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AUTHOR CATALOGS
- Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
- Offers over 4,500 critical and biographical websites about authors, their works, genres, etc., that can be browsed by
author, title, nationality, and literary period. Well-annotated. Nationalities include
American Literature, British Literature, Canadian Literature, French Literature, Italian
Literature, German Literature, Russian Literature, Spanish Literature, Latin
American Literature, Japanese Literature, Chinese Literature, Greek (Classical),
Latin, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Scandinavian, Middle Eastern, Indian, South East Asian,
Caribbean, African, Australian & New Zealandic.
- Books and Writers: Authors' Calendar (Petri Liukkonen, Pegasos, Finland)
- Detailed bio/biblio info on about 1,200 authors. Indexed by author last name
and by birth month. Heavy on Finnish/Nordic authors, but lots of others too.
- Author Webpages (Zeroland: An Arts Directory, NZ)
- Slightly annotated external links to author information for hundreds of authors, listed alphabetically from
Edwin A. Abbott to Stefan Zweig.
- Catharton: Authors Guide (Catharton)
- Authors listed in alphabetical order.
- Author Interviews: Internet Writing Journal.com
- Links to author interviews for about 170 writers, from Elfrieda Abbe to Jane Yolen.
- Center for Book Culture: Interviews with Authors (Dalkey Archive Press)
- Links to interviews with about 80 writers, from Kathy Acker to Zoran Zivkovic.
- Yahoo's Authors Pages
- Huge number of authors listed here, organised by category (Children's, Literary Fiction, Mystery,
Nature Writers, Playwrights, Poets, Romance, Science
Fiction and Fantasy, Travel Writers, Young Adult, etc.) and
simply in alphabetical order of site name, but the quality of the sites isn't
consistent and the links aren't checked frequently.
- Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates (Nobel e-Museum)
- List of winners from 1901-present; click on author for biographical info, Nobel Prize acceptance speech texts, photo, links, more.
- Author Webliography (Louisiana State Univ.)
- Links provided for about 75 classic writers of literature, most of adult works.
- Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary
- Search on the keywords writer, author, poet, etc. Small amount of biographical
data for each of the 28,000 people listed.
- Biography Find
- If you're looking for someone specific, search here for the name. Offers 25,000
brief bios of famous people.
- Black Fiction Writers: A Selected List (Chicago Public Library)
- A list of names only of black fiction writers, by country, in the U.S.A. from Tina McElroy Ansa to Al Young,
and including writers of Barbados, Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, France,
the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya,
Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Martinique, Nigeria, Russia, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
- a.k.a.
- 'Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names,
pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names, etc.' As of Feb. 2006,
listed 11,578 entries.
- Library of Congress Authorities (U.S. Government)
- Search under Name Authority Headings, in this format: Last name, first name.
- Library of Congress Copyright File
- Type in pseudonym and you may get a record that includes the name of the "Author on Copyright Application."
- Pseudonyms (Gladstone Public Library, Queensland, Australia)
- Over 100 authors and their pseudonyms listed alphabetically.
- Historical Novel Authors' Pseudonyms List (Soon-Yong Choi)
- Lists of real names with pen names, in these categories: abbreviated
or single pseudonyms; pseudonym for multiple authors; multiple pseudonyms for an author;
when a simple pseudonym makes a good sense; last name changes (usually due to marriage);
and obvious contraptions or first name changes.
- Science Fiction Author Pseudonyms (CyberSpace Spinner)
- Hundreds of authors' real names listed, with pen names for each.
- Mystery Writers' Pseudonyms (CyberSpace Spinner)
- About 150 mystery writers' real names listed, with pen names for each.
- Roster of Physician Writers (Daniel C. Bryant, M.D.)
- Large list of physician authors from all countries, alphabetically by last name, with paragraph on each, some works listed, and some links.
- Legally Speaking: Lawyers Who Write Crime Fiction (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- List of books by 10 lawyer-authors and a list of 6 other attorney authors (without books listed).
- Anglistik Guide: Anglo-American Language and Literature (State and University Library Göttingen)
- About 825 annotated and ranked author-specific websites, ordered alphabetically by author last name or by nationality: African, American, Australian, British,
Canadian, Caribbean, Indian, Irish, and New Zealand authors.
- American Literature Anthology Writers' Index
- Browse by time period (16th-20th centuries) or alphabetically by author's name. Entries provide
links to info on the author and works, and often a photo. About 350 authors listed.
- British and American Literature from 1800-2000 (literaryhistory.com)
- Links to info about 50 authors from 1800-1899 from Matthew Arnold to William Wordsworth. Also:
Twentieth Century American and British Literature, with
links to about 200 authors, from Chinua Achebe to Louis Zukofsky.
- English Language and Literature Resources Authors Page (Rhodes College - Memphis, TN)
- General literature links, then links to about 50 American and British authors, from Atwood to Yeats.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: British pre-1500 Literature, and following (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering much that other author websites don't, notably critical
essays about various time periods in British literature. Authors are listed in alphabetical order
under discreet subheadings: British
Lit pre-1500; British Lit 1500-1700;
British 18th-Century Lit;
British 19th-Century Lit;
and British 20th-Century Lit.
- Voice of the Shuttle Modern British Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Beckett, Rupert Brooke, Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Robert
Graves, A. E. Housman, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield,
Orwell, Isaac Rosenberg, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas,
Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Auden, Yeats, and more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Contemporary British Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Anita Brookner,
A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Caryl Churchill, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro,
Jane Gardam, Jon Silkin, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Margaret O'Beirne,
Penelope Lively, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Graham Swift, Timothy Mo,
Fay Weldon, and Jeanette Winterson.
- British and Irish Authors on the Web (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan)
- Almost 800 authors listed, over half with links. Covers all time periods.
- British Author Biographies (Incompetech's British Author Series)
- Rather tongue-in-cheek write-ups of about 25 British authors listed chronologically, from Sir Walter 'the Unfortunate' Raleigh
to Charles 'Lewis Carroll' Dodgson.
- Voice of the Shuttle Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Arthurian texts, The Book of Kells, Beowulf, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Boethius, Dante, Mallory, etc.
