Volume II

Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910

Voice of the Shuttle
Authors, works, projects from the 19th century
Nineteenth Century Studies: Journal information
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Covers authors of the Romantic, Transcendentalist, Realist, and Colonial periods.
Encyclopedia Britannica's Nineteenth Century Literature

Developments in Women's Writing

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature: T-AMLIT syllabus
A Celebration of Women Writers: from Mary Mack at Carnegie Mellon

Julia A.J. Foote (1823-1900)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Short Story Search
Includes links to seven shorts.
Life in the Iron Mills
Site created by American Lit. Class at UT-Austin.  Includes Interchange session.
Janice Milner Lassiter' Introduction and Bibliography
An extensive list of print sources.

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Little Women
Online version.
The Louisa May Alcott Web
Links to writing, criticism, photos.
Hospital Sketches
3 sketches from Alcott's turn as a a nurse during the Civil War.
Louisa May Alcott page
Biography, annotated bibliography, and list of works.
Literary Giants on the WWW: Little Women
Class project at UVA, with annotated chapters and extensive critical bibliography.
Thomas Hampson's I Hear America Singing
Profile of the Alcotts.
Atlantic Unbound: "The Stories of Louisa May Alcott"
Atlantic Monthly's Arts and Culture page.

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
Brief biography of Spofford's detective fiction.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

"Kentucky Belle"
From "Poetry and Musicof the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."
Gender Implications in Henry James's "The Pupil" and Constance Woolson's "A Transplanted Boy"
Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, May 1992 by Sharon L. Dean.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)

The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
Links to a handful of short stories.

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Jenny Taylor's American Literature Resources
Includes text for "The White Heron" as well as chronology, bibliography, and links to criticism.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
A tour of Jewett's family home in Maine, with photos, floorplans, and antique objects.
Women Regionalists Revisited
"The limits of local color" addresses Jewett's assessment of Stowe as well as connecting Phelps.
"White Heron" site
U Texas site with text and student criticism.
America in the Gilded Age
Anthology tracing movement toward realism; Jewett in context with contemporaries.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Project 1 and 2: The Life and Literature of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A tour through stories, and biography with a look at the early 19th century women's movement.
Student Projects: "Sweet Solitude," Two Independent Women," Louisa and Edna"
Mohave Community College site on post Civil War literature.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

Author's Hidden Life.
Leah Blatt Glasser writes feminist perspective on Hopkins' "hidden life."

A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth Century American Women

Poet Links: Professor Eiichi Hishikawa Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.

A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s

Regional Voices, National Voices

Dottie Webb's "19th Century Regional Writing"

A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920

African-American Folktales
Studying African-American Literature in Its Global Context
Samuel B. Olorounto in the Virginia Community Colleges Association Journal

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)

Mark Twain from the Mining Company
Jim Zwick's extensive site provides searches, bibliography, film, criticism, and much more.
Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, and Related Resources
Numerous news articles and an alpha list of quotations.
Mark Twain Forum Home Page
An introduction to mailing list for those with scholarly interests in Twain's work.
Mark Twain in His Times
From UVA's Electronic Text Center, links to contemporary reviews, interactive sites, full length texts.
Mark Twain in Hartford
Includes family history, photos, letters as well as a Gift Shop of Twain Museum.
The Mark Twain Library
Includes several manuscripts and commentary.
Mark Twain Project at Berkeley
Information regarding the Twain Project archives housed at the Bancroft Library.
The Captain's Web site
A site for riverboat enthusiasts, includes "tour" of Mississippi River and discussion lists.
Twain sites in Elmira, NY
Residence for Mark Twain Scholars, the Elmira College site contains links to Twain sources on the Web.

George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

Cable's Letters Home from the Road
Excerpts from notes scribbled to his wife during performances.
Perspectives in American Literature
Brief bibliography and link to Old Creole Days.

Grace King (1852-1932)

Crescent City Literature
A history of New Orleans writers told in comparison to Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

Access Atlanta
Tour information for the Wren's Nest, Harris' museum home.
Uncle Remus:Social Context and Ramifications
UVA site with annotated passages and contemporary reviews.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)

A Digitized Library of Southern Literature
Background and links to five stories.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Treasures of the University of Delaware Library
Brief biography.
Stamp on Black History
Student site with brief biography created for US Postal Service.
Digital Collections Inventory Report
Wright State Unioversity's pending online collection of poetry, novels, plays. Includes sound files.
"We Wear the Mask"
Online version of poem.

