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African American Writers: Online E-texts
Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers.
American Authors on the Web
A very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples for many of them.
A Celebration of Women Writers
A comprehensive site that lists upwards of 900 American women writers from the country's beginning until the present time and includes links to information on and the works of many of them.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Designed as a complementary resource to the electronic discussion list, T-AMLIT, the archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
Index of Native American Book Resources
Includes extensive links to organizations, online and printed journals, and presses specializing in Native American literature. Also provides links to home pages of Native American authors, and other resources.
Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
A literary metasite containing annotations of sites and articles devoted to literary criticism and information on authors. In addition to 200 American and British authors, more than 50 international authors are featured. The collection indexes over 2,500 resources.
Literary Resources -- American
Annotated links to home pages covering various aspects of American literature, as well as home pages dedicated to more than 50 individual writers and poets.
The Mississippi Writers Page: The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers
Biographies, literary criticism, bibliographies, and other resources about writers of drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have called the state of Mississippi their home.
Native American Authors
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.
Norton Online Resource to American Literature
This online companion to The Norton Anthnology of American Literature (6th ed.) includes detailed information on 160 American writers of drama, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction as well as other resources for students.
Online American Literature Resources
This companion to the Heath Anthology of American Literature contains an interwoven set of resources that contribute to a greater range of knowledge than is possible with conventional textbooks.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Useful to teachers and students around the world with limited access to university libraries and databases, this guide encompasses American literature in various time periods; includes special sections on American fiction, folklore, and African-American writers.
Poets.org
From the American Academy of Poets, this site contains essays and interviews about poetry, biographies, poems, curricular materials, and audio clips.
Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web): American Literature
Extensive lists of annotated and unannotated links designed as a resource for online teaching and learning of American literature. Also includes author chronologies, some basic resources, and reviews of major Websites.
Voces Americanas/American Voices
A highly graphic page based on an exhibit sponsored by the Texas Humanities Resource Center includes and essay on Hispanic American literature as well as a lengthy bibliography.
Voice of the Shuttle
An extensive list of links to American literature resources on the Web by time period as well as information on criticism, courses, journals and conferences.
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Designed primarily for use in the classroom, this collaborative project from the University of Minnesota focuses on the lives and works of women writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers of color in North America.