- Voice of the Shuttle Renaissance and 17th-Century Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Bacon, Bunyan, Campion, Donne, Elizabeth I, George Fox, Robert Herrick, Jonson, Lovelace, Marlowe, Marvell, Milton, More, Raleigh, Shakespeare, Spenser, more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Restoration and 18th-Century Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Behn, Burke, Boswell, Cowper, Defoe, Dryden, Fielding, Goldsmith, Gray, Pope, Sterne, Swift, Wesley, more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Romantic Period Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Austen, Blake, Burke, Byron, Clare, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Keats, Paine, Radcliffe, Shelley, Wordsworth, more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Victorian Period Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Arnold, Bronte, the Brownings, Carroll, Dickens, Disraeli, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, William Morris,
Rossetti, Ruskin, Stevenson, Tennyson, Wilde, and more.
- EW King Library Lit Subject Guide: English Writers (King College - Bristol, TN)
- Links to 55 British writers. Also links to general sites on English Literature.
- North-East Born and Read (North Tyneside Libraries, UK)
- A selection of novels by writers born in the North-East, or with a North-East setting.
About 20 writers listed, from Bonita Brown to Robert Westall, with brief biographical info on each.
- Irish Poetry Page (Dagmar Müller)
- Poems by about 25 Irish poets, with links to other Irish poetry and culture pages.
- Australian Books and Writers (Mareya and Peter Schmidt, Ozlit)
- Many Australian authors listed in alphabetical order, with bio/biblio info and links.
- Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People (Australian School Library Association)
- Mostly juvenile writers. Includes websites and web pages with information on authors and
illustrators of Australian children's and young adult works and a number of adult works of interest to school students.
About 400 authors listed.
- Australian Aboriginal Writers (OzLit)
- Names of about 145 Aboriginal writers, with links to info on about 90.
- Australian Aboriginal Writers (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 55 Australian aboriginal writers, with webcat links. From
Faith Bandler to Galarrwuy Yunupingu. No biographical info.
- Authors and illustrators from Australia and NZ (Sally Odgers)
- About 50 authors and a few illustrators listed, with very brief info and links to home pages
for each. Also links to bookstores.
- Australian Authors (Bundaberg Library, Queensland, Australia)
- Lists about 170 Australian authors by genre: classic writers, popular writers,
Australian sagas, crime writers, fantasy and sci-fi writers, new writers,
and Australian humour. No links or biographical info.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: Australian and New Zealandic Literature (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering critical essays about Australian/New Zealand literature. Fifteen authors are
listed and linked in alphabetical order.
- New Zealand Writers (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 40 New Zealand writers, with webcat links. From
Barbara Anderson to Damien Wilkins. No biographical info.
- Slainte: Scottish Authors
- The HTML version of the Scottish Library Association publication Discovering Scottish Writers,
with "contains all of the biographies of 79 Scottish authors from the past included in the original publication, with appropriate hyperlinked cross-references."
Authors from Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair to John Wilson ('Christopher North').
- Great Scots (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 50 modern Scottish writers, mostly of fiction, with genre
in parentheses, and links to webcat. From Iain Banks (mysteries)to
Christopher Whyte (novelist). No biographical info.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: Canadian pre-1900 and 20th-Century Literature (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering much that other author websites don't, notably critical
essays about various time periods in Canadian literature. Authors are listed in alphabetical order
under 2 subheadings: Canadian
Lit pre-1900 and Canadian
20th-Century Lit.
- Well-Known Canadian Authors (Vernon R.J. Schmid and John Terning)
- Really a 2-page list -- with More Authors
Who Happen To Be Canadian -- of about 50 authors, in alpha order, most with links to more info.
- Littérature québécoise: Auteurs (Claire Fafard)
- In French. Biographical and other information on about 240 québécoise Canadian writers,
from Francine Allard to Pauline Vincent. Most entries link to further info on the authors' works.
- The Canadian Literature Archive: Authors List (CanLit, University of Manitoba)
- Extensive authors list (over 250 listed), from Milton Acorn and Charlotte Vale Allen to Robert L.J. Zenik. Generally provides
one webpage link per author (off-site).
- Saskatchewan Writes!
- Database of approximately 450 Saskatchewan authors, including contact
information, advice to young writers, biographical information,
lists of books and other publishing credits, etc. Browse through an alphabetical listing of
authors, or search specific categories.
- African Canadian Writers (York University, Toronto, Canada)
- Fiction, children's writers, poets, playwrights, etc., from Marie-Céline Agnant to David Woods,
about 135 writers in all. Some entries are simply works lists, but most provide background info. From the same
source, African Canadian Children's Literature,
which provides summaries of about 20 books and information on 15 or so authors.
- French Canadian Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, A Celebration of Women Writers)
- Links --almost all in French -- to info on about 230 French Canadian women writers,
from Francine Allard to Josee Yvon.
- Canadian Writers (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 30 Canadian writers, with webcat links. From
Margaret Atwood to Thomas Wharton. No biographical info.
- Canadian Mystery Writers (Vancouver Public Library)
- List of more than 20 Canadian mystery writers, with slight info on their series/sleuths. Webcat links. Nov. 2001.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: American 1600-1783 Literature, and following (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering much that other author websites don't, notably critical
essays about various time periods in American literature. Authors are listed in alphabetical order
under discreet subheadings: American
Lit 1600-1783; American Lit 1783-1865;
American Lit 1865-1900;
and American 20th-Century Lit.
- Voice of the Shuttle Modern American Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Edgar Lee Masters, the Beat poets,
William S. Burroughs, e. e. cummings, Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa),
Ralph Ellison, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Frost, Lorraine
Hansberry, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Hemingway, Langston Hughes,
Hurston, Jeffers, Kerouac, Robert Lowell, Millay, Vladimir Nabokov,
Anaïs Nin, Dorothy Parker, Ezra Pound, Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein, Wallace
Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Walker Percy, and more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Contemporary American Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Abbey, Kathy Acker, Ginsberg, Angelou, Anne Rice, Amy
Tan, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Beat poets, Dodie Bellamy,
Charles Bernstein, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cynthia
Ozick, Don Delillo, Rita Dove, Johanna Drucker, Bret Easton Ellis,
Welty, William Gass, William Gibson, Gregory Corso, Joy Harjo (Karen Strom),
John Hawkes, Heller, John Cage, Kinnell, Jerzy Kosinski, Ferlinghetti, Audre
Lorde, Rigoberta Menchu, Momaday, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange,
Oates, Sharon Olds, Marjorie Perloff, Pynchon, Tom Robbins, Ron
Silliman, Roth, Salinger, Sexton, Gary Snyder, Stanley Elkin, Susan
Howe, Truman Capote, Updike, Vonnegut, and Alice Walker.
