Edward Abbey

Abbey's Web (Sweden)

Extensive and searchable site, including an introduction, biography, selected bibliography (no annotations), articles, quotations, and a mailing list.

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken Study Journal

Bibliography, selected E-texts, links, and information on the journal. Busy graphics are distracting.

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

A fan site, with a brief biography, links, and E-texts.

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Foundation

"A non-profit trust that helps writers." Includes Anderson biography and chronology.

Isaac Asimov

Asimov Online

Miscellaneous information on Asimov, including several lists of his thousands of publications.

Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein Page (Buffalo)

Biography, bibliography, essays, audio files, and E-texts.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce, Forked Tongue (Keele, UK)

"The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his Devil's Dictionary, using hypertext language to create a fiendish translation of the life and works — and humour — of this acidic satirist and adventurer."

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (Barbara Page, Vassar)

Biography, bibliographies, information on library collections, announcements, calls for papers, and a few links.

Paul Bowles

The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site

Biography, photographs, bibliography of works, and interviews.

Pearl Buck

Pearl S. Buck (Peter Conn, Penn)

Extensive site by an authority on Buck, containing a biography, photographs, excerpts from her works, a secondary bibliography, and information on the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.

Charles Bukowski

charles bukowski: these words I write keep me from total madness (UNC)

A selective bibliography of works by and about Bukowski.

buk's page

Brief biography, list of works, and ordering information for books.

William S. Burroughs

The William S. Burroughs Files

Bibliography, links, and miscellaneous information.

Truman Capote

Truman Capote Page (Bohemian Ink)

Brief bio, filmography, and a few links.

Jim Carroll

CATHOLICBOY.COM: The Jim Carroll Website (Cassie Carter)

A general overview of Carroll and his works, including bibliographies and tour dates. Very thorough.

Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Page (Phil Carson)

Selected bibliography and a few links.

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks)

Brief hypertext biography, interviews, and links.

Willa Cather

Willa Cather Electronic Archive (Brett Barney, Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln)

An impressive collection of material on Cather and her times, including reliable annotated E-texts, a biography, bibliographies, illustrations, and links. Very well done.

Willa Cather Page (Scott Newstrom, Harvard)

Biography, bibliographies, quotations, and events.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive

Offers E-texts, reviews, bibliography, and biography.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (Stephanie Browner and students, Berea College)

A collaborative site on Chesnutt, including many E-texts (some hard to find in print), a biography, a primary bibliography, essays on historical contexts, and links. Well done.

James Fennimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper Society (CMSU)

Links and information on the Society.

James Fenimore Cooper Society Home Page

Extensive site on Cooper's life and works. Very impressive.

Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley Page (Andrew L. Graham, Keele Univ.)

Very, very brief introduction with some links and E-texts.

Felix Octavus Carr Darley

Felix Octavus Carr Darley (1821-88): America's First Illustrator of Note, & Victorian American's Most Famous Illustrator

Information on the illustrator of works by Dickens, Irving, Poe, Longfellow, Cooper, and others.

H.D.

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Home Page

Brief biography, primary and selective secondary bibliographies, and a newsletter.

Don DeLillo

The Don DeLillo Society

Information on the Society, with a bibliography and annotated links.

Thinking about DeLillo's Libra (Philipp Schweighauser, Univ. of Basel)

Interactive pedagogy on the novel, with "tasks" and study questions.

Thinking about DeLillo's White Noise (Philipp Schweighauser, Univ. of Basel)

Interesting and sophisticated interactive pedagogy site, with a series of "tasks" and questions on the novel. Answers are sent to Schweighauser.

Emily Dickinson

Dickinson Electronic Archives (Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, and Marta Werner, Virginia)

An extensive and scholarly collection of Dickinson resources.

Theodore Dreiser

The International Theodore Dreiser Society (UNC Wilmington)

Information on the Society and links to a discussion group.

W. E. B. DuBois

Works by W. E. B. Du Bois (Steven Hale, DeKalb)

Links to primary texts on the Web.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage (Thomas M. Columbus, Univ. of Dayton)

Photographs, biography, E-texts (and audio files), and links.

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Henry Potts, UCLA)

A thorough list of mostly primary works, with a chronology and links.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extensive set of Emerson links.

Anita Endrezze

Anita Endrezze (Karen M. Strom, UMass)

Short biography, E-texts, paintings, and events.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner on the Web (Ole Miss)

Plot summaries, biography, information on Oxford, MS, filmography, links, and events.

