Literature

Provides biographical information on many talented African-American writers of the 1920s, along with numerous examples of their work.

Links to course materials for a American poetry virtual reality environment. Maintained by Alan Filreis, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

A fledgling site devoted to contemporary Jewish-American authors Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Woody Allen, E.M. Broner, Art Spiegelman, Joseph Heller, Grace Paley, and E.L. Doctorow; contains a biography and list of critical works for each, and links to a bibliography of texts on Jewish-American literature.

An essay from the May 1999 issue of Hispanic magazine that explores and long and rich history of Hispanic literature in the United States; contains a link to well-regarded Latino books.

A brief page that contains biographical information for three noted American playwrights -- Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Lorraine Hansberry -- along with the dialogue from playwright Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes."

A series of Web guides for the 20th century, the guide for each decade include brief facts about the decade and events defining it, as well as links to the notable "Books & Literature" of the time.

A collection of American fiction that attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It features works by well-known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors whose works may have been very popular in their own time. The collection, which is hosted by the Indiana University Digital Library, currently has 1,752 texts by 845 authors.

One of several pages developed by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Covers, for 18th and 19th century American literature, general resources; authors, works, and projects; teaching resources; and journals.

From Bibliomania, descriptive information on the various periods in American literature from early colonial times (1607-1700) to "modern literature," which ends for this offering in the very early 20th century. Includes an extensive alphabetical index of authors and their works.

Includes information on and the writings of a number of America's Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and John Adams. Also, the works of poets Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.