Alexander Lawrence Posey (Creek) (1873-1908)

Native American Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Creek authors and works.
A Creek Indian Bibliography

John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) (1874-1947)

Native American Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Cherokee authors and works.

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Louisana Local Color: Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Student essay.
Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History
Brief biography from LSU library.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
From the Gutenberg Project.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers
Biography and Archive list, with some annotations, from the U of Delaware.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

The William Dean Howells Society
Information, including links to projects and issue of the Howellsian.
The Eldritch Press William Dean Howells page
Links to online stories.
William Dean Howells on the Philippine-American War
Links to Centennial Books commercial site.

Henry James (1843-1916)

The Henry James Review
Includes several issues of journal.
The Henry James Page
Links to online articles and stories.
Cher Maitre: The Other Sides of Henry James
Project of The Mercantile Library of New York, with 3 essays on "James and the Feminine."
The Women Writers Henry James Influenced
Dr. Jane Benardete, Hunter CUNY
Timeline
Part of a student project.

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

The Kate Chopin Project
Currently inder reconstruction
"The Awakening": Not a Healthy Book
A controversial student essay with a string of email responses plus a link to the Gutenberg Project text.
Feminine Sexuality and Passion: Kate Chopin's "The Storm"
Student project.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Forked Tongue
Witty commentary on Bierces "Devil's Dictionary"
The Devil's Dictionary
Hypertext version of satirical "masterpiece."
Author of Supernatural Fiction
Presents links on the web, including Ambrose Bierce, Master of the Macabre

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Hamlin Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
Student project, contains text and comments on "Under the Lion's Paw."
Hamlin Garland
Introduction and links to other web sources.

Frank Norris (1870-1902)

The McTeague site
U. Texas site, includes student essays, online text, and Interchange session.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

The DMS Stephen Crane Page
U of Akron student project contains essays, photos, FAQs, and biography.
The Whilomville Stories
Numerous texts linked to site.
The Red Bdge of Courage Conference Page
Provides a list of links relating to the novel as well as a comprehensive list of Civil War sites.

Jack London (1876-1916)

The Jack London Collection
Berkeley's Digital Library, with links to texts, bibliography, criticism, photos, and more.
Jack London Square History Project
Clever but brief biography.
Jack London State Historic Park
Links to pictures, biography, and history of area.

Issues and Visions in Post-Civil War America

Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908)
STATEWIDE Interactive
The history of Standing Bear's fight for native American citizenship.
Famous Nebraskan Native Americans
A shorter history of Standing Bear's trial.

Ghost Dance Songs

Ghost Dance
From "Travels with Daniel," an historical trip site with text on Custer, the Massacre at Wounded Knee and more.
The Ghost Dance Among the Lakota

Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)

Indigenous Peoples' Literature
Links to Eastman's work, including reflections on numerous Native American Chiefs.
Dr. Charles A. Eastman Ohiyesa (Winner) Wahpeton Dakota
A Native American Indian Resources autobiography.

Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891)

Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife") (1836-1926)

Women of Courage
A short biography that is part of a site devoted to North Country Pioneers.
What Students Think is Funny
A teacher compares cultural responses to Woody Allen, Grace Paley, Marietta Holley and James Thurber.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)

Creative Quotations
Brief excerpt relating to the fourth African American woman to receive a Ph.D.
Our Story: Black Women
Brief biographies on many black women in education.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Celebrating Women's History Month
Biography.
"The Yellow Wall-paper" Site
With links to student projects at various Universities.
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter
Three online editions.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education"
From The Women in Literature and Life Assembly, an essay by Deborah M. De Simone.

Jose Martí (1853-1895)

Jose Marti & Martin Luther King Jr: Brothers in Thought
From the Free Cuba Foundation, an essay with linked biographies to King and Marti.
A piece of Cuban history
A special interests story from the Miami Herald.

Corridos

Links to Corridos (Spanish) Brief overview.
Corrido Web Projects
Student projects, with links to audio and (Spanish) text as well as a few overview essays.

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"Mr. Dooley on Imperialism: Satire by Finley Peter Dunne"
Short overview with links to essays.

