Literature
The Academy of American Poets
Features a poet index with biographies, photos, and poems.
Especially interesting are the listening booth - an audiotape archive of poets reading their works -
and a truly lively poetry discussion forum.
A Celebration of Women Writers
Lists online resources about women writers including
freely readable, complete, online editions of published books by women. Also
offers browsing and searching of the women writers databases containing 10,347
women authors and 5,320 pages about women authors.
Indigenous Peoples' Literature
A forum for indigenous people worldwide, this site
archives poetry and prose from Native Americans, Native Scots, Australian
Aborigines and many more.
Native American Authors
This website provides information on Native North American authors
with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and
links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal
websites.
Nobel Prize in Literature
A list by name of every winner since 1901. By clicking on each name you can choose from a
fantastic assortment of information about the authors including full
bibliographical information, their acceptance speech (in multiple languages and
in video format), literary lectures and award photos.
Poetry Foundation
Features literary news and short biographies, as well as more comprehensive entries with links to criticism,
sample poems, bibliographies, and links to poetry websites and publishers. Also includes a rhyming
dictionary and reading guides "by poets for poets." The Poetry Tool allows searching by subject category,
title, first letter of first line, occasion, and glossary term (or form--sonnet, haiku, ode, etc.).
Searching by poet features the ability to search by geographic region, school
(Renaissance, Black Mountain, etc.) or period, and more.
Poetry Portal
A supplemental resource to assist students in finding criticism of particular
poems. Additionally, this site assists would-be and established poets with very
comprehensive links in their "chit chat" and competition sections.
Project Gutenberg
Free electronic books in full text! Classic books from the start of
this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, stories by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of
others.
The Pulitzer Prizes
Documents 80 years of American intellectual and artistic excellence in
journalism, letters, drama and music. Samples of winners' writings online as
well as author bibliographies.
Shmoop
Shmoop offers refreshing, deep, plain-spoken study guides and teacher resources
online covering literature, US history, and poetry.
Voices From the Gaps
An Instructional Website focusing on the lives and works of North American
women writers of color. Includes a database of authors, a listserv and a list of
related websites.
Women Writers: A Zine
A modern, snazzy website filled with information about
current and classic literature by women authors. Features book reviews, author
interviews, scholarly archives, a message board, an editor's rant, a listserv
and the opportunity to become a contributing author on the site.
