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Author of the novel "Liner Notes" (2003) and a series of teen fiction titled "The Principles of Love" (2005-).
Held annually on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Program information and author profiles.
Annual festival in March.
Official site for this San Francisco festival for local authors. Includes event and sponsorship information.
Celebrating Nebraska’s literary heritage and contemporary authors. Authors reading from their works, writers' workshops, roundtable discussions, book discussions, awards ceremony, book signings, vendors.
An introductory essay explaining the roots and basic ideas of Transcendentalism.
Includes a biography, photograph, and selected poems.
The Maine Historical Society presents biographical information and a database of poems.
An extensive biography, chat, message walls, comments on Poe's work and links to Poe sites.
The Library of Congress website honors Thoreau with an essay on his literary and philosophical contributions.
Organization to promote Thoreau's life and works through education, outreach, and advocacy. Includes membership information, activities and teacher resources.
Game board created as a way to help his daughters learn history, but developed into a marketable commodity that he hoped would sweep the country.
Detailed review of Twain's life and his attitude toward racial issues.
Detailed Library of Congress exhibit on Washington's life, work, and influence on American culture.
Creator of the Tuskegee University, read about the life of Booker T. Washington and his work "Up From Slavery".
Article by Daniel Hager from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Hyper-linked biography of Washington with comments on his life by contemporaries.
Wikipedia biography, features information on people and places that were significant to the author.
Literary magazine edited by the author.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis.
Review from The Tech.
Baltimore, Maryland-based group which promotes the memory and reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken.
A non-profit organization to promote the life, times and literary works of Saroyan. Information about its annual storywriting contest for students, and articles by and about the author.
Objectives are to educate, inform and communicate others about the author and his works. Includes photographs, quotes, and stories contributed by readers.
Life and accomplishments.
Information and links from Paul Reuben's PAL website.
Background information on Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative, by Caroline Gleason.
Article on the 18th century African-American poet. List if her known works, and links collection.
To a Waterfowl, Sonnet- to an American Painter Departing for Europe, The Poet and Thanatopsis.
From The Century Illustrated Magazine 23, published November 1881. From Project Gutenberg.
A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.
A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.
Poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857.
A brief biography and survey of online links of the American poet, and writer of horror, mystery and science fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Burroughs all wrote about Thoreau. Includes an essay on the relationship between Emerson and Thoreau.
A detailed biography of Thoreau by Lucius Furius.
Etext and study resources at the University of Virginia.
From the autobiography entitled We Are Many, by Ella Reeve Bloor.
Rob Couteau's biographical essay on the author, published in West Hills Review, 1985, explores the poet as an American ideal, focusing on his spirituality and politics.
Full text organized by chapter of Mencken's analysis of the discrepancies between British and American English and the distinguishing characteristics of the latter.
Philip José Farmer on Kurt Vonnegut and Kilgore Trout.
Series of sermons preached in 1739 and published posthumously by his son of the same name.
Franklin's life as a printer, inventor, scientist, and revolutionary, with an introduction, a timeline and related links.
Text divided by chapter, with other related writings.
Etext of Paine's pamphlet.
HTML text from Mondo Politico.
Etext on the Hanover Historical Project's site.
Full text in HTML.
Full text in HTML.
HTML etexts of several short stories.