- American Authors on the Internet
- Alphabetical list of about 500 American authors, with links to e-texts, articles, home pages, etc.
- Norton Anthology of American Literature Online Companion
- Brief biographical information for more than 120 authors, divided among 5 volumes in
chronological order (to 1820, 1820-1865, 1865-1914, 1914-1945, 1945
onward). Also provides topic clusters, timelines, quizes, essay questions,
chapter notes, etc.
- American Authors List (Gonzaga University)
- Alphabetical list of about 60 American authors, most with many
annotated links to biographical, bibliographical, and critical works. Quite a few
Hispanic-Americans included. Page designed for Donna Campbell's English 311 course.
- Giacobazzi's American Lit Resources (Frederick Giacobazzi)
- Links to texts, biographical info, literary and historical resources for American literature from
the Colonial period through Modernism [Modernism is not yet available]. Arranged
chronologically by author within each period: Colonial, Federal, Romantic, Realism, Modernism.
- EW King Library Lit Subject Guide: American Writers (King College, Bristol TN)
- Links to about 50 American writers. Also links to general sites on American Literature.
- Voice of the Shuttle American Colonial (to 1800) Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine,
and Phillis Wheatley.
- Voice of the Shuttle American 19th Century Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to info on Alcott, Bierce, WC Bryant, S. Crane, Dickinson,
Douglass, Emerson, Charlotte Gilman, Hawthorne, Irving, James, Jewett, Longfellow,
Melville, Poe, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, Whittier, more.
- The Transcendentalists
- Links to biographical and other info about Thoreau, Emerson, Bronson Alcott,
Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Carlyle, William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing,
Lydia Maria Child, Moncure Conway, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Octavius Brooks Frothingham,
Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, T.W. Higginson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia
Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, Harriet Martineau, Theodore Parker, The Peabody Sisters,
William James Potter, George Ripley, F.B. Sanborn, Walt Whitman, Jones Very, Felix Adler,
Ednah Cheney, Anna Garlin Spence, and others.
Flourished from the 1830s - late 1840s, primarily in Massachusetts.
- Authors and Texts of Transcendentalism (American Transcendentalism Web: Ann M. Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University)
- Links to info about and texts by these authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Margaret Fuller,
Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Orestes A. Brownson, Reverend William Ellery Channing,
William Ellery Channing II, Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, Moncure Conway, George Willis Cooke,
Christopher Cranch, Caroline Healey Dall, John Sullivan Dwight, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Hoar,
Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Parker Peabody, George and Sophia Ripley, Franklin Sanborn,
Ellen Sturgis Hooper and Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Jones Very.
- American Women Writers Index (Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D. - SAC LitWeb)
- Links to web sites on over 60 American women writers: Abigail Adams, Alcott,
Gloria Anzaldúa, Toni Cade Bambara, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Ana Castillo, Rosemary Catacolos, Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes,
Denise Chavez, Mary Chesnut, Sandra Cisneros, Kate Chopin, Lucha Corpi,
Angela De Hoyos, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Jessie Redmon Fauset,
Monserrat Fontes, Zona Gale, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikki Giovanni,
Ellen Glasgow, Erlinda Gonzales Berry, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances E. W. Harper,
María Herrera Sobek, Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Harriet Jacobs, Sarah Orne Jewett,
Nella Larsen, Anita Loos, Audre Lorde, Carson McCullers, Millay, Marianne Moore,
Pat Mora, Toni Morrison, Judith Sargent Murray, Gloria Naylor, Flannery O'Connor,
Dorothy Parker, Ann Petry, Cecile Pineda, Plath, Mary Helen Ponce, Katherine Anne Porter,
Tey Diana Rebolledo, Susanna Rowson, Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Stowe, Teasdale,
Sojourner Truth, Mercy Otis Warren, Welty, Wharton, Phyllis Wheatley, Elinor Wylie,
and Bernice Zamora.
- African American Writers: A Celebration (Middle Tennessee State University)
- List of authors and books (from library catalog) as well as links to websites listing African American
authors, including of authors of black pulp fiction, Harlem Renaissance authors,
authors from various states, romance and mystery writers, screenwriters, etc.
- Writing Black (Andrew L. Graham, Keele University - UK)
- Links to literary and history resources for works by and about African Americans, arranged by
author from Maya Angelou to Malcolm X.
- Biographical Resources for African American Literature
- Lists authors from A-Z (Kimile Aczon to Zane), with author's genre and link or reference source for more info.
- Voices from the Gaps: Names Listing (University of Minnesota)
- Biographical, critical and bibliographical information on over 110 women
writers of color in North America. Also links. Also organised by
by place of birth, racial/ethnic identity (including African American, Asian
American, Chicana/Latina, Arab American, and Indigenous/Native American),
and significant dates.
- African American Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, A Celebration of Women Writers)
- Lots of African American women writers listed, only about 50 with links to biographical info
or online texts, including Ida Bell Wells, Sojourner Truth, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson,
Harriet Ann Jacobs, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
- Harlem Renaissance 1919-1937 (Paul Reuben, Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide)
- Background, works, bibliography, more, for 23 writers involved in the
Harlem Renaissance.
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - NY Public Library)
- Brief biographies, and e-texts, for 37 writers from Octavia V. Rogers Albert to Phillis Wheatley.
- African American Authors (Kari Moore, Morton Grove Public Library, IL)
- Compiled July 2001. Almost 25 authors listed, with suggested titles.
- African American Authors (Dougherty County Public Library, Albany GA)
- List of about 45 authors in alpha order, with webcat links, from Maya Angelou to Al Young. No biographical info.
- MystNoir: African American Mysteries: Authors/Characters (MystNoir)
- "Please note that not all authors listed on this site are African-American. However,
all listed authors have an African-American character." Sleuths, book titles, and authors listed by type of sleuth:
amateur, private eyes, police officers and detectives, British sleuths, as well as a short
listing of suspense/thriller titles and authors.
- African American Mystery Writers (Oshkosh Public Library, WI)
- 4-pp. PDF file listing writers and books. No biographical info.
- Arab American Literature Spans a Century (Elmaz Abinader)
- Lengthy text on Arab American writers, with some background on Ameen Rihani,
Khalil Gibran, Mikhail Naimy, Elia Abu Madi, Samuel John Hazo, D.H. Melhem, Etel Adnan,
Gregory Orfalea, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mona Simpson, Joseph Geha, Diana Abu-Jaber,
and a few others.
