Chinua Achebe ( November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart, which is perhaps the most widely-read book in modern African literature
Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 - May 27, 1999)[1]) was an American novelist and short story writer.Adams mostly wrote about women's lives and relationships, and was also a University professor. In her novels as well as short stories Adams wrote about all aspects of a relationship, from the good to the bad and everything in between. She also won numerous awards including the O. Henry Award, and Best American Short Stories Award.
Adams, Douglas ...biography of the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Includes video clip
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
Alcott, Louisa May...biography, bibliography, lesson plans and other resources.
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a 19th-century American author who wrote approximately 135 dime novels. Many of his works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others.
Julia Alvarez is the author of a book of essays; five collections of poetry; five books for children; and five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and her latest novel, Saving the World.
Anderson, Laurie Halse - This
site will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about children’s
author Laurie Halse Anderson and her books. Laurie writes for all age levels;
picture books for small children, middle-grade novels, and young adult novels
for teenagers.
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. His influence on American fiction was profound; his literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and others.
Isabel Allende, (born 2 August 1942), is a Chilean novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America.[1] She is largely famous for her contributions to Spanish literature, novels such as "The House of the Spirits" and "City of the Beasts", which have been hugely successful.
Angelou, Maya...best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award.
A. Manette Ansay was born in Michigan in 1964....She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Friends of American Writers Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards. Her fifth novel, Midnight Champagne (1999), was a finalist for a the National Book Critics Circle Award. Also in 1999, Oprah Winfrey chose Vinegar Hill (1994) as her November 1999 Book Club Selection.
Harriette Simpson Arnow...her most famous work The Dollmaker, was published in 1954. This novel about a poor Kentucky family forced by economic necessity to move to Detroit reflected her own life, but also reflects the experiences of many Appalachians who migrated from their homes for the promise of better lives in the industrialized North.
Asimov, Isaac...the quintessential author, who in his lifetime wrote over 500 books that enlightened, entertained, and spanned the realm of human knowledge.
Margaret Atwood Page...Luminarium site for Margaret Atwood, contemporary Canadian author, and one of the most acclaimed contemporary woman writers. Includes her life, fiction, ...
Auden, W. H....witty and technically accomplished writer.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)...Jane Austen Information Page ,wikipedia entry...The Complete Jane Austen ...Step into the life and times of Jane Austen as you explore each novel, the men of Austen, themes, and the surprising insights a study of Jane Austen can offer for 21st century life.
Richard David Bach (b. June 23, 1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the best-selling novel, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and the 1973 movie based on the book along with "Illusions, The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah", plus others.
Baldwin, James...American Masters...PBS
Honore de Balzac...was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films
Andrea Barrett (b. November 16, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of Ship Fever, a collection of short stories which won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 and her book Servants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
John Barth is the author of Giles Goat-Boy, The Sot-Weed Factor, and Chimera, among many others. His short story collection "Lost in the Funhouse" and his essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" have been required reading on college campuses since the '70s. Barth is widely considered to be among the most important American novelists of the 20th century and one of the foremost practitioners of postmodernism and metafiction.
L. Frank Baum...Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz.
Ambrose Bierce...Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.
Blake, William...resources for pleasure, study, or intensive research.
Blume, Judy | Official Web Site...Includes a biography, photos, answers to frequent questions, listing of books, and writing tips
Paul Bowles, expatriate writer, composer and traveler who lived in Tangier, Morocco for 52 years. His most famous novel is The Sheltering Sky, filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Bradbury, Ray...information about one of America's greatest storytellers
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.
Brontë Sisters...All about Charlotte, Emily and Anne
Geraldine Brooks - Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Journalist ...
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett...a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
Buck, Pearl...Her most widely recognized book, The Good Earth, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, offered a description of life in a Chinese peasant village and included the perspectives of women who lived and experienced everyday hardships.
Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English–American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Burns, Robert...Everything you wanted to know about Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard (and lots more besides).
Edgar Rice Burroughs...(September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres.
