American Writers
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This site is a frequently updated index of other
sites devoted to American writers, nineteenth-century and otherwise.
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An extensive and well-organized site created by
technical writer and Louisa May Alcott fan Tara Calishain. Take advantage of the site map
which includes descriptions of each page. Students: check out the Internet citation tips
on the "Citation & Source Page."
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Louisa May Alcott
A no-frills, biographical and bibliographical
site about the author of Little Women.
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The John Burroughs Association
This site, created by the John Burroughs
Association (which is headquartered at the American Museum of Natural History), profiles
the activities and projects of the Association and the life of naturalist and writer John
Burroughs (1837-1921), whose own cabin near the Hudson River, "Slabsides,"
became a meeting place for writers, inventors, and environmentalists.
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DAS: Kate Chopin
Part of the "Documenting the American
South" (DAS) database at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries,
this page contains a short biography of Chopin from the Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture, with links back to the DAS digital texts of The Awakening, Bayou
Folk, and A Night in Acadie.
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Stephen Crane: Man, Myth, & Legend
Resources from the University of Texas on the
most important American writer of naturalism.
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Emily Dickinson
A useful site about the poet, her life and
times, with links to over 400 poems available in electronic text form.
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The Society creates a forum for scholarship on
Dickinson and her relation to the tradition of American poetry and women's literature.
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A Web site devoted to the study of Emily
Dickinson and her writing practices. Founded at the first Emily Dickinson International
Society Convention in 1992, the Dickinson Editing Collective believes that the poet did
publish her work, by "distributing it in her letters and in the manuscript books she
made and left for posterity." The Dickinson Electronic Archives plans to reproduce
the poet's work through electronic means, rather than through print translations,
"which erase most of her visual poetics."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Much information on the author of The Scarlet
Letter. Check out Hawthorne's description
of a dinner visit by Thoreau in 1842.
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Site contains biographical information and a
collection of online poetry.
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Lots of useful information and many links;
frequently updated.
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The EAPSB was officially established in 1923 but
traces its roots back to 1865 through four earlier organizations. The Society is a
clearing house for information about Poe's life and work.
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This site by Heyward Ehrlich at Rutgers
University describes itself as "a critical guide to electronic resources for Poe
research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic texts, commentaries,
backgrounds, literary indexes, and search engines." The most comprehensive of several
Poe Web sites.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1898
This site, part of the "Celebration of
Women Writers," has biographical information and other links.
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An excellent collection of Mark Twain links.
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The Archive, located at Berkeley, contains
originals or photocopies of almost every surviving document in Twain's hand, as well as a
vast collection of collateral material. The Archive is home to the Mark Twain Papers and
Project, which is producing a comprehensive scholarly edition of Twain's private papers
and published works.
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Information about Whitman and the Whitman
manuscript notebooks collected in the Library of Congress.
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A hypermedia environment for
studying the works of Walt Whitman, where you will find a database of
digitized images of Whitman's works in original, documentary form. Credits:
Elizabeth Witherell
and Louisa Dennis,
University of California, Santa Barbara Library
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