- Asian American Writers: A Selected List (Chicago Public Library, IL)
- Long list of works by a variety of Asian American authors and
poets. Thai American author Somtow Sucharitkul and Japanese American novelist John Okada are among
those included. Anthologies listed at the bottom of page.
- A Celebration of Women Writers: Jewish Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
- Hundreds listed, most with links, from Dorit Abusch to Rose Zwi.
- Jewish Writers of the 20th Century
- Simply an A-Z list of dozens of 20th-century Jewish writers. (You can buy the book of the same name, published 2003,
from this website.)
- Chicana Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, A Celebration of Women Writers)
- Links to info on about 20 chicana writers, including Ana Castillo,
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Pat Mora, and Lorna Dee Cervantes.
- Native American Authors (Internet Public Library)
- Links to about 400 Native American authors (most contemporary). Browse alphabetically by
author, title, or tribe.
- Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (Karen Strom)
- Strom has created pages for over 70 Native American writers (emphasising poets) that contain a photo,
a page about the writer's life and works, and links to online works.
- Native American Women Playwrights
- The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Native women
playwrights of the Americas; this page provides tribe name and
list of plays for almost 20 women.
- Guide to Santa Barbara Authors and Publishers (University of California at Santa Barbara)
- In alaphabetical order by author name. Provides author name, birth/death dates,
brief identifying information, bibliography, print references.
- Marin County Authors (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- List of hundreds of authors, with webcat links, birthdates, town of residence/birth within Marin county,
type of writing, and website links.
- Connecticut Authors Past and Present (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Lists over 65 authors, with town of residence and brief bio-biblio information.
- Florida Mystery Writers (Murder on Miami Beach bookstore)
- Bio-bibliographical information for about 55 Florida mystery writers, including Randy Wayne White,
Barbara Parker, Carl Hiassen, Jessica Speart, P.J. Parrish, Nancy Pickard, Edna Buchanan,
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, others.
- Illinois! Illinois!: Author List (Thomas L. Kilpatrick and Patsy-Rose Hoshiko)
- Not strictly Illinois authors, but an excellent, huge list
of works of fiction about Illinois or set in Illinois; many of the
authors are considered Illinois writers. The list was first published
in 1979 under the title, Illinois! Illinois! An Annotated Bibliography
of Fiction; that book contained 1554 entries, and this online
version has an additional 679 entries. Also browsable by title, subject,
and chronology. Click on letter of the alphabet to find authors.
- Illinois Fiction and Fiction Authors (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Lists about 45 titles, with author, author's Illinois hometown or place of residence,
and summary for each book. No additional author information or links. Also,
Illinois Mysteries and Mystery Authors,
with 43 titles; Illinois Romance and
Romance Authors with 19 titles; Illinois Science Fiction and Science
Fiction Authors with 16 titles; and Illinois Classics and Classic Authors
with 24 titles.
- Kansas Authors Database (Kansas Center for the Book / Manhattan Public Library and North Central Kansas Public Libraries)
- Alphabetical list of authors and illustrators, with name, links to email/website, location, genre,
and sometimes brief biographical info.
- KYLIT: A Site Devoted to Kentucky Writers
- Biographical essays on 31 Kentucky writers, with focus on their relationship to the state. Browse
alphabetically or chronologically.
- Maine Writers Index (Waterboro Public Library - Maine)
- Biographical and bibliographical information for about 365 Maine writers, with links. Browse alphabetically or
search.
- Minnesota Author Biography Project (Minnesota Historical Society)
- Links for a number of writers, as well as bibliographies of: Books set in Minnesota,
Minnesota Cookbooks, and Minnesota Nature Authors.
- Minnesota Authors (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- Simply a list of about 95 Minnesota authors, some of which note genre of author's books.
- Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers
- Almost 300 writers listed, from classic to contemporary, but only about 140 with hypertext
essays written (as of 2/2003). The essays are great, though! Lots of info: bibliographies,
biography, criticism, and links to other sites. Nice site. Also a
'On this day in Mississippi literary history' feature.
- Mississippi Writers and Musicians Home Page (Starkville High School, Starkville, MS)
- Biographical and bibliographical information for about 190 Mississippi authors of all periods.
Detailed bibliographies. Links. From Margaret Walker Alexander to Stark Young. Other writers listed
as yet without entries.
- Missouri Authors (Missouri Center for the Book)
- Directory has information "on more than 300 authors currently
living and writing in Missouri." Browse by last name, search by keyword, or search by audience,
county of residence, or genre. Entries include list of publications, county of residence,
genre, audience.
- North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (Duke Univ. Women's Studies)
- "An alphabetical list of women who have lived in North Carolina and written fiction, drama, poetry,
and/or collected folktales. Included are the titles and earliest publication dates for literary,
autobiographical, and non-fiction monographs published by each author."
Also genre, geographic, chronological, and culture indexes.
- Northwest Mystery Writers (Northwest Crime Scene)
- Varying kinds of info on about 30 northwest U.S. mystery/crime writers.
- Pennsylvania: By the Book
- Essays about 20 Pennsylvania authors, written by students. From Donald Barthelme to Owen Wister.
- Guide to Life and Literature in the Southwest
- The full text of a 1952 book written by Frank J. Dobie, with 35 chapters entitled
"Poetry and Drama," "Range Life," "Coyotes, Lobos, and Panthers," and so
on. Each chapter has introduction to the subject matter, then a (non-hypertext) list of writers
related to the chapter topic. Interesting.
- San Antonio Writers (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Lists hundreds of authors in alpha order, with titles. No additional information.
- South Dakota Literary Map (South Dakota Council of Teachers of English)
- 'Authors who reflect something significant about the South Dakota identity.'
Sections: Authors on the Map, Especially for Young Readers, Journalists,
Memoirs and Human Interest, Poets and Playwrights, Visitors with Insight,
Bibliographers and Other Links, Explore Your Region, Lesson Plans.
- Contemporary Southern Fiction Writers (Dougherty County Public Library, Albany GA)
- List of about 35 authors in alpha order, with webcat links, from Madison Smart Bell to Eudora Welty. No biographical info.
- Wisconsin Women Writers of Adult Fiction and Poetry, 1962-1992 (Maureen Welch, Univ. of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office)
- Lists 123 Wisconsin women writers, including place of residence,
brief biographical info, some works. Also lists playwrights and non-fiction writers.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: African Literature (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering critical essays about African literature. Nine authors are
listed and linked in alphabetical order.
