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VI - FAMOUS AUTHORS WEBSITES
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817:
Jane Austen Information Page
Collected here are Jane Austen's
biography and works, including a hypertext marked up version of Pride and
Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989:
The
Samuel Beckett Endpage
Well-organized group of links,
including a short bio, timeline, Beckett Society, and bibliographic information
on Beckett works, criticism and biographies.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689:
Aphra
Behn Page
Compiled by Ruth
Nestvold. Includes
a brief biographical sketch, links to texts and, best of all, secondary sources
available on the Internet, including articles written by the compiler.
The Aphra Behn Society Homepage
Information about the society,
including a directory of members, upcoming events and issues of the Aphra
Behn Newsletter.
Aphra Behn 1640-1689
Brief biographical and
bibliographical information, selected poetry, links to other texts available on
the Internet. Compiled by The Isle of Lesbos. Their server is extremely
slow.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979:
Elizabeth
Bishop: American Poet, 1911-1979
Bibliographical and biographical
information about Bishop, announcements of societies and conferences.
Blanchot, Maurice, 1907-
The Resource Page for Readers of Maurice Blanchot
Includes primary and secondary bibliography,
discussion lists, news and conference information, and links to other Blanchot
pages. Maintained by Reginald Lilly.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-
Jorge Luis Borges: El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan
Includes biography, bibliography,
and multimedia materials.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956:
International
Brecht Society
Links to citations and descriptions
of Brecht materials in many media.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Selected Poems
Includes:
Poems of 1844. These poems are
selections from the 1844 work originally entitled Poems. By Elizabeth
Barrett Barrett, Author of The Seraphim, etc. In two volumes.
Sonnets From The Portuguese.
These poems were originally published in 1850.
Bukowski, Charles,
"Charles Bukowski"
from
Literary Kicks
Hypertextual examination of the
Beats. Includes text of some poems, bibliography, brief biography, and links to
other sites.
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921:
Get
to Know John Burroughs 1837-1921: America's Most Beloved Nature Writer
A hypertext collection of
bibliography, biography, images and quotations, compiled by Walt Carroll.
Burroughs, William S., 1914-:
The Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage
Excerpts of works, news, and sound
files.
The
William S. Burroughs InterNetWebZone
"THE BURROUGHS FILE: An
electronic reference guide to works of William Seward Burroughs, his literary
works, recordings, film, video appearances, samples, and other
publications."
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1878:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll, alias Charles
Ludtwige Dodgson. With illustrations by Sir John Tenniels.
LEWIS CARROLL Home Page
"Welcome to the Lewis Carroll
home page. We hope to provide useful information for the Carroll enthusiast as
well as the novice and all those in between. Cyberspace seems a suitable home
for information regarding a man who didn't want his true identity linked to his
best work."
Includes texts, graphics, and
biographical information.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947:
Willa
Cather.
Includes biography, photos, primary
and secondary bibliography, links to texts online, reviews, and more.
Maintained by Scott Newstrom, Harvard University.
Cavafy, Constantine P., 1863-1933:
Constantine
P. Cavafy
Full text of Cavafy poems in both
English and Greek.
Chekhov, Anton
Pavlovich, 1860-1904:
"Chekhov, Anton P."
From the NYU
Literature, Arts
and Medicine Database, an interesting collection of annotations about the
works of Chekhov, including medical commentary about the events in particular
plays.
The Anton Chekhov Page
A cumulation of Chekhov materials
from a variety of sites around the web.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834:
S.
T. Coleridge
Coleridge poetry, timeline,
bibliography, an online 200-year old dictionary, and other internet aids.
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932:
Hart Crane
Contains information on reference
and research sources and other bibliographic material.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900:
Stephen Crane and The Red Badge of Courage
Sponsored by The Department of
English at The United States Air Force Academy. Includes Crane texts, American
Civil War resources, and conference information.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321:
Renaissance
Dante in Print (1472-1629)
"THIS EXHIBITION presents
Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C.,
Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected
treasures from The Newberry Library."
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870:
" Charles Dickens"
from
The Victorian Web
George P.
Landow, Brown University.
Extensive collection of bibliographical, biographical and critical materials,
analyzing the Dickens' place in Victorian social setting.
The Dickens Page
Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka,
Nagoya University. Includes extensive links to materials from around the Web, including
bibliograpy, texts, biography, discussions, images and more.