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

The Profits of Religion
"Merriam-Sinclair Battle Outstanding in National Political Scene"
From the Museum of the City of San Francisco archives. Check related items.
"The Consequences of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms . . . "
An essay from the site EarthSharing.
"Manipulation of the Media"
From America's Top Secrets, an online expose of the wealth distribution in America.
Resources on Muckraking
Literature @ SunSITE
Includes postcards from Jack London and link to The Jungle.

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

The Education of Henry Adams: A Hypertext
From the UVA American Studies Program.

New Explorations of an "American" Self

Jewish-American Literature Research Homepage
Contemporary writers, with links to bibliography of Jewish-American secondary sorces.
Ethnic Studies at USC
Native American Resource Guide
Asian American Literature
Jewish American Resources

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
The Forward Centennial
An editorial recalling the struggles of its founder.
"A Ghetto Wedding"and "The Russian Jew in America"
From The Atlantic Monthly, February and July 1898.
Congregation Emanu-El
A short biography of Cahan's contribution to Jewish-American intellectual movement.
"Yiddish Literature"

Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914)

"Teaching Asian American Literature"
From The Heath Anthology Newletter.

Mary Austin (1868-1934)

Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain
Text of Chapter 1 plus publication notes, biography, and reviews. Frames only.
"Uncovering the hidden history of regionalism: The American regionalist insurgency of the 1920s-40s"
Article from Cascadia planet e-zine.

Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)

Native American Indian Resource
Lengthy biography.
Jeanne M. Oyawin Eder on Zitkala-äa
Brief overview with essay, "A Woman of Two Worlds."
"American Indians in France in World War I"
Excerpt from a Master's thesis.

Mary Antin (1881-1949)

The Letters of Mary Antin: A Life Divided
An essay from the American Jewish Historical Society.
Heroic Women You Can Talk To: Two Boston Immigrants
A preview of a story-tellers travelling show.

Modern Period: 1901-1945

Toward the Modern Age

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)
Booker T. Washington and Character Education at Tuskegee Institute 1881-1915
Electronic paper by Dr. Sanderson Beck.
Recent Acquisitions: Letters from Booker T. Washington
U of Virginia's library--good scans of two letters.
Booker T. Washington Monument
Historical site with image and quotes.
Booker T. Washington
Brief biography by Louis Harlan, U of Maryland.

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
Ohio State graduate student Jennifer Wager created this site devoted to many aspects of Du Bois studies.
W.E.B. Du Bois Resources
Numerous links to online projects, texts, and more.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Timeline
Contains text of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
"The Making of Harlem"
Frames version, may be read as JPEG files.

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

American Resource Center
Biography and literature review.
The Children of the Night
The Gutenberg Etext.
Gardiner (Maine) Public Library
A brief biography and link to Robinson's childhood home.

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

The Ellen Glasgow Page
Includes links to text and biographical sketch.
Chronology and the Life and Works of Ellen Glasgow
From Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
The Women Writers Henry James Influenced
Dr. Jane Benardete, Hunter CUNY

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

An overview with biocritical sources
Contains many links to other sites.
Literature and Politics of her Time
A student project, with analysis of many of Wharton's works.
The Edith Wharton Homepage
Links to several etexts.

Edgar Lee Masters(1869-1950)

Anti-Imperialist Writings by Edgar Lee Masters
Jim Zwick's essay with links to Masters' poetry.

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Willa Cather Home Page
Biography, quotations, and publications; many links.
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Website
Introduction to "Catherland" and The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation.

Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

"The Promise of Provincetown"
Jeff Kennedy at the NYU Program in Educational Theatre.
American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site
U of Southern Florida student project with text and analysis of "Trifles."

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation
Extensive site, with bibliographic links and contemporary analysis.
Robinson Jeffers Homepage
Links to Journal and poetry.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

The Robert Frost Web Page
Biography and links to interviews.
The Literature Nook Presents... A Tribute to Robert Frost
Links to poetry, WWW sites, and historical materials.
Robert Frost and Helen Thomas: Five Revealing Letters and Robert Frost and Helen Thomas Revisited*
By William R. Evans, for the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, and Lesley Lee Francis.
Michigan Today
Article about Robert Frost's great-grandson and his disinterest with Frost's poetry.

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

The Clyde, Ohio Web Page
City history and links to Anderson.
Winesburg, Ohio
Project Gutenberg's Etext.