- African Writers: Voices of Change (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)
- Seventeen authors from Achebe ot Tutuola. Biographical info and works lists.
- Index and Database on Chinese Writers
- Alphabetical list of over 500 Chinese writers, many with short bio and list of works.
- South Asian Women Writers (The Univ. of Maryland)
- Information for about 75 south Asian women writers, many with photos and links. Also,
Books By and For
South Asian Women, a listing by genre of authors and works (briefly summarised)
relevant to the topic.
- Home of Egyptian and Arab Authors on the Web (Arab World Books)
- Biographical entries on over 50 writers from Palestine, Egypt, Lybia, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
- Iranian Women Poets
- Extensive background on and a poem by these poets: Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani,
Shahnaz A'lami, Meymanat Mirsadeghi, Zhaleh Esfahani,
Zhila Mosa'ed, Shadab Vajdi, and Mina Asadi.
- Jewish Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, A Celebration of Women Writers)
- Many writers listed but online links provided for only about 25, including Bella Abzug,
Emma Lazarus, and Edna Ferber.
- Poets From Palestine
- Some biographical information on these poets, accompanied by a poem in English or
Arabic: Ibrahim Tukan, Abdelrahim Mahmud, Abdelkarim Al-Karmi (Abu Salma),
Mahmud Darwish, and Kamal Nassir.
- Indian Authors (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 40 authors of Indian descent, with webcat links. From Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen to
Rabindranath Tagore. No biographical info.
- Nordic Authors (Project Runeberg)
- "Continuously updated database of more than 12,000 authors and other relevant people from
the Nordic countries, including hundreds of detailed biographies." Identifying
info is in English; links and further info might be in Swedish, Danish, English, etc. Excellent
resource for Nordic literature.
- Nordic Authors Index (Kuusankoski Public Library - Finland)
- One-page biographic and bibliographic essays on about 150 Nordic authors.
- The Danish Literature Information Centre: Author Profiles
- Profiles, portraits, article links, more, for over 55 Danish authors.
- Danish Authors, pre-1900 (Kangelige Bibliotek)
- About 25 writers listed and linked here.
- Modern Finnish Authors
- Brief biographical info, bibliography, text excerpt, references, etc. for about 35
modern Finnish authors, from Kari Aronpuro to Sirkka Turkka.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: French Literature Pre-1500 and following (Internet Public Library)
- Well-organised, annotated links, offering much that other author websites don't, notably critical
essays about various time periods in French literature. Authors are listed in alphabetical order
under discreet subheadings: French Lit Pre-1500;
French Lit 1500-1600;
French Lit 1600-1789;
and French Lit 1789-1900;
and 20th-Century French Lit,
with links to more than 25 authors.
- German Authors and Movements (Swansea Univ. German Links)
- Links to info on about 150 German authors.
- About.Com - French Writers (About.Com)
- Annotated links for 17 French writers, as well as a link to About.Com's French Literature
resources. Beware pop-up ads.
- Literatura Argentina Contemporánea: Escritores
- In Spanish. Biographical info on Argentinian authors, with texts listed and linked. About 90 writers,
including José Bianco, Jorge Luis Borges, Teresa Caballero, Julio Cortázar,
María E. de Miguel, Rodrigo Fresán, Luis Gusmán, Leopoldo Marechal,
Alicia Partnoy, Manuel Puig, Ernesto Sábato, María Elena Walsh, more.
- Directory of Writers in Mexico
- This is the English version of the site; also available in Spanish. Mexican authors
in alphabetical order, most with links to a paragraph of identifying information and
a list of works.
- la Página de Arte y Literatura de Guatemala
- In Spanish (but you can translate pages using AltaVista's Babel Fish). Info on
"the three great" authors of Guatemala (Miguel Angel Asturias, Luis Cardoza and Aragón,
and Augusto Monterroso), and info on about 120 more authors listed by
periods (colonial, neoclassic, romantic). Some texts online.
- Famous Hispanic Writers
- Bios and photos on over 25 writers from Vicente Aleixandre to Mario Vargas Llosa.
- A Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
- Huge list of texts by women writers, browsable by century, country, ethnicity,
name, as well as links to numerous specialty collections of litle-known women writers.
Under the 17th-century section, about 50 writers listed with links
(to online texts, bios, identifying info), and about 150 names listed without links.
Spans all time periods and nationalities. Also offers bibliography lists.
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Authors
- Links for over 200 female authors divided between pre-20th-century and 20th-century, in alpha order.
- Women Mystery Novelists: A Selected Annotated List (Helene Androski, Univ. of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office)
- Three-part, annotated, text bibliography. Three sections are Mean Streets (gritty realism - 27 writers),
Tea at the Vicarage (feature a minimum of violence - 30 writers), and
Making a Statement (mystery fiction used to comment about
social or environmental issues as well as to entertain - 27 writers).
Author and nationality, series character, setting, time period, title/year of first book in series.
- Wisconsin Women Writers of Adult Fiction and Poetry, 1962-1992 (Maureen Welch, Univ. of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office)
- Lists 123 Wisconsin women writers, including place of residence,
brief biographical info, some works. Also lists playwrights and non-fiction writers.
- Women Romantic Era Writers (Adriana Craciun - University of Nottingham, UK)
- Arranged alphabetically by author, links to web pages, criticism, and, mostly, texts, by over 75
women writers of the Romantic period.
- South Asian Women Writers (The Univ. of Maryland)
- Information for about 75 south Asian women writers, many with photos and links. Also,
Books By and For
South Asian Women, a listing by genre of authors and works (briefly summarised)
relevant to the topic.
- North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (Duke Univ. Women's Studies)
- "An alphabetical list of women who have lived in North Carolina and written fiction, drama, poetry,
and/or collected folktales. Included are the titles and earliest publication dates for literary,
autobiographical, and non-fiction monographs published by each author."
Also genre, geographic, chronological, and culture indexes.
- ChickFic (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 35 writers of chick fiction (aka chick lit), with
nationality in parentheses, and links to webcat. From Jessica Adams (Australia)
to Madeleine Wickham (UK). No biographical info.
- Canadian Women Who Write Mysteries (Vancouver Public Library)
- List of more than 20 female Canadian mystery writers, with slight info on their series/sleuths. Webcat links.