Dickens Project
"The Dickens Project of the University
of California is a scholarly consortium devoted to promoting study and
enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens."
Under construction. Will contain
bibliographies, instructional material, and conference information in the near
future.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886:
Emily
Dickinson Journal
Sponsored by the Emily Dickinson
International Society, The Emily Dickinson Journal showcases the poet at the
center of current critical practices and perspectives, providing an ongoing
examination of Dickinson and her relation to the tradition of American poetry
and women's literature. From
Project Muse, a gateway to over 40 Johns Hopkins University
Press's scholarly journals via the Internet's World Wide Web. Available only on
LSU campus or through LSU Unix or Tiger accounts.
Poems
by Emily Dickinson
From Columbia University's
Project Bartleby,
the electronic edition is based on Poems By Emily Dickinson Edited By
Mabel Loomis Todd. Third Series. Boston: Little, Brown, c1896. viii, 200 p.; 18
cm.
H.D. (Hilde
Doolittle), 1886-1961:
H.D.
(Hilda Doolittle) Home Page
Biography, bibliography, events,
and info about the H.D. Society.
Dostoevsky,
Fyodor, 1821-1881:
Dostoevsky: The Website
A nice compilation of information
from around the web, including criticism, bibliography, and chronology.
Eliot, T.S., 1888-1965:
What
The Thunder Said: T.S. Eliot
Includes a list poems, plays,
prose, and essays; allows the user to perform keyword searches in specific
works.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962:
William
Faulkner: American Writer, 1897-1962
A nice collection of
Faulkneriana,
including descriptions of characters and places in and around Yoknapatawpha
County.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940:
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
University of South Carolina.
Includes biography and extensive primary and secondary bibliography. "This
celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald is designed to elevate awareness of a great
American writer and to coordinate all events in 1996 commemorating the 100th
anniversary of his birth."
Fo, Dario, 1926-:
Dario Fo
Information to the
Nobel Prize
Internet Archive, includes links to news stories, etc. about Fo.
(Unfortunately, many of the link have expired.)
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928-:
Gabriel
García Márquez: Macondo
An interesting hypertextual
collection of biography, bibliography, images and criticism.
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cleghorn, 1810-1865:
"Elizabeth Gaskell"
from
The Victorian Web
George P.
Landow, Brown University.
Extensive collection of biographical and critical materials, analyzing the
Gaskell's place in Victorian social setting.
The Gaskell Web
Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka,
Nagoya University. Includes extensive links to materials from around the Web,
including bibliography, texts, biography, discussions, images and more.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"HTML novels, tales, sketches,
including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Life of
Franklin Pierce, Mosses from an Old Manse; life, bibliography, films, operas,
notes, glossary, dates timeline, names, places, web of links; for high school
and college undergraduate; for teachers; free, non-commercial, no ads, but
links to all Hawthorne resources."
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-:
Seamus
Heaney
Poetry Archive,
Sunsite, University
of North Caroline, Chapel Hill.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961:
The Ernest
Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Illinois
This site, maintained by the above
foundation, emphasizes the influence of Oak Park on Hemingway and his impact on
literature. Includes much biographical
information, many pictures, and valuable links to other Hemingway sites.
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962:
Hermann
Hesse
In English and German. Articles
from The Hesse Journal and Hesse Web Magazine along with an
extensive bibliography of secondary materials and news of Hesse events.
Hughes, Ted, 1930-:
Ted Hughes Pages
News, bios, bibliography, images of
covers.
James, Henry, 1843-1916:
The Henry James Review
The Henry James Review brings
together the best contemporary scholarly, critical, and theoretical work on a
major American writer. From
Project Muse, a gateway to over 40 Johns Hopkins University
Press's scholarly journals via the Internet's World Wide Web. Available only on
LSU campus or through LSU Unix or Tiger accounts.
The
Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
Links to
etexts, information about
scholarly projects, filmographies, and discussions.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962:
Jeffers
Studies
Scholarly works about Jeffers,
images, news of events, and a bibliography of secondary works.
Robinson
Jeffers Tor House Foundation
Chronology, bibliography, and
information about "Jeffers Country."
