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Authors, Poets and Playwrights - Alphabetical List

• Achebe, Chinua - An overview - National University of Singapore

• Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams

• Adams, Douglas

• Addams, Jane. Hull House Museum

• Agee, James (1909-1955) American writer - About.com

• Agee, James - I Hear America Singing - PBS

• Agee, James - James Agee Collection - University of Texas at Austin

• Alcott, Louisa May - Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts

• Alexie, Sherman - Modern American Poetry

• Alexie, Sherman - ShermanAlexie.com

• Allende, Isabel

• Almond, David

• Anderson, Sherwood - The Sherwood Anderson Literary Center

• Angelou, Maya. Official Website

• Aronson, Marc

• Atwood, Margaret - O.W.Toad - Margaret Atwood Reference Site

• Atwood, Margaret - Canadian Poetry  & University of Toronto

• Auden, W.H. - The W. H. Auden Society

• Austen, Jane - Austen.com

• Austen, Jane - Jane Austen Info Page

• Austen, Jane - Jane Austen Society of North America

• Avi - Avi's web site

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• Baldwin, James - American Masters (PBS)

• Baldwin, James - Random House

• Barfield, Owen - Owen Barfield World Wide Website

• Barron, T.A.

• Barry, Dave

• Baum, L. Frank - The Oz Encyclopedia

• Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website

• Beckett, Samuel - The Samuel Beckett Endpage

• Blake, William - The William Blake Archive

• Blake, William - Willam Blake Online

• Blume, Judy - Judy Blume's Home Base

• Bly, Robert

• Bradbury, Ray

• Bradbury, Ray - Ray Bradbury Online

• Brecht, Bertolt - International Brecht Society

• Brooks, Bruce - Harper Collins Publishers

• Brooks, Bruce - Learning About Bruce Brooks

• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - Reading Room, Women's Studies Database, University of Maryland

• Buck, Pearl S. - Books and Writers

• Buechner, Frederick - About the Author - Wheaton College

• Burgess, Anthony - Biographical Sketch - University of Texas as Austin

• Burgess, Anthony - Books and writers

• Burgess, Anthony - Guardian Unlimited

• Burgess, Anthony - The Anthony Burgess Center

• Burgess, Melvin

• Burns, Robert - Robert Burns Country the official Robert Burns site

• Byron, Lord - A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work

• Byron, Lord - George Gordon, Lord Byron

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• Cabot, Meg - Author's homepage

• Card, Orson Scott - Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card

• Carroll, Lewis - Lewis Carroll Home Page

• Cather, Willa - Willa Cather Electronic Archive - University of Nebraska at Lincoln

• Cather, Willa - Willa Cather Page

• Cather, Willa - Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation, Red Cloud, Nebraska

• Chaucer, Geoffrey - geoffreychaucer.org an annotated guide to online resources

• Chaucer. Geoffrey - MetaPage

• Chesterton, G.K. - The American Chesterton Society

• Chesterton, G.K.

• Child, Lincoln

• Chopin, Kate - About Kate Chopin (1851-1904) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Chopin, Kate - Kate Chopin A Re-Awakening - PBS

• Chopin, Kate - Teacher Resource File

• Clancy, Tom

• Cohen, Leonard - The Leonard Cohen Files

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive

• Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl

• Connelly, Michael - Official web site

• Cooper, James Fenimore - James Fenimore Cooper Society Home Page

• Coville, Bruce

• Coward, Noel - The Noel Coward Society

• Crane, Hart - The Hart Crane WebBridge

• Crane, Stephen - Classic Notes

• Crane, Stephen - The Stephen Crane Society Home Page

• Creech, Sharon

• Crichton, Michael - Official site.

• Crutcher, Chris - Chris Crutcher's Authorized Web Site

• Curtis, Christopher Paul

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• Dahl, Roald - Official Web Site

• Dante - Digital Dante

• Dante - Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)

• Davis, Terry

• Dickinson, Emily - Dickinson Electronic Archives

• Dickinson, Emily - Emily Dickinson International Society

• Douglass, Frederick - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

• Douglass, Frederick - Library of Congress

• Douglass, Frederick - The Frederick Douglass Museum & Cultural Center

• Doyle, Arthur Conan - Sherlock Holmes on the Web the Sherlockian.Net Holmepage

• Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Arthur Conan Doyle Society

• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - Official Web Site of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate

• Dreiser, Theodore - Theodore Dreiser on the Web

• DuBois, W.E.B. - The W.E.B.DuBois Virtual University

• DuBois, W.E.B. - W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center

• Duncan, Lois

• Durrell, Lawrence - International Lawrence Durrell Society

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• Eliot, T.S. - A Survey of Websites - Vanderbilt University
• Eliot, T.S. - TSEbase - University of Missouri-Columbia
• Eliot, T.S. - What the Thunder Said
• Ellison, Ralph - Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
• Erikson, John - Hank the Cowdog's Official Web Site

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• Faulkner, William - The William Faulkner Society

• Faulkner, William - William Faulkner on the Web

• Feynman, Richard P. - Feynman Online

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - EducETH

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Home Page

• Fitzgerald, F.Scott - American Storytellers -The Sensible Thing - PBS

• Fitzgerald, F.Scott - F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary - University of South Carolina

• Fleischman, Paul - Official Web Site

• Flinn, Alex - Young Adult Writer (Official Site)

• Ford Madox Ford Society

• Frank, Anne - Anne Frank Center, USA

• Franklin, Benjamin - A Documentary History -- J.A. Leo Lemay

• Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin - An Extraordinary Life. An Electric Mind - PBS

• Franklin, Benjamin - The Electric Franklin - Independence Hall Association

• Frazier, Charles - Salon - Cold Mountain diary

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• Gaiman, Neil
• Gaines, Ernest J. - Vintage Books A Lesson Before Dying
• Gantos, Jack
• George, Jean Craighead - The Official Jean Craighead George Website
• Ginsberg, Allen - AllenGinsberg.org
• Ginsberg, Allen - LitKicks Allen Ginsberg
• Godden, Rumer - Official site of Rumer Godden Literary Trust
• Gutman, Dan (Official Page)

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• Hamilton, Alexander - From Revolution to Reconstruction Biographies

• Hamilton, Alexander - The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton, by Ian Finseth

• Hamilton, Virginia (Official Site)

• Haskins, James - Official Web Page (Harper Collins Publishers)

• Hawking, Stephen - Stephen Hawking's Universe - PBS Online

• Hawking, Stephen

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) Home Page from Eldritch Press

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Hawthorne in Salem

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

• Heller, Joseph - The Joseph Heller Archive - University of South Carolina

• Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Illinois

• Hesse, Hermann - Hermann Hesse Home Page

• Hesse, Hermann - Herman Hesse Portal

• Hinton, S.E. - Official web site

• Hobbs, Will - Official Website

• Hough, Emerson - Des Moines Register

• Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) Teacher Resource File

• Hurston, Zora Neale - Biographer Carla Kaplan interview - Jerry Jazz Musician

• Hurston, Zora Neale

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• Jacques, Brian - Redwall Abbey The Official Redwall Web Site
• James, Henry - The Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites R. Hathaway
• Jance, J.A. - Official website
• Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)

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• Kafka, Franz - The Castle

• Kafka, Franz - Constructing Franz Kafka - University of Pittsburgh

• Karr, Mary - Salon - Mary Karr

• Keats, John - A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work

• Kennedy, John F. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Home Page

• Kennedy, X.J. and Dorothy M.

• Kerouac, Jack - Jack Kerouac's Blue Neon Alley - A directory of the Beat Generation, Jazz & Freedom on the World Wide Web

• Khanga, Yelena - New Hampshire College - Yelena Khanga

• Kincaid, Jamaica - SALON Features Jamaica Kincaid

• King, Jr., Martin Luther - Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site (National Park Service)

• King, Jr., Martin Luther - The King Center

• King, Jr., Martin Luther - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project - Stanford University

• King, Jr., Martin Luther. - The Seattle Times

• King, Stephen - StephenKing.com The Official Stephen King Web Site

• Kingsolver, Barbara

• Koontz, Dean - The Official Web Site

• Korman, Gordon - Official Web Site

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• L'Engle, Madeleine - About the Author - Wheaton College

• L'Engle, Madeleine - Bonastra -- The Madeleine L'Engle WWW Resource

• Lear, Edward - Edward Lear Home Page

• Lee, Harper - Alabama Academy of Honor Nelle Harper Lee

• Lee, Harper - Author Profile Harper Lee - teenreads.com

• Lee, Harper - Books and writers

• Lee, Harper - ClassicNotes About Harper Lee

• Lee, Harper - EducETH - The English Page

• Lee, Harper - Harper Lee, A Brief Biography - Chicago Public Library

• Lee, Harper - Lee Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee

• Lee, Harper - NPR's All Things Considered -- 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

• Lee, Harper - Reconstructing Atticus Finch - Michigan Law Review

• Lee, Harper - Spark Notes - To Kill A Mockingbird

• Lee, Harper - The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide - Belmont High School

• Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird - eNotes

• Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

• Lester, Julius

• Lewis, Beverly

• Lewis, C.S. - A Survey of Websites - Vanderbilt University

• Lewis, C.S. - C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Resources Web Site

• Lewis, C.S. - C. S. Lewis Institute

• Lewis, C.S. - C.S. Lewis Foundation - Living the Legacy!

