John Steinbeck Research Center   
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html

John Steinbeck  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/johnstei.htm

John Steinbeck
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/steinbec.html

John Steinbeck  -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/steinbeck/steibiog.shtml

Stendhal  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/stendhal.htm

Wallace Stevens   - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/stevens.htm

Wallace Stevens
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/home.html

Wallace Stevens - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wsteven.htm

Wallace Stevens - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stevens.html

Wallace Stevens (reading his own poetry)
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/021594_harp_ITH.html

Robert Louis Stevenson  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rlsteven.htm

Robert Louis Stevenson - comprehensive site
http://www.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm

Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/StoweHB.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hbstowe.htm

Harriet Beecher Stowe - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stowe.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe / Uncle Tom's Cabin -  - from Classic Texts pages, be sure to use the Next button for additional information
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg149.htm

Harriet Beecher Stowe - texts of a couple of articles about Stowe 
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/stowe1.htm

August Strindberg  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/strindbe.htm

Algernon Charles Swinburne - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/swinburne/acsov.html

Jonathan Swift  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jswift.htm

J.M. Synge -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/synge/syngbiog.shtml

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Rabindranath Tagore -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/tagore/tagbiog.shtml

Amy Tan - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AmyTan.html

Junichiro Tanizaki  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tanizaki.htm

Allen Tate - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/tate.html

The Tennyson Page - biography and e-texts
http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

Alfred Lord Tennyson - from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/tennyson/tennyov.html

Alfred Lord Tennyson  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tennyson.htm

William Makepeace Thackeray: An Overview - good site from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/authors/wmt/wmtov.html

William Makepeace Thackeray  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wmthacke.htm

Dylan Thomas -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/thomas/thombiog.shtml

Dylan Thomas  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dthomas.htm

Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/thompson.htm

Henry David Thoreau - serious collection of information about Thoreau, commentary, e-texts of his work
http://www.geocities.com/~freereligion/1thorea.html

Henry David Thoreau  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thoreau.htm

Henry David Thoreau - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/thoreau.html

Cybersaunter: Henry David Thoreau - critical biography with interesting information about Thoreau and Walden; site promises to have commentary at a later date
http://usmh12.usmd.edu/thoreau/

Henry David Thoreau - great place to start with links to nearly everything about Thoreau online
http://miso.wwa.com/~jej/1thorea.html

J.R.R. Tolkein  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tolkien.htm

Leo Tolstoy
http://www.orst.edu/instruct/eng455-555/tolstoy.htm

Leo Tolstoy  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ltolstoi.htm

John Kennedy Toole
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/toole.htm

Jean Toomer Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/toomer.htm

Anthony Trollope - good site from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/trollope/trollopeov.html

Anthony Trollope - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trollope.htm

Ivan Turgenev - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/turgenev.htm

Ever the Twain Shall Meet, Mark Twain on the Web
http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html

Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/

Mark Twain: American Author and Humorist
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/twain.html

Mark Twain Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/twain.htm

Mark Twain - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/clemens.html

Twain Web  
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/forum/twainweb.html

Anne Tyler  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/atyler.htm

Anne Tyler
http://www.baylor.edu/~Stephanie_Gooch/

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John Updike  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/updike.htm

John Updike -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/updike/upbiog.shtml

John Updike
http://www.users.fast.net/~joyerkes/

John Updike - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/updike.html

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Paul Verlaine  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/verlaine.htm

Jules Verne  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/verne.htm

Kurt Vonnegut   
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/kv/kv.html

Kurt Vonnegut  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vonnegut.htm

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Derek Walcott - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1992.html

Alice Walker - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AliceWalker.html

Alice Walker, Womanist Writer
http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~melindaj/alice.html

Alice Walker
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Walker/walker.htm

Robert Penn Warren  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/warren.htm

Robert Penn Warren
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/warren.html

Booker T. Washington Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bookert.htm

Evelyn Waugh  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ewaugh.htm

Doubting Hall, a Guided Tour Around the World of Evelyn Waugh
http://www.johnnyp.demon.co.uk/waugh.htm

H.G. Wells - from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hgwells.htm

H.G. Wells -  from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/wells/wellbiog.shtml

Eudora Welty
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/welty_eudora/

Eudora Welty - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/welty.html

Dorothy West - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/DorothyWest.html

Nathanael West from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm

Edith Wharton - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wharton.html

Edith Wharton  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wharton.htm

Phyllis Wheatley  - solid, thorough page from the Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color site
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/PhillisWheatley.html

Phyllis Wheatley - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wheatley.html

Phyllis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism - short article
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive - biography, information, texts, a very solid site  
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/

Walt Whitman - from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm

Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Collection  
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html

Walt Whitman - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/whitman.html

John Greenleaf Whittier
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/whittier.html

Elie Wiesel- from the Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wiesel.htm

Oscar Wilde, The Wild Wilde Web
http://www.anomtec.com/oscarwilde/index.html

Oscar Wilde - from the Calendar of Authors web site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owilde.htm

Oscar Wilde - good site from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/wilde/wildeov.html

Thornton Wilder  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/twilder.htm

Thornton Wilder - page under reconstruction, use this link to reach a version of the pages
http://www.thornton-wilder.com/main/guestbook.html

Tennessee Williams  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/williams.htm

Tennessee Williams - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/williamt.html

William Carlos Williams
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/williamw.html

The Thomas Wolfe Web Site
http://coast.lib.uncwil.edu/wolfe/wolfe.html

Tom Wolfe
http://www.tomwolfe.com/

Virginia Woolf  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vwoolf.htm

Virginia Woolf  - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/woolf/woolfbiog.shtml

Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley and Frankenstein
http://www.desert-fairy.com/maryshel.shtml

Resources for the Study of Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/franken/franken.html

William Wordsworth  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wordswor.htm

Richard Wright Page - from Roger Blackwell Bailey's fine Chronology of African-American Authors site
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/wright.htm

Richard Wright  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rwright.htm

Richard Wright - page from teacher's online guide identifying issues and themes in writer's work
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wrightr.html

Sir Thomas Wyatt - from the terrific Luminarium web site
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyatt.htm

Y

William Butler Yeats  - from Eiichi Hishikawa's Poetry Pages
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/yeats.htm

William Butler Yeats  
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/yeats.html

William Butler Yeats  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wbyeats.htm

W.B. Yeats  - from the BBC's Centurions site - the 100 best artists and writers of the century; be sure to look at other resources, with includes additional information and links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/centurions/yeats/yeatbiog.shtml

Z

Emile Zola  - from the excellent Calendar of Authors site
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ezola.htm