EllisParkerButler - find information
about the life and work of Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist and author...Author
of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories, poems and essays, Ellis
Parker Butler is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs in which a
bure
Erskine Caldwell One of the most widely read authors of the 20th Century. His books sold 80 million copies and were translated into 43 languages
Camus, Albert...French/Algerian writer known for his depiction of man's struggles with absurdity and for his attempt to ground politics in a moral humanism.
Capote, Truman...PBS American Masters series.
Orson Scott Card ... Nobody had ever won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, until Orson Scott Card received them for ENDER'S GAME and its sequel, SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, in 1986 and 1987.
Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American author of magic realist/slipstream/mainstream fiction
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are often credited with launching the global environmental movement.
John Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American writer and translator. He won the National Book Award in 1989 for his novel Spartina.
Willa Cather...was born in December of 1873. Like many other authors, Cather worked a variety of jobs, from journalist, to teacher, to editor of McClure's magazine. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1923 for One of Ours, however, this was not the only honor she received...
Cervantes, Miguel de. Miguel de Cervantes. The Cervantes Project
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation." In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a critically acclaimed novel that The New York Review of Books called his magnum opus; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs."
Chekov, Anton . Biography and works. Online Literature.com
Chopin, Kate. Kate Chopin Page ... Louisiana Public Broadcasting production revisits the life and work of renowned nineteenth-century Louisiana author ...inlcudes biography, links, etc.
Chandler, Raymond... A World Wide Web site providing scholarship and information about Raymond Chandler, America's foremost detective novelist.
Christie, Agatha...All about Agatha Christie, bio, pictures, links to books and movies.
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-one novels of suspense, three collections of short stories,...
Clarke, Arthur C...The achievements of Arthur C. Clarke, unique among his peers, bridge the arts and sciences. His works and his authorship have ranged from scientific discovery to science fiction, from technical application to entertainment, and have made a global impact on the lives of present and future generations.
Collins, Billy. Billy Collins poems, internet lnks, news....America's Poet Laureate!
Conrad, Joseph... biography and everything else you could possibly want
James Fenimore Cooper...(September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many consider his masterpiece.
Jim Crace (born March 1, 1946 in Hertfordshire, England) is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following.
Crane, Stephen ... "Life and Works of Stephen Crane"
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903–January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance.
Cummings, E E (Edwin Estlin) ... E. E. Cummings' Life | General Commentary by Cummings | Reviews of Selected Poetry Collections , etc.
Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours and Specimen Days.
Dahl, Roald...the official Roald Dahl web site ...whimsical, info packed...
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives in New York City.
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a Permanent Resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
Pete Dexter (born 1943) is an American novelist He was the recipient of the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Paris Trout.
Charles Dickens. David Purdue's Charles Dickens Page
Dickey, James. James Dickey Society and Newsletter
Emily Dickinson,December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century.
Edgar Laurence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of The Book of Daniel in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, Ragtime, was a commercial and critical success.
Donne, John. John Donne. Poetic works essays, life, audio files.
John Rodrigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 — September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist...Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos' first novel was published in 1920. Titled One Man's Initiation: 1917 it was followed by an antiwar story, Three Soldiers, which brought him considerable recognition. His 1925 novel about life in New York City, titled Manhattan Transfer, was a commercial success and introduced experimental stream-of-consciousness techniques into Dos Passos' method.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...British mystery author & physician...the Official web site of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate. It includes a specially written biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and you can find information on his books and the films which were inspired by his writing.
John Dryden,was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
Umberto Eco. Porta Ludovica. Interviews, texts, web links.
Eggers, David. David Eggers. Article from Flak magazine.
Eliot, George. George Eliot etexts, societies, pictures, Eliot websites.
T S Eliot. was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent".
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
Ralph Waldo Emerson internet sites.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (b. April 13, 1960, Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer
Euripides. The Euripides Home Page
Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 New York City - March 12, 2003 Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.
Faulkner, William. William Faulkner on the Web. Places, biography, Oxford Mississippi, library commentaries, plot synopses, 'what's new.'
Edna Ferber ...(August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright.