• Lewis, C.S. - Into the Wardrobe a Web site devoted to C. S. Lewis

• Lewis, C.S. - Welcome to NARNIA

• Lewis, Meriwether - Lewis and Clark PBS

• Lewis, Sinclair - Sinclair Lewis Society

• Lindsay, Vachel - VachelLindsay.org

• Lipsyte, Robert - Official Web Page

• Lockhart, E. - The Boyfriend List

• London, Jack - Jack London International

• London, Jack - Jack London's Ranch Album

• London, Jack - The Jack London Collection - University of California Berkeley

• Lowry, Lois.

• Lowry, Lois - Learning About Lois Lowry

• Lynch, Chris - Official Web Page

M      Top of Page

• Macdonald, George - The Golden Key

• Madison, James - James Madison Center James Madison University

• Maron, Margaret - Official web site

• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Macondo - Author Homepage

• Marsden, John

• Mason, Bobbie Ann - EducETH - The English Page

• McCaffrey, Anne - The World of Pern - Random House

• McCaffrey, Anne - The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey

• McCarthy, Cormac - The Cormac McCarthy Society

• McKinley, Robin - Sunshine (Official Site)

• Melville, Herman - Herman Melville's Arrowhead - Berkshire Historical Society

• Melville, Herman - The Life and Works of Herman Melville

• Merril, Judith - "The Little Mother of Science Fiction"

• Mikaelsen, Ben (Official Site)

• Miller, Arthur - American Masters . Arthur Miller PBS

• Miller, Arthur - Arthur Miller Society

• Miller, Arthur - Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible - EDSITEment - Lesson Plan

• Montgomery, L.M. - L.M. Montgomery Institute

• Montgomery, L.M. - Prince Edward Island Anne of Green Gables and L.M. Montgomery

• Morrison, Toni - The Toni Morrison Society

• Mosley, Walter

• Muggeridge, Malcolm - About the Author - Wheaton College

• Myers, Walter Dean - Harper Collins Publishers

• Myers, Walter Dean - Learning About Walter Dean Myers

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• Napoli, Donna Jo (Official Site)

• Nix, Garth - Personal Web Site

• Nix, Garth - Abhorsen Trilogy

• Nix, Garth - The Old Kingdom Series - About Garth Nix - Keys to the Kingdom Series (Harper Collins Publishers)

• Nix, Garth - The Seventh Tower - Scholastic.com

• Nuwer, Hank

• Oates, Joyce Carol - Official Web Page (Harper Collins Publishers)

• O'Connor, Flannery - Flannery O'Connor Collection - Georgia College and State University

• O'Dell, Scott - Scott O'Dell Web Page

• Oke, Janette

• O'Neill, Eugene - eOneill.com An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive

• O'Neill, Eugene - Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (National Park Service)

• Oppel, Kenneth

• Orwell, George - George Orwell Links

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• Paine, Thomas - USHistory.org

• Paolini, Christopher - Eragon

• Park, Linda Sue - Official Web Site

• Pateneaude, David

• Paterson, Katherine - Terabithia.com - The Official Site of Author Katherine Paterson

• Paulsen, Gary - Learning About Gary Paulsen

• Peck, Robert Newton - Peck's Home Page

• Peretti, Frank - A Conversation - Crosswalk.com

• Peretti, Frank - PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly

• Peters, Elizabeth

• Philbrick, Rodman

• Poe, Edgar Allan - E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore

• Poe, Edgar Allan - Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher

• Potok, Chaim - Novelist, philosopher, theologian, playwright, artist, editor

• Pratchett, Terry

• Preston, Douglas - Official site

• Prose, Francine - Official Web Page

• Pullman, Philip - Official Web Site

• Pullman, Philip - Random House

• Pyle, Howard

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• Rand, Ayn - All About Ayn Rand - Ayn-Rand.com

• Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged

• Rand, Ayn - Ayn Rand- A Sense of Life

• Reilly, Matthew - Official Site

• Reilly, Rick - Sports Illustrated (SI.com)

• Remarque, Erich Maria - remarque.org

• Rennison, Louise - "Georgia Nicolson"

• Rilke, Rainer Maria - Rainer Maria Rilke Archive

• Rinaldi, Ann - Ann Rinaldi : Historian & Storyteller

• Rinaldi, Ann - Learning About Ann Rinaldi

• Rinaldi, Ann - Official Web Page (Harper Collins Publishers)

• Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli.com

• Rodgers, Richard - 2002 Centennial

• Rodriguez, Richard - Hunger of Memory

• Roosevelt, Eleanor - Biography

• Rowling, J.K. - Official Site: Harry Potter and more

• Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter - Scholastic.com

• Rushin, Steve - Sports Illustrated (SI.com)

• Rylant, Cynthia

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• Sachar, Louis

• Salinger, J.D. - Salinger.Org

• Salisbury, Graham - graham salisbury's place... aloha!

• Sand, George. Some aspects of her life and writings.

• Sandler, Martin W. - Official Web Page

• Sayers, Dorothy - The Dorothy L Sayers Society

• Schlessinger, Dr. Laura

• Scott, Sir Walter, by Richard H. Hutton.

• Scott, Sir Walter. The Life of Scott, by J. G. Lockhart.

• Seuss, Dr. - Seussville!

• Shakespeare, William - Folger Shakespeare Library

• Shakespeare, William - Hamletworks.org

• Shakespeare, William - Internet Public Library Shakespeare Bookshelf

• Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare Internet Editions

• Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare Online

• Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page

• Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

• Shakespeare, William - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare, William - The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Website

• Shan, Darren

• Silko, Leslie Marmon - An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko - Alt-X Berlin

• Silverstein, Shel - Official Site

• Slade, Arthur

• Snicket, Lemony - A Series of Unfortunate Events

• Soto, Gary (Official Site)

• Sparks, Nicholas - Official web site

• Spiegelman, Art - Little Lit

• Spinelli, Jerry (Official Page)

• Spinelli, Jerry - Biography

• Spyri, Johanna - The Heidi by Johanna Spyri website

• Steinbeck, John - The Center For Steinbeck Studies

• Steinbeck, John - The National Steinbeck Center

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Mothers in Uncle Tom's America - University of Virginia

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher - The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

• Swinburne, Algernon Charles - The Swinburne Project

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• Tan, Amy - Academy of Achievement

• Tan, Amy - Salon Interview

• Taylor, Theodore - Author's homepage

• Thomas, Joyce Carol (Official Site)

• Tennyson, Alfred - The Tennyson Page

• Tolan, Stephanie S. (Official Site)

• Tolkien, J.R.R. - J.R.R. Tolkien in Oxford

• Tolkien, J.R.R. - Lord of the Rings Movie Site

• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Tolkien Society

• Tolkien, J.R.R. - Tolkien Online - The One Ring

• Tomlinson, Theresa -  Home Page

• Trueman, Terry - Printz Honor Author

• Turner, Ann (Official Site)

• Turner, Megan Whalen

• Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) - About.com

• Twain, Mark - Biography Project for Schools (A and E)

• Twain, Mark - Mark Twain - BoondocksNet.com

• Twain, Mark - Mark Twain in his Times

• Vega, Suzanne

• Verne, Jules - Centre International Jules Verne (be sure to click the British flag to read this site in English)

• Verne, Jules - Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection

• Vizzini, Ned

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• Warren, Robert Penn

• Weaver, Will

• Werlin, Nancy

• Westlake, Donald - Author site

• Whelan, Gloria (Official Site)

• White, E. B. - HarperCollins

• White, T.H. - England Have My Bones the T. H. White Webpage

• Whitman, Walt - The Walt Whitman Archive

• Wilde, Oscar - Official Web Site

• Wilde, Oscar - The Victorian Web

• Williams, Charles - The Charles Williams Society

• Williams, Laura E.

• Wolff, Tobias - The Salon Interview Tobias Wolff

• Woolf, Virginia - International Virginia Woolf Society

• Woolf, Virginia - Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

• Yeats, William Butler - Collection at Bartleby.com

• Yep, Laurence - Learning About Laurence Yep

• Yep, Laurence - Official Web Page

• Yolen, Jane - Official Web Site