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Dreiser Forum
A handful of discussion items from 1996 and 1997 forum postings.
The Indiana Historical Society
Brief biography.
Sister Carrie Online

Edna St. Vincent Millay(1892-1950)

Renascene and Other Poems
Timeless Selfhood: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Expounding the pages from "Lesbian Poetry."

Alienation and Literary Experimentation

The Modernist Revolution
Essay from the Academy of American Poets with links to many of the following.
The Project Gutenberg Etext of Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
or the Hypertext Version.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Poet Page: Ezra Pound
Biography and bibliography; links to texts, journals, lists.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Myriad links, including poetry, biography, contemporary artists.
Alumverse site on Imagism
Link from poetry project describes imagism.
Electronic Poetry Center
Contains online discussion from those who knew and studied Pound.
From World Authors
Biography, with first paragraph written by Pound.
The strange and inscrutable case of Ezra Pound
Abstract of Smithsonian Magazine article, December 95.

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

The Poetry of Amy Lowell
Overview and links to lesbian poems.
imagism
Definition and description according to Lowell's anthology.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Search for Stein under "Texts" for links to biography, online works, audio readings, and more.
The Poetry of Gertrude Stein
From the Lesbian Poetry page.

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

WCW Poems
Transcribed on personal page.
Williams and Art
A site with links comparing Williams poetry to contemporary art scene.
William Carlos Williams: the Poetry/Art Connection
Another reference to Cubist and Dada sources for poetry.
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Search for Wiliams under "Texts" for links to biography, online works, etc.

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

Eugene O'Neill Links
Part of a student project, contains many links to reviews of current O'Neill Productions.
The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog
O'Neill's comical and wise canine text.
Beyond the Horizon, A Play in Three Acts
Paul Robeson: Multi-Genius
A brief biography of the man who played Emperor Jones.

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

A perfect Valentine for Literary Lovers
Out magazine book review that reads like a biography.
The Stanford Daily Online: "Miscellaneous"
Review of Phillip Herrington's biography, "Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes."

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

The H.D. Homepage
Biography, newsletter, resources, poetry online.
Imagist Women: H.D. and Marianne Moore
U Texas student site, with biography and poetry.

A Sheaf of Political Poetry in the Modern Period

PREFACE to Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism
Alan Filreis Cambridge University Press, 1994.

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

An Unofficial E. E. Cummings Starting Point
Contains bibliography, chronology, and links to web resources.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

What the Thunder Said
Extensive Eliot site: works, resources, timeline, etc.
What T.S. Eliot Almost Believed
From The Institute on Religion and Public Life, a First Things essay.
T.S. Eliot at Kobe University
Professor's page, including biography and links to other Eliot pages.
The Politics of T.S. Eliot
A Heritage Foundation lecture by Russell Kirk.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A hypertext version.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1986-1940)

F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
An extensive site from U of South Carolina, with essays, biography, quotations and more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Pathfinder
A brief guide to Fitzgerald's life and works.

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

American Prose since 1945: Realism and Experimentation
Brief background on Porter's literary career.
A Sense of the Times
A review of Janis P. Stout's biography of the writer.
Katherine Anne Porter Room
U of Maryland Library site whcih catalogues her papers.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Twentieth Century Poetry: Marianne Moore
Short biography and links to other Moore sites.
Modernist Conversations: Imagist Women
U Texas student project (Moore and H.D.), includes historical background, poetry, and Chronology.

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Louise Bogan Biography
With link to Selected Poetry

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

The Papa Page
An extensive site for beginning an online search.
Earnest Hemingway in Oak Park
Biography and links to online resources from Oak Park Tourist site.
Ernest Hemingway Lecture Hall
A message board, with a link to a Hemingway chatroom.
Ernest M. Hemingway Homepage
U of Florida site; numerous links.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Wallace Stevens
Site constructed by Wallace scholar, Alan Filreis of U Penn.
Wallace Stevens: Some Poems
A Geocities site; includes short biography.
Feigning with the Strange Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site
Materials for Middle Tennessee State U English course.
The Poet of Two Worlds
A student paper from U Texas..
Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens
Site contains links to the Wallace Stevens Walking Tour and the under-construction Wallace Stevens Journal.

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner on the Web
John Padgett, an Ole Miss grad student, provides biography, character analysis, FAQs, and numerous links.
The William Faulkner Collections
U of Virginia Library site.
The William Faulkner Foundation, France
Bibliography, chronolgy, and introduction to Southern U.S. studies program in France.