Henry Fielding. Online etexts, Bartleby.com
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Centenary Home Page... from Wikipedia: (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English poet, novelist and biographer.
Gustav Flaubert,was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857)
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American writer best known for his 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated.
E. M. Forster...was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End
Fowles, John. A John Fowles Webpage.
Anne Frank Center USA website - By promoting individual initiatives to overcome prejudice and work for
tolerance, and by drawing on the power of Anne Frank’s diary, we hope
to inspire every young person because universal human rights begin with
the individual. (
Anne Frank in the World, 1929
- 1945 - This Anne Frank unit is designed with several lessons of various
lengths. These lessons are usable in many different disciplines. Using one,
several, or all of the lessons will address the unit’s objectives
to some degree.
Miep Gies and The Diary
of Anne Frank - An unfamiliar name to most people, but without this remarkable woman, there would be no The Diary of Anne Frank
The Anne Frank
House - On July 1942, Otto Frank, Edith Frank-Hollander and their daughters
Margot and Anne hid in this building on the Prinsengracht. They where later
joined by Mr. and Mrs Daan, their sun Peter and Mr. Dussel. The building
consists of two parts : a front house
The Diary of Anne Frank - Activities for the student including: BioPoem,Diary
Entry,Floor Plan, Newspaper, Miep Gies, Otto Frank
The Diary of Anne
Frank Book Notes - Comprehensive Guides to Classic Literature
Jonathan Franzen, author of the Corrections, winner of the National Book Award.
Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an award-winning American historical novelist.
Robert Frost, (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently used themes from rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.
Ernest J. Gaines (b. January 15, 1933), a prominent African-American fiction writer, is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gibson, William. (born March 17, 1948(1948-03-17), Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term cyberspace in 1982,and partly because of the success of his first novel, Neuromancer, which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication
Allen Ginsberg. American Poet. Biography, interviews, dedications, links, bibliography. Texts of Howl, I & II, Kaddish, Part I, A Supermarket in California . Academy of American Poets
Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award in 2002.
Gogol, Nickolai (Nikolay (Vasilyevich). (April 1, 1809 – March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature. The novel Dead Souls (1842), the play Revizor (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) count among his masterpieces.
William Golding - Home Page...William Golding- Wikipedia...Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies.
Oliver Goldsmith...(November 10, 1730 or 1728 – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). (He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase.)
Robert Graves, (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works including his memoir of the First World war, Good-bye to All That, and his historical study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess. He earned his living from writing, particularly popular historical novels such as I, Claudius, The Golden Fleece and Count Belisarius.
Greene, Graham. (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English playwright, novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.
John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud about the death of his teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor.
David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won many awards, including the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. It was adapted for a 1999 film of the same title, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Ethan Hawke.
Mark Haddon is a novelist and poet, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 - February 1, 1977) was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels throughout the mid-twentieth century.
Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest, The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels had on film, Hammett has been credited with the invention of modern American hardboiled detective novel.
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
Thomas Hardy Resource Library. Texts, biography, background, commentary.
Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater.
Bret Harte. Online texts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne ...July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history.
Shirley Hazzard (born 30 January 1931) is an author of fiction and non-fiction...Hazzard is best known as the author of four novels and two collections of short fiction, a body of fiction as distinguished as it is small.
Anthony Evan Hecht, (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004), was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.
Heinlein, Robert...Grand Master of Science Fiction....from Wikipedia
Larry Heinemann (b. 1944) is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago. His body of work is primarily concerned with the Vietnam War.
Heller, Joseph. Joseph Heller, an introduction. ...won immediate acclaim with Catch-22. A protest novel underscored with dark humor, Catch-22 satirizes the horrors of war and the power of modern society, especially bureaucratic institutions, to destroy the human spirit.
Lillian Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), and was also a long-time friend and the literary executor of author Dorothy Parker.She was the first woman to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.
Mark Helprin (born on June 28, 1947) is an award-winning American novelist and journalist, best known for his novel Winter’s Tale and his writing for The New Yorker.