Joyce, James, 1882-1941:
Work
In Progress: A Website Devoted to the Writings of James Joyce
Maintained by Rob Callahan, a Ph.D
candidate at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this site is:
1.
To
provide a springboard to other Internet resources of relevance to Joycean
studies, including e-texts of Joyce's work, articles available through Gopher
or HTTP, and discussion groups (both e-mail and real-time);
2.
To
construct prototype hypertexts of Joyce's works, incorporating glosses and
other resources into the body of the work;
3.
And
to publish a hypertext journal of Joycean scholarship, using current technology
in order to permit critical discourse to assume new forms.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924:
Constructing Franz Kafka
Biographical and bibliographical
information, inlcuding a list of Kafka's own library.
Franz Kafka
Brief biography, links to
fulltext,
bibliography.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936:
"The
White Man's Burden" and Its Critics
Kipling's poem and eleven
anti-imperialist responses to it are included here.
Lessing, Doris, 1919-:
Doris
Lessing: A Retrospective
Lessing biography and bibliography,
plus links to online criticism and evaluation.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955:
Thomas-Mann-Page
In German and English. Bibliography, biography, autobiography
excerpts.
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-:
The
Cormac McCarthy Home Pages
Info about the Cormac McCarthy
Society, previews and excerpts of works, bibliography, and discussions.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891:
The
Life and Works of Herman Melville
Includes biography, bibliography,
and links to full text of Melville works.
Middleton, Thomas D., 1580-1627:
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
Full text of Middleton works,
including hypertext gloss of vocabulary, created by Chris Cleary (ABD,
University of Virginia). Cleary says: "In editing, I've consulted quarto
facsimiles and critical editions when and where available, and I've hypertexted
significant textual decisions, along with glossed words and phrases; so while
these editions are not refereed, a good deal of care has been taken in their
preparation."
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
These poems were originally
published together in the anthology Renascence and Other Poems by Edna
St. Vincent Millay in 1917. From inforM's Women's Studies Database.
Milosz, Czeslaw, 19
Czeslaw
Milosz
Poetry Archive, Sunsite, University
of North Caroline, Chapel Hill.
Milton, John, 1608-1674:
Milton Quarterly
Founded in 1966, the Milton
Quarterly was the first journal to be devoted exclusively to the life and work
of John Milton. It provides an important forum for the community of Milton
scholars by covering the latest developments in Milton studies in four highly
readable issues each year, publishing news, abstracts, notes, articles, lists
of books received, and reviews. From
Project Muse, a gateway to over 40 Johns Hopkins University
Press's scholarly journals via the Internet's World Wide Web. Available only on
LSU campus or through LSU Unix or Tiger accounts.
The Milton-L Home Page:
Devoted to the Life, Times and
Literature of John Milton. Includes
prose, poems, and scholarly articles.
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-:
Native American Authors Project of the Internet Public Library
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.
Morrow, Bradford, 1951-:
Bradford
Morrow
"A Web Del Sol Featured
Writer." Includes bibliography and excerpts.
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-:
Celestial Timepiece: A Home Page for Joyce Carol Oates
Compilation of bibliographical and
biographical information.
Ovid, 43 B.C. - 17 or 18 A.D. :
The OVID Project: Metamorphosizing the Metamorphoses
Developed by Hope Greenberg,
Humanties Computing Specialist, University of Vermont. Sample images of scenes
from the Metamorphoses done by Johann Wilhelm Baur, a 17th century German
artist.
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972:
Kenneth
Patchen Home Page
Includes a timeline, bibliography
of published works, criticism, and recordings, and photos.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990:
Walker
Percy Project
Developed by Henry P. Mills,
provides information about Percy as Artist, Philosopher, Scientist, his Fiction
and Philosophy, and Scholarly Resources and Bibliographies.
Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963:
Sylvia
Plath (1932-1963)
Contains a brief biography,
bibliography of Plath works, secondary materials, and translations.
Poe, Edgar Allen, 1809-1849:
The
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Information about Society events,
but also well-crafted electronic texts of Poe works and links to other Poe
sites.
Pynchon, Thomas, 1937:
Thomas
Pynchon Home Page
Developed by San Narciso Community
College, this page is dedicated to the works and life of Thomas Pynchon.
Robbins, Tom:
The Afterlife: A Tom Robbins Playground
Includes bibliography, newsgroup,
photos, book cover images, excerpts, and MPEG videos.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882:
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A
Hypermedia Research Archive.