- Roman Poets (About.com)
- Links to information on Roman poets: Catullus, Ennius, Juvenal,
Ovid, Propertius, Sulpicia, Tibullus, Vergil, Plautus,
Terence, Lucilius, and Horace.
- Latin Authors on the Web (CLASSICA)
- Links to online information on over 75 Latin authors from Agnellus of Ravenna to Vitruvius.
- Greek Authors on the Web (CLASSICA)
- Links to online information on about 70 Greek authors from Aeschylus to Xenophon.
- Voice of the Shuttle Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Arthurian texts, The Book of Kells, Beowulf, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Boethius, Dante, Mallory, etc.
- Libyrinth Archives: Authors Pages
- OK, this is an unusual site, but if you're looking for info on one of 25 twentieth-century
experimental writers (a criterion of which is that they write with "a density of style
that is multi-layered with allusions" to their own and others' works), then you've come to
the right place. Those authors are: Abé, Ballard, Banville, Barth, Barthelme, Beckett,
Borges, Burgess, Angela Carter, Dick, Eco, Gaddis, García Márquez, Hawkes,
Joyce, Lem, Levi, Lovecraft, Ondaatje, Peake, Perec, Pynchon, Queneau, Robbe-Grillet, and
Winterson.
- Contemporary American Literature: Authors and Their Works (Mary Klages, University of Colorado)
- "This web page contains links to websites for the time period
encompassing the late twentieth century in American Literature. ... Within the category of Authors and their Works, you
will find an alphabetical listing of the authors; listed under the authors' names you will
find web pages devoted to the individual authors (author pages), online texts, and
criticism and reviews when available." About 75 authors listed,
from Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton to the Grateful Dead, Michael Mollo, Johanna Drucker,
Kathy Acker, John Cage, Brett Easton Ellis, etc.
- Postmodern is/in Fiction: a site dedicated to exploration of contemporary writers (Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College, CA)
- Essays on a handful of pomo authors: Kathy Acker, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Gabriel García Márquez,
William Gibson, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Salman Rushdie.
- Fiction of Postmodern America: Links for Course Authors and Other Contemporary Authors (T.V. Reed, Washington State University)
- Links to information for about 20 post-modern writers from Kathy Acker to Gerald Vizenor,
and additional info on S/F & Cybergrrls, The Beats, Women Writers of Color,
and Cyberbarrio.
- ENL 424: Pop Goes Elitism: Postmodern Discourses in the U.S.: Authors List (Rosemary Weatherston, University of Detroit-Mercy, MI)
- Annotated links to biographical info, interviews, texts for 6 postmodern authors: Paul Auster,
Phillip K. Dick, William Gibson, Arturo Islas, Shelly Jackson, and Jamaica Kincaid.
- Voice of the Shuttle Renaissance and 17th-Century Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Bacon, Bunyan, Campion, Donne, Elizabeth I, George Fox, Robert Herrick, Jonson, Lovelace, Marlowe, Marvell, Milton, More, Raleigh, Shakespeare, Spenser, more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Restoration and 18th-Century Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Behn, Burke, Boswell, Cowper, Defoe, Dryden, Fielding, Goldsmith, Gray, Pope, Sterne, Swift, Wesley, more.
- Voice of the Shuttle Romantic Period Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Austen, Blake, Burke, Byron, Clare, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Keats, Paine, Radcliffe, Shelley, Wordsworth, more.
- Women Romantic Era Writers (Adriana Craciun - University of Nottingham, UK)
- Arranged alphabetically by author, links to web pages, criticism, and, mostly, texts, by over 75
women writers of the Romantic period.
- The Transcendentalists
- Links to biographical and other info about Thoreau, Emerson, Bronson Alcott,
Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Carlyle, William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing,
Lydia Maria Child, Moncure Conway, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Octavius Brooks Frothingham,
Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, T.W. Higginson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia
Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, Harriet Martineau, Theodore Parker, The Peabody Sisters,
William James Potter, George Ripley, F.B. Sanborn, Walt Whitman, Jones Very, Felix Adler,
Ednah Cheney, Anna Garlin Spence, and others.
Flourished from the 1830s - late 1840s, primarily in Massachusetts.
- Authors and Texts of Transcendentalism (American Transcendentalism Web: Ann M. Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University)
- Links to info about and texts by these authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Margaret Fuller,
Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Orestes A. Brownson, Reverend William Ellery Channing,
William Ellery Channing II, Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, Moncure Conway, George Willis Cooke,
Christopher Cranch, Caroline Healey Dall, John Sullivan Dwight, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Hoar,
Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Parker Peabody, George and Sophia Ripley, Franklin Sanborn,
Ellen Sturgis Hooper and Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Jones Very.
- The Victorian Web: Authors (George Landow, Brown University)
- Biographical info, list and links to texts, and theory/criticism/context for these period writers:
Harrison Ainsworth, Matthew Arnold, Max Beerbohm, Annie Besant, Anne Brontë,
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning,
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Hall Caine, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Hugh Clough,
Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Marie Corelli, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George du Maurier,
George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Arthur Henry Hallam, Thomas Hardy,
William Ernest Henley, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Macdonald, George Meredith,
John Stuart Mill, William Morris, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Walter Pater, Charles Reade, G.W.M. Reynolds,
Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Sharp (Fiona MacLeod),
Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds,
Arthur Symons, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, W. M. Thackeray, James Thomson,
Anthony Trollope, Mary Augusta Ward, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Wratislaw,
and some pre-Victorians.
- Voice of the Shuttle Victorian Period Authors List (Alan Liu)
- Links to Arnold, Bronte, the Brownings, Carroll, Dickens, Disraeli, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, William Morris,
Rossetti, Ruskin, Stevenson, Tennyson, Wilde, and more.
- Pre-Raphaelitism in Poetry (George Landow, The Victorian Web)
- Overview of Pre-Raphaelite poets, and those whom they influenced, and links
to biographies, texts, and theory for Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Meredith,
William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Children's Literature Web Guide Authors/Illustrators List (Univ. of Calgary)
- The premier site. Lots of info about individual kids' authors and illustrators, book series, folktales, and links to sites with other
author lists.
- Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature - Authors List
- Extensive, lightly annotated list of children's authors and illustrators.
- Authors Among Us Home Page: Librarians Who Are
Authors of Children's & Young Adult Literature (Ravenstone Press)
- Links to author websites for about 35 librarian/authors as well as questionnaire answers.