The William Faulkner Society

Information on the Society, and a few links.

Rudolph Fisher

Rudolph Fisher Newsletter

Information on the Harlem Renaissance author.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Babylon Revisited: A Long Expostulation and Explanation (Thomas A. Larson)

Full text of an M.A. thesis on Fitzgerald. Includes useful annotated bibliographies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Home Page (SC)

Extensive and impressively scholarly set of Fitzgerald resources, including biography, bibliographies, events, a chronology, quotations, and commentary.

John Ford

John Ford's Romantic Afterlife (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam Univ.)

Brief biography and critical overview, with a bibliography of primary and secondary works.

Robert Frost

A Frost Bouquet: An Exhibition in the Tracy W. McGregor Room (Univ. of Virginia)

A highly illustrated exhibition on Frost's life and works, including facsimiles of drafts and published poems.

In Quest of Robert Frost (Katharena Eiermann)

A fan site, with many links (often unscholarly) and a selection of poems.

The Road Not Taken: Robert Frost's Lesser Known Poems (Shefali Tripathi and Anando Banerjee)

A pretty good collection of links and E-texts. A fan site, polluted by irritatingly commercial banner ads.

Robert Frost (Amherst Common)

An extensive set of links, though no original content.

The Robert Frost Web Site

A brief biography, selected poems, and bibliographies — a fairly full primary bibliography, and a very selective secondary one. A fan site.

John Gardner

John C. Gardner Appreciation Page (SUNY Genesee)

A fan site, but with useful links.

Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland (Keith Newlin, UNC Wilmington)

Scholarly information, including E-texts, bibliographies, and links.

Allen Ginsberg

Shadow Changes into Bone (Mongo BearWolf)

"The clearinghouse for all things Ginsberg." A big site containing all sorts of Ginsbergiana, including poems, photos, interviews, articles, parodies, reviews, and tributes.

Frank Harris

Frank Harris (1856-1931)

E-texts, biographical sketches, and links on the notorious biographer and autobiographer.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathanial Hawthorne Society

The Society's website, with information about membership and its Review.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Eric Eldred)

E-texts, biographies, and plenty of links.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A good collection of E-texts and information on the life.

Robert Heinlein

Heinlein Society

Information on the Society, along with some additional information, including a concordance.

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller Page

A few links.

Ernest Hemingway

Timeless Hemingway (Josh Silverstein)

A popular introduction to Hemingway's life and works.

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Home Page

E-texts and links.

William Dean Howells Society (Gonzaga)

Information on the Society, with useful links.

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (Tim Gallaher, USC)

E-texts.

Laura Riding Jackson

Laura (Riding) Jackson Homepage (UNC)

Brief biography (with chronology), primary and secondary bibliographies, and links.

Henry James

The Henry James Review

Information on the Review, with full text available to subscribers through Project Muse.

The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites (R. Hathaway, New Paltz)

Thorough and informative guide to Web resources, including reviews, E-texts, links, a discussion group, and essays.

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Hypertext biographical sketch, with contextual information.

Kerouac Speaks

"Sounds of Jack Kerouac reading (and singing) his prose."

Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle — The WWW Resource

A fan site. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.

Philip Levine

Philip Levine Page

E-texts and a bibliography.

Jack London

The Jack London Collection (DL SunSITE)

A first-rate collection of information (E-texts, biography, bibliographies, images, miscellaneous documents) on London, well organized and presented. O si sic omnes!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Auburn)

E-texts and quotations.

Michael McClure

Michael McClure (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks)

Brief hypertext biography and bibliography.

Herman Melville

The Life and Works of Herman Melville

News, brief biographies and bibliographies, E-texts, and reviews.

Whales in Literature (Keele, UK)

A site on, well, whales in literature.

Arthur Miller

The Crucible Project

Impressive, though geared mostly toward high-school students.

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's Beloved (G. R. Lucas and students, Univ. of South Florida)

A class project, containing original essays, a bibliography, and links. Very well done.

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

Attractive site containing miscellaneous information on Nin.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker Page

A small collection of Parker's poems.

Elliot Paul

Elliot Paul (1891-1958) (Arnold Goldman)

An overview, with a timeline and a primary bibliography.

Walker Percy

The Walker Percy Project (UNC-CH)

Information on the Project and extensive information on Percy.

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Links

Dozens of links.

