Baldwin, James
Works, James Baldwin: Loving and Leaving America, Random House, Inc. Presents James Baldwin, Teacher Resource File: James Baldwin
Capote, Truman
Author's Calendar: Truman Capote, BBS for Capote Readers, Biographical Sketch of Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Truman Capote Forum, Truman Capote: A Black and White Tribute
Chabon, Michael
Works, ESPN Baseball: The Interview - Michael Chabon, Fresh Air: Michael Chabon, Michael Chabon, The Writer's Voice Presents Michael Chabon
Dickey, James
James Dickey, James Dickey American Poet, James Dickey Newsletter and James Dickey Society, Poems by James Dickey, The Life of James Dickey -- January 20, 1997, Wired for Books
Eggers, Dave
Complete Potshot at Dave Eggers, Flak Magazine: Ironic Genius, Guardian Unlimited: You Shall Know Our Velocity, Hipmama: Irony with Soul, Ironminds: Dave Eggers Screwed Me Too, Mighty McSweeney's, Random House: You Shall Know Our Velocity, Salon.com: Dave Eggers, Salon.com: You Shall Know Our Velocity, Slate: Not All Irony Is Created Equal
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama, Interview, Tabula Rasa: The American Psycho Files, Watching Bret Easton Ellis
Harlem Renaissance
About Harlem Renaissance Women - Women's Hist, African American Women Dreaming in Color, Discovering Parallels to Nella Larsen, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937, Nella Larsen Forum, Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After, Rhapsodies in Black, Rudolph Fisher Newsletter, The Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vech
Hurston, Zora Neale
About.com: Zora Neale Hurston, CampusNut.com: Their Eyes Were Watching God, GradeSaver: Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston, Hurston, Zora Neale, Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, The Ledger: Top 50 Most Important Floridians of th, Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) : Teacher Resource
Jackson, Shirley
Works, Fiction: Shirley Jackson, IMDb: Shirley Jackson, Literary Moose: Shirley Jackson, Monstrous Acts and Little Murders, Mundane Evil, Shirley Jackson & The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Bibliography, Shirley Jackson: "Delight in What I Fear", Tabula Rasa: Shirley Jackson, The Haunted World of Shirley Jackson
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird, Author's Calendar: Harper Lee, ClassicNotes: About Harper Lee, Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee AuthorSheet, LiteratureClassics.com: Harper Lee
Mencken, H. L.
Works, American Writers: H.L. Mencken, By His Own Rules, Friends of the H. L. Mencken House, God, Man, and H. L. Mencken, H. L. Mencken Quotes, H. L. Mencken Room and Collection, H.L. Mencken: Two of His Theories, Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), Mencken Collection, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Moore, Christopher
Bookhaunts.net: Christopher Moore, Chris Moore, Chudstories: Chris Moore, Green Man Review: Lamb, Gulfstream!ng: Faith and Fiction, SF Site: Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Agony Column: Fluke, The Agony Column: Practical Demonkeeping, Trickster's Way: Coyote: The Avatar of Irony , Two Headed Cat: Christopher Moore
Oates, Joyce Carol
Works, "Double Portrait" by Joyce Carol Oates, "Marooned in Dallas" by Joyce Carol Oate, "The Little Whip" by Joyce Carol Oates, "This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Wait, BookPage Interview: Joyce Carol Oates, Boston Globe Review: "My Heart Laid Bare", Celestial Timepiece, Celestial Timepiece, Featured Author: Joyce Carol Oates, Granta: "Softcore" by Joyce Carol Oates
Parker, Dorothy
AmericanPoems.com: Dorothy Parker, Bohemian Ink: Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dot City, Here Lies Dorothy Parker, Selected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Saroyan, William
Richard Rodriguez on the writing of William Saroya, The William Saroyan Literary Foundation Internatio, The William Saroyan Society, William Saroyan Foundation, William Saroyan Web Resources, William Saroyan: The Man, the Writer
Sinclair, Upton
Damaged Goods, Damaged Goods, Literature Network: The Jungle, The Jungle, The Jungle, The Machine, The Profits of Religion
Steinbeck, John
Biographies, Works, John Ernst Steinbeck, circa 1960, John Steinbeck Bibliography, John Steinbeck's Pacific Grove, LiteratureClassics.com: John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Fiction and Non-Fiction, The Cannery Row Foundation, The National Steinbeck Center, The Smoking Gun: Archive
Updike, John
As Close as You Can Get to the Stars, Bold Type: The Witnesses, John Updike, John Updike Interview with Don Swaim, Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike, New York Times Life and Times, The Centaurian, The New York Review of Books: John Updike
Vonnegut, Kurt
Bokononism, Kilgore Trout, Campusnut.com: Slaughterhouse-Five, ClassicNotes: Slaughterhouse Five, Deadeye Dick: Kurt Vonnegut Tribute Song, ePostcard, I Love You, Madame Librarian, Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Author Homepage, Kurt Vonnegut Interview with Don Swaim, Kurt Vonnegut on Being a Native Middle-Westerner, Kurt Vonnegut's Art
Walker, Alice
Color Purple, The, Alice Walker, Alice Walker Biography, Anniina's Alice Walker Page, ClassicNotes: Alice Walker, Living by Grace: The Life and Philosophy of Alice
Wister, Owen
History of Owen Wister, Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: There's More to Auth, Short Stories by Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, TNT Learning: The Virginian Educator's Guide
A Princess in Berlin
Online text of Arthur R.G. Solmssen's 1982 novel plays in Berlin at the time of the murder of Walther Rathenau.
American Fiction Prizes
Lists winners of the major American fiction prizes and, where available, the nominees.
Davis, Alan
Editor of the New Rivers Press, co-editor of American Fiction, and coordinator of the MSUM MFA program. Includes biography, sample stories, links.
Elise Ehrhard
Feminist author. Brief information on her writings online and in print.
Lee Smith
Journalist and novelist. Includes sections on her childhood, career and awards.
National Book Awards
The awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature.
O. Henry Awards
Annual collection of the year's best stories published in American and Canadian magazines and written by American or Canadian authors.
Outline of American Literature
By Kathryn VanSpanckeren, a historical account of American literature, including 20th Century prose and poetry. Published by the United States Information Agency.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Affiliated with PEN, the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers to honor their peers.