Many more listed without links.
- Pronouncing Dictionary of [Children's] Authors' Names (Main Street Middle School - Monterey, CA)
- Alphabetical list of children's authors, with notes on how to pronounce names.
- Texas Children's Authors and Illustrators (Cynthia Leitich Smith - Children's Literature Resources)
- A collection of links to children's author and illustrator web sites and pages.
35 authors/illustrators listed.
- ChickFic (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 35 writers of chick fiction (aka chick lit), with
nationality in parentheses, and links to webcat. From Jessica Adams (Australia)
to Madeleine Wickham (UK). No biographical info.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Includes World Wide Study Bible, over 35 sermons from Early Church Fathers,
an Author Index for non-fiction works (about 80 authors) and for fiction
works (4 authors), almost all authors of Christian classics, not current writers.
Also links to hymns, Bible dictionaries, and Bibles.
- Christian Authors (Dougherty County Public Library, Albany GA)
- List of about 30 authors in alpha order, with webcat links, from June M. Bacher to
Lance Wubbels. No biographical info.
- Playwrights (Stetson University)
- Multiple links (not annotated) for about 20 playwrights.
- Native American Women Playwrights
- The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Native women
playwrights of the Americas; this page provides tribe name and
list of plays for almost 20 women.
- The Financial Fiction Genre: Banking & Finance in Fiction (Roy Davies - Univ. of Exeter)
- Sections on Financial Fiction through the Ages (chronological and by author);
Social Commentary and Criticism, and the "Greed is Good" Philosphy;
The Big Bang, Great Crash and the Banker; Finance in other Genres (like
legal fiction, suspense, mystery, sci-fi). Also link to the History of Money.
- Cyclopedia of Ghost Story Writers (Dr Alastair Grey Gunn - University of Manchester, Cheshire, UK)
- Database of information (bibliographic and biographic) on over 100 authors,
from A. J. Alan to William J. Wintle, who have written at
least one published short story with the theme of haunting or
another related aspect of the supernatural during the Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian period. As
a general rule no author born before about 1920 is included.
- Horror Authors (Carrie Carolin, Dark Side of the Net)
- Links to sites for about 100 horror authors.
- Pseudonyms of Horror and Fantasy Writers (CyberSpace Spinner)
- About 40 authors listed, with their pseudonyms. List also indexed by pseudonym.
- Horror Authors (Dougherty County Public Library, Albany GA)
- List of about 25 authors in alpha order, with webcat links, from V.C. Andrews to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. No biographical info.
- Writers of Historical Fiction (Soon-Yong Choi, Univ. of Texas)
- Short paragraph or bibliography, with links if available, for hundreds of historical fiction authors, many flourishing in
the 18th- and 19th-centuries (Edwin Abbott, Gogol, Flaubert, Hawthorne, lots of lesser-knowns).
- Historical Novelists (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 40 writers of historical novels, with webcat links,
from Joan Aiken to Nigel Tranter. No biographical info.
- Magic Dragon Ultimate Mystery Links (Magic Dragon Multimedia)
- As of 2/03, a listing of over 3,000 authors, with linked biographical and bibliographical information for about
1,100 and brief info on most of the others.
- MysteryGuide.Com (Troutworks)
- Alphabetical list of authors, with links to well-written, detailed reviews
penned by the Mystery Guild folks. Almost 500 authors.
- Sisters in Crime: Authors
- Lists about 400 living mystery authors, along with city where each resides, author Web site link, email link,
and list of the author's recent books (with ISBNs). Although the purpose of the site
is to raise awareness of women in the mystery genre field, the Authors list includes plenty of men.
- Mystery and Suspense Writers List (CyberSpace Spinner)
- Not searchable. Browse by letter of the alphabet for author's name. Little
biographical info (birth/death year); bibliography of novels, short stories, etc.;
some info on recurring characters. The same folks offer a Mystery
and Suspense Pseudonym Directory, browsable by author or by pseudonym.
- Deadly Pleasures Authors List (Deadly Pleasures)
- Three lists: American (U.S. & Canadian) Writers, British Writers,
Vintage Writers. Links to one website for each author. About 400 American authors
listed; about 60 British; and about 25 Vintage.
- Mysterious Folks (Overbooked)
- Lists about 15 meta-indexes of mystery authors and links to pages for over 500 individual
writers of mysteries, thrillers, and suspense and crime novels.
- Tangled Web: Mystery, Fantasy, and Science-Fiction Authors
- Links to info on about 500 authors, in alphabetical order.
- Bastulli Mystery Library Index of Authors
- Some biographical info for over 100 mystery writers and crime novelists, primarily Brits,
from Eliette Abecassis to Richard Zimler. Also provides a list of crime novelists
by category: Classic Whodunit, Hard-Boiled, Police Procedural, Caper, Serial Killer,
Cozy, Religious, Private Eye, Espionage, Legal, Non-Fiction Mystery, Psychological,
Political, Ethnic, Thriller, Forensic, and Historical.
- Harriet Lord's Mystery Writers
- Links to home pages for about 125 mystery writers.
- American Crime Writers League Authors Sites (ACWL)
- Links to ACWL members' sites. About 65 authors listed, including Barbara Michaels,
Stuart Kaminsky, Carolyn Hart, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Carole Nelson Douglas, Sharyn McCrumb, etc.
- COZIES: A SELECTIVE LIST (Helene Androski, University of Wisconsin)
- "Each of the following authors wrote (or write) mysteries that contain most of the elements of a cozy: a minimum of violence, sex, and social
relevance; the solution is arrived at by ratiocination or intuition rather than forensics and police procedure (or beating a confession
out of someone); the murderer is indeed exposed and order restored at the end; the hero/ine is honorable and the other characters
(often including the murderer) are well mannered and well-bred (except, of course, the servants); the setting is a closed community
of some sort, such as a village, university, stately home." Lists 60 authors, described their books generally. Not a list of titles.
- Women Mystery Novelists: A Selected Annotated List (Helene Androski, Univ. of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office)
- Three-part, annotated, text bibliography. Three sections are Mean Streets (gritty realism - 27 writers),
Tea at the Vicarage (feature a minimum of violence - 30 writers), and
Making a Statement (mystery fiction used to comment about
social or environmental issues as well as to entertain - 27 writers).
Author and nationality, series character, setting, time period, title/year of first book in series.
