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  ENGLISH: SPECIFIC AUTHOR SITES - Accurate as of July 2007
Specific authors: texts of their work, biographical information, reviews, character summaries, quotes, etc.)

 
 

http://www.louisamayalcott.org/ (Louisa May Alcott)
http://www.louisamayalcott.org/
Biographical information, criticism of her works, and links to news about her books

Judy Blume
http://www.judyblume.com/jb-bio.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald
Biography, quotes, works, chronology, etc

Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html
Searchable site with many full text works and links to information about characters, places, art, etc

Stephen King Web Site
http://utopianweb.com/king
Biography, citations for published book reviews, index to short stories in magazines, links

To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/culture/HarperLee/bio.html
Biography, the novel and film are discussed

E.L. Konigsburg
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/konigsburg.html
Biography, bibliography, interview

Ursula K. LeGuin
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/leguin.htm
Biography, bibliography, interview, reviews, study guides

The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
Definitive site for him--biography, full texts, critical essays

The Life and Works of Herman Melville
http://www.melville.org
Biography, events, etexts, links, and more

Joan Lowery Nixon
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/bio.htm
Biography, bibliography, interviews

The Poe Decoder (Edgar Allan Poe)
http://www.poedecoder.com
Critical essays on life and works

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
http://www.eapoe.org/
General topics, works, lectures and articles on him, subject index, and links

Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher"
http://www.poedecoder.com/essays/usher
Summary, setting, characters, point of view, style and interpretation, theme, related information, text

The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye ’
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger1.htm
Critical essay on the novel

Salinger.org
http://www.salinger.org
Books, missing stories, magazine appearances, biographies, criticism, etc

The California Novels (John Steinbeck)
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/
Information on characters, chapter summaries, and other links

Anniina’s Amy Tan page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan
Collection of links to interviews, reviews, and essays about her works

Mark Twain in his Times
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Interpretative archive that focuses on how his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, and reviewed and appreciated.

The Walt Whitman Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman
Texts of his works, biographical information, contemporary reviews of his works

Tennessee Williams
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/
Texts of his works, biographical information, contemporary reviews of his works


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