Developed by Jerome J. McGann at
University of Virginia. Includes Rossetti poetry, prose, manuscripts,
paintings, drawings, biography.
Rushdie, Salman, 1947-:
Salman Rushdie
Maintained by Subir Grewal, New
York University. Contains bibliography, reviews, interviews,excerpts, and
information relating to the death threats against Rushdie.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616:
The Works of the Bard
An archive of texts gathered from
around the net by Matty Farrow. Some have been marked up in html. Others are
straight ascii. Includes plays and poetry.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Includes plays and poetry. The text
is derived from UNC Sunsite and is not without errors, but otherwise very
useful. Plays and poetry are keyword searchable and also contain hypertext
links to a glossary of Shakespearean word usage.
The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
This site was created by Jeremy
Hylton and is maintained by The Tech, a publication of MIT. The plays are completely linked, but not the
poetry.
Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
This site, created and maintained
by Terry A. Gray, attempts to pull together scholarly (and not-so-scholarly)
Internet resources on the life and work of Shakespeare.
Shelley, Mary
Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Chronology & Resource Site
A detailed chronology, along with
full text of reviews of Shelley's work from the time period and links to other
Shelley sites.
Shelley, Percy
Bysshe, 1792-1822:
Complete
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Electronic text from Houghton
Mifflin edition, 1901 from Columbia University's
Project Bartleby. Inlcudes a
biographical sketch.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586:
SELECTED
POETRY AND PROSE OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
"from
Representative
Poetry On-line. Prepared by members of the Department of English at the
University of Toronto from 1912 and published by the University of Toronto
Press from 1912 to 1967." Very "well-made" electronic texts.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599:
Edmund Spenser Home Page
This page will seek to collect any
and all Net materials pertaining to the life and works of Edmund Spenser.
Richard Bear, at the University of Oregon is the page author.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862:
The Writings
of Henry David Thoreau
This is a project of Northern
Illinois University. Contains essays,
biographical information, bibliographies and links to related sites.
Henry
David Thoreau 1817-1862
This site is maintained by Jone
Johnson and contains bibliographies, commentary, links to other sites, and,
most importantly, links to the full text of many of Thoreau’s most important
works. May take a while to load.
Tolkien, J.R.R., 1892-1973:
Tolkien
Collecting Resources
Maintained by Mike Williams:
"This page was designed for people who collect material related to the
works of J. R. R. Tolkien." Includes information about Tolkien
bibliography, memorabilia, discussion groups and other resources.
Tolstoy, Leo Graf, 1828-1910:
Leo Tolstoy Works--Russian Literature
Complete text in English of many of
Tolstoy’s most noteworthy work, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Graf
{Count} Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
This is a companion site to the one
above. Contains biographical
information plus links to Tolstoy works, images, and criticism.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910:
Ever
The Twain Shall Meet: Mark Twain on the Web
Collection of Twain text in plain
text and HTML.
Mark
Twain
From "The Mining Company"
and Jim Zwick. This page lists an impressive collection of resources by or
about Mark Twain. They range from texts of his books to an analysis of his
character's appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Vonnegut, Kurt, 19
The
Vonnegut Web
This site, created by Chris Huber,
includes biographical details, highlights, and links to other sites concerning
the author of Slaughterhouse Five.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892:
Recovered
Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division. "This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman
Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of
Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. "
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900:
Oscariana
An interesting collection of quotes
by and about Wilde, to be viewed in sequence (no index). " . . . a
subjective visual and textual biography of Oscar Wilde."
Poems by
Oscar Wilde
Electronic text of
Poems
(Boston: Robert Brothers, 1881) from Columbia University's
Project Bartleby
Wilde:
The Story of the First Modern Man
Mainly about this film about Wilde,
but also contains links to other sites, Realaudio files,
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938:
Thomas Wolfe
Photos, information about the Wolfe
Society, bibliography, and North Carolina memorabilia.
\Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941:
Virginia
Woolf Web
Chronology, biography, images,
related historical material such as Bloomsbury links.
Yeats, William Butler,
1865-1939:
Critically Yeats: William Butler Yeats Links and Information Page
A collection of pointers to poetry,
bibliography, and biography from around the Internet.
William
Butler Yeats: Collected Poems
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