- MystNoir: African American Mysteries: Authors/Characters (MystNoir)
- "Please note that not all authors listed on this site are African-American. However,
all listed authors have an African-American character." Sleuths, book titles, and authors listed by type of sleuth:
amateur, private eyes, police officers and detectives, British sleuths, as well as a short
listing of suspense/thriller titles and authors.
- African American Mystery Writers (Oshkosh Public Library, WI)
- 4-pp. PDF file listing writers and books. No biographical info.
- Northwest Mystery Writers (Northwest Crime Scene)
- Varying kinds of info on about 30 northwest U.S. mystery/crime writers.
- Florida Mystery Writers (Murder on Miami Beach bookstore)
- Bio-bibliographical information for about 55 Florida mystery writers, including Randy Wayne White,
Barbara Parker, Carl Hiassen, Jessica Speart, P.J. Parrish, Nancy Pickard, Edna Buchanan,
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, others.
- Canadian Women Who Write Mysteries (Vancouver Public Library)
- List of more than 20 female Canadian mystery writers, with slight info on their series/sleuths. Webcat links.
- British Crime Novelists (North East Lincolnshire Library Service, UK)
- Simply a list of about 100 British mystery writers.
- Mystery Who's Who (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- Handy site. List of about 120 mystery writers, with nationality and sleuth descriptor in
parentheses, and webcat links. From Margery Allingham (UK - classic) to
Margaret Yorke (UK -- private eye). No biographical info.
- Mystery Writers of Oz (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- List of about 20 Australian mystery writers, with webcat links,
from J.R. Carroll to Dave Warner. No biographical info.
- The Poetry Library of Babel (Nihil Interit)
- Links to info on over 700 poets from 50 countries. Not updated since 2/1998.
- 20th Century Poetry in English - Authors (Kobe University)
- Very nicely organised and executed poetry site. Links for about 140 poets of all nationalities and
time periods, from Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) to William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Annotation describes nature of link - biography, bibliography, e-text, criticism, etc.
There's also a useful page of poetry links.
- Poets' Corner (Steve Spanoudis)
- Links to over 6,700 poems by 780 poets (as of 3/03). Author, title,
and subject indexes.
- American Association of Poetry "Find A Poet" Index
- One page of information on life and works for each of about 450 poets (as of 3/03), with links to other sites.
- Modern American Poetry
- Biographical and bibliographical info and links for over 160 American poets.
- Poetry Archive: Poets List
- About 150 -- mostly British and American -- poets listed.
Quite a lot of biographical and bibliographical information for many listings,
most also have photos.
- Electronic Poetry Center: Index to Author Links on the Web (Univ. of Buffalo)
- Links to biographical info, texts, and home pages for over 200 poets, writers, and critic, listed alphabetically by author from Espen Aarseth
to Louis Zukofsky. Some well-known poets, many lesser-known.
- Twentieth Century American and British Poetry (literaryhistory.com)
- Links to info about more than 100 poets, in these subsections: Poetry of WWI, Popular modernism,
High modernism, Harlem renaissance, Formalist poets, Mid-century American poets,
Confessional poetry, Black Mountain poets, Beats and San Francisco Renaissance,
British poetry, the New York School, and Language poetry.
- CMU English Server: Poetry (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Links to info on about 40 poets.
- Poetry Around the World (Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource)
- List of many sites concentrating on the poetry of a particular country,
region, etc., including India, U.K., Australia, Eastern Europe, Libya.
Most but not all are in English. The American sites
are those that focus on a particular region of the U.S. (Appalachia
and the Mid-West, so far).
- Poets Laureates of the U.S.A. (About.com)
- Hypertext list of all the U.S. Poet Laureates, from 1937-present. Beward pop-up ads.
- Iranian Women Poets
- Extensive background on and a poem by these poets: Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani,
Shahnaz A'lami, Meymanat Mirsadeghi, Zhaleh Esfahani,
Zhila Mosa'ed, Shadab Vajdi, and Mina Asadi.
- Bookbug's Romance Author Links (Bookbug)
- Alphabetical list of romance fiction authors with links to over 950 author sites, not annotated.
- Romance Writers of America Authors Links (Romance Writers of America)
- Offsite links for about 400 romance fiction authors, listed alphabetically, not annotated.
- Unknown Romance Novelists (Writepage)
- Women romance novelists from the 1850s-1940s listed,
with anything from identifying info to links. The same source
offers Modern Women's Romantic Fiction, listing
about 100 contemporary romance novel authors.
- Magic Dragon Ultimate Sci-Fi Links (Magic Dragon Multimedia)
- As of 2/03, a listing of over 9,300 authors, with linked biographical and bibliographical information
for over 3,000 and brief notes on most of the others.
- Sci-Fi Authors Site
- Links to many authors pages and some tribute pages, about 1,000 total, arranged in alphabetical order.
No general index, so browsing is letter by letter, which is cumbersome.
- Speculative Fiction Author Bibliographies
- Links to about 265 authors of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, includes children's authors.
- Science Fiction Resource Guide (Chaz Baden)
- Links to web sites for over 250 sci-fi/fantasy authors, in alpha order by author. Description
of most sites is provided.
- Magic Dragon Ultimate Western Links (Magic Dragon Multimedia)
- As of 10/03, a listing of over 970 authors, with biographical and bibliographical information for 85.
- Read 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out: A Guide to Western Authors (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- Lists over 40 authors of western fiction, with webcat links,
from John Blaze to G. Clifton Wisler. No biographical info.
- Western Authors (Dougherty County Public Library, Albany GA)
- List of about 35 authors in alpha order, with webcat links, from Andy Adams to Owen Wister. No biographical info.
- Simon Says Author Appearances
- For Simon & Schuster authors. Search form. Also list of upcoming author events, including what kind of event, what book, and
where the event is being held. Current.
- Authors at HarperCollins
- Provides author info and interviews as well as a search form for author events,
by author, dates venues/media, and state.
- Random House Author Events
- Search author events by author name and state. The Authors
on the Air feature provides a daily-updated list of writers appearing on
radio and TV, online, and in print.
- Celebrity Book Signings and Lectures
- Well-updated site with info on upcoming book events by actors, models, sports figures, politicians, other famous people.
- Romance Writers of America: Author Appearances
- Use form to search for authors appearing in person, on-line, or on the media.
- Readings in Boston (The Boston Globe)
- Upcoming author readings in Boston.