Edgar Allan Poe

E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore

Extensive information on the Society, bibliographies, short essays, chronologies, links, and an extensive E-text library.

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher

A fan site.

Poe Webliography (Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers Newark)

Extensive and thoroughly annotated guide to Poe resources on the Web, including E-texts and links to other sites.

Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok HomePage (La Sierra)

Useful bibliographies and other resources.

Thomas Pynchon

HyperArts Pynchon Pages (Tim Ware)

Useful starting point for Pynchon links, Web guides, a discussion group, and so on.

Lots of Thomas Pynchon Links (Susan Danewitz)

A big (but unannotated) list of links on Pynchon.

San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Home Page (Pomona)

Impressive conceptual site on Pynchon's life and works.

J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger Page

Very brief biographical sketch, with useful annotated links.

Salinger.org (Stephen Foskett)

Includes "a (somewhat complete) bibliography, information on Salinger's beloved (and loved) characters, opinions, anecdotes, and more."

Anne Sexton

The Anne Sexton Bibliography (Jeremiah Gilbert)

An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works, including not only Sexton's books of poetry but also the first magazine publications of many of her poems. Very handy.

Anne Sexton Home Page (Ari Frankel)

Several poems and photographs.

Thorne Smith

Haunts and By-Paths: A Thorne Smith Tribute Page

List of works and links. Irritatingly commercial.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, including an extensive Gertrude Stein Bibliography (Finland)

A few links and on-line texts.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (Scott Simkins, Univ. of Southern Mississippi)

E-texts, reviews, original essays, links, and a selective annotated bibliography of secondary work.

John Steinbeck: The California Novels

Summaries and publication information on the novels and links.

National Steinbeck Center

Information on the Center; requires Java.

Steinbeck Research Center (SJSU)

Information on the Center, with a list of Steinbeck's publications, a chronology, photographs of Steinbeck's houses.

Wallace Stevens

Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens (Dan Schnaidt, Wesleyan)

E-texts, audio files, photographs, and links.

Wallace Stevens (Al Filreis, Penn)

Extensive information on Stevens, including selections from Filreis's books, Modernism from Right to Left and Wallace Stevens and the Actual World.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (Virginia)

Electronic text of the novel, nestled among very extensive and intelligent contextual material, including reviews, illustrations, historical information, and even video clips of movie adaptations. Impressive from top to bottom. O si sic omnes!

Amy Tan

Anniina's Amy Tan Page (Luminarium)

Interviews, reviews, and links.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Great Thompson Hunt — Hunter S. Thompson, King of Gonzo (Christine Othitis)

An appropriately wacky fan site, including biography, bibliographies, and pictures.

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Reader (Richard Lenat)

Guide to Thoreau, including a general introduction, E-texts, a brief guide to some people mentioned in Thoreau's works, and links to other Thoreau sites.

Thoreau, Walden, and the Environment (Thoreau Institute)

E-texts, biographies, and information on societies devoted to Thoreau and Walden Woods. A good place to start.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain in His Times

"This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated."

Ever The Twain Shall Meet

A fan site, with links and E-texts.

Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web (Jim Zwick)

Miscellaneous Twain resources and links. Requires Java-compatible browser. Polluted by advertising, but otherwise impressive.

Alice Walker

Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Luminarium)

Extensive information on Walker, including biographical sketch, bibliography, interviews, E-texts, and links.

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

"Honoring the life and works" of Warren. Biography, bibliographies, filmographies, and links.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

"An overview with biocritical sources." Chronology, bibliography, photographs, and links. Well organized, but like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.

The Edith Wharton Society Home Page (Gonzaga)

Useful collection of E-texts, links, bibliographies, suggested readings, and tips on teaching. Well done.

Walt Whitman

Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies (Rutgers – Camden)

An original journal of Whitman studies.

Walt Whitman Home Page (Library of Congress)

Images from Whitman MSS, including the notebooks.

The Whitman Project (Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, Virginia)

An extensive "hypermedia environment for studying the works of the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed texts — including proofs and first editions — are stored in the archive, in full color when possible."

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

A brief biography and bibliography, with a few links, on a single page.

Thomas Wolfe Memorial

Official site on Wolfe's house, with information for visitors and a timeline-cum-bibliography.

Thomas Wolfe Web Site (Sharon S. Connelly, UNC Wilmington)

Biography, bibliography, newsletters, photos, and discussion groups.