Timeless Hemingway - has
grown to become one of the premiere web sites pertaining to the life and
works of Ernest Hemingway. Part of its appeal stems from the fact that its
content caters to a wide and diverse audience from those generally interested
in Hemingway, to students
O Henry - Biography
and Short Stories
Herbert, Frank...(October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, and is widely considered to be among the classics in the field of science fiction.
Herman Hesse Home Page...1946 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Hoffman, Alice. Alice Hoffman homepage
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.
Horace, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is an Tajik-American novelist and physician,who is an ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was a bestseller. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007
A E Housman, ...Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
Hughes, Langston. Langston Hughes, poems and background information. Poets.org
Victor Hugo Website. A website about the life and works of French poet, novelist and playwright Victor-Marie Hugo,
Zora Neale Hurston is probably best known today as the author of THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (1937) and as one of the most prolific participants in the Harlem Renaissance.
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World and other works - Extensive ...Comprehensive information on Aldous Huxley and Brave New World. Including: biography, quotes, bibliography, discussion forum, etc.
Henrick Ibsen. ...(March 20, 1828 – May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama."
John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt, Jr.) is a bestselling American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. All of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies.
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"
Kazuo Ishiguro. Contemporary Writers
Helen Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 - August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
Henry James ...an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works were set in or near South Berwick, Maine, a declining New England seaport town near the Maine border with New Hampshire.
Ha Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won a number of awards for his writing, including the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). Many of his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthologies, and his collection Under The Red Flag (1997) won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, while Ocean of Words (1996) has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award. The novel War Trash (2004), set in the Korean War, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Charles Richard Johnson...American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and cartoonist. Johnson, whose balance of philosophy and folklore has been praised since the publication of his first novel in 1974, gained prominence when his novel Middle Passage (1990) won the National Book Award in 1990.
Samuel Johnson, one of England's best known literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English Literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphorisms. Dr Johnson is the most quoted of English writers after Shakespeare and has been described as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England.
Ben Jonson, was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone and The Alchemist which are considered his best, and his lyric poems.
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
James Joyce, Wikipedia entry. James Joyce: The Brazen Head - - At the Brazen Head, you will find a ball of electronic twine to aid
you in your travels through the labyrinth of Dedalus. Here you will find
information and resources on Joyce and his works, links to other Joyce sites
across the Web, etc.
Franz Kafka,..his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. His stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904–October 11, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his novel Andersonville.
John Keats. John Keats, works online and Keats and events.
Jack Kerouac, Wikipedia entry....Kerouac Speaks... reading (and singing) his prose
Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s.
Sue Monk Kidd, Author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair...is an author who's work focuses on the challenges and victories of women. Her fictional works are wonderful stories.
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled "Trees" (1913) which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.
Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are DREAMCATCHER, ON WRITING, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, BAG OF BONES, THE GREEN MILE, and BLACK HOUSE with Peter Straub.
Barbara Kingsolver...Official website of the author includes book descriptions, guides for discussion groups, audio clips, and a discussion forum
Rudyard Kipling, (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in Bombay, India, and best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills
John Knowles (September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001), b. Fairmont, West Virginia, was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace.
Jerzy Kosinski (June 18, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist. He is best known for his novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), which was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1979.
Jhumpa Lahiri (born1967) is a contemporary Indian American author born in London, England and raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. She currently lives in New York City. She won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Wally Lamb is a nationally honored teacher, critically acclaimed writer and bestselling author. His work includes the #1 New York Times bestseller, SHE’S COME UNDONE
D. H. Lawrence Index Page. ...(11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was a very important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters.
Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work to date.
Madeleine L'Engle: Enter...Official site. Includes news, a bibliography, and a biography
Le Roi Jones. Overview.(Amira Baraka)
Jonathan Allen Lethem, official website,(born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem is also a prolific essayist and short story writer.
Levertov, Denise. Denise Lermontov. Academy of American Poets
Lessing, Doris. Doris Lessing webpage.
Lewis, C. S. Clive Staples (C. S.) Lewis. Into the Wardrobe: a C. S. Lewis web site.
Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters."
Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...Probably the best loved of American poets the world over is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. |