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

The Hart Crane HomePage
Links to resources and scholars working on Crane projects; incomplete.
The Lost Generation
Links many expatriated American writers.

The New Negro Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance Page
The Black Poetry Page
The Survey Graphic Harlem Number
Essays from leaders of the Harlem Renaisssance.
Women without role models: How the women of the Harlem Renaissance invented their own culture
By Amy M. Vames.
Epistrophy
Jazz in 20th Century Literature.
Reclaiming Lesbigay African-Americans
Rhetoric of the New Negro: Creating the Archetype for the Harlem Renaissance
By Andy Cline, a graduate student and free-lance writer, U Missouri, Kansas City.
The Harlem Renaissance: A selected List
A bibliography and links from the Chicago Public Library.

Alain Locke (1885-1954)
Alain (LeRoy) Locke
Biography amd links to contemporaries.
William Grant Still Exhibition
Several links highlighting Locke's relationship to the composer.
"Alain Locke's Sociocultural Conceptions of Race"
Cleavis Headley, for the APA Newsletters.
"Harlem"
"Enter the New Negro"

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

A Jean Toomer Page
Biography, works, and links to other WWW sites.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Links, from Voice of the Shuttle search
Includes links to biography, student projects, and poetry.
from Reclaiming Lesbigay African-Americans
Biographies--Langston Hughes
From the Kansas State Historical Society.
Langston Hughes' Lawrence

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

"Heritage"
Poems from the Survey Graphic Harlem Number.
from Reclaiming Lesbigay African-Americans
Countee Cullen: How Teaching Rewrites The Writer
Hans Ostrom for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English.
Modern Conversation: Racial Implications
A "conversation" between poets Cullen, Hughes, and Sharol Olds, includes biographies.

Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)

"To A Dark Girl"
Poem from the Second Cup homepage, with a link to a brief biography.

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)

A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History
Short biography.
Poems by Arna Bontemps
"God give to men" and "A note of humility" from the Black Poetry Page.
Arna Bontemps African-American Museum and Cultural Arts Center
Under construction.

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

"Let Us Suppose"
In the Opportunity Journal of Negro Life.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

zora neale hurston homepage
An Ohio State student's site, with links to stories, criticism, and more.
Alliance Working To Achieve Racial Equality
Numerous links to Hurston sites.
Wired for Books re: Zora Neale Hurston
An Ohio U site with RealAudio broadcast of program devoted to Hurston plus message forum.

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Favorite Poems and The Black Poetry Page
Assorted collections.

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

The News & Advance Online: "Foundation wants to buy Spencer store property"
An article in the Virginia paper with accounts of Spencer's life provided by her son.

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Biography and bibliography from U of Minnesota's Department of American Studies.
The Boston Book Review
Review of Thadious M. Davis' Nella Larson, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled.

George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)

Blues Lyrics

Blues Lyrics Online
Numerous links by title (recording artist listed), by Vital.
rec.music.bluenote.blues Frequently Asked Questions

Issues and Visions in Modern America

American Indians in World War I... in Symbol
Section of BYU Master's Thesis by Diane Camurat.

Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
From The BIG EYE
Background with a link to "The War and the Intellectuals."

Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)

Michael Gold (1893-1967)

"Gertrude Stein: Literary Idiot"
First Published in The New Masses.

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

"The Adventures of John Dos Passos"
Chapter 15 from Danial Aaron's Writer's on the Left.
One Man's Initiation: 1917
A Novel, 1920.
John Dos Passos, 1917-1928
From Penn State University course, Kenneth Burke and His Circles: Greenwich Village 1915-1931.

Albert Maltz (1908-1985)

Art and Politics
Howard Fast's response to Maltz's "What Shall we ask of Writers?"
Filmography
Links to Screenplays from the Internet Movie Database.

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes
With a link to wordsearch.
The Shaw Festival's Biography of Lillian Hellman
and Lillian Hellman 1905 - 1984 American Playwright/ Screenwriter
Lillian Hellman's FBI File
Herbert Mitgang, Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)

Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
From the Boston Book Review.

Clifford Odets (1906-1963)

Clifford Odets: Anguish of Many Colors in Paintings
An art review from the New York Times.

Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)

Introduction to RIPENING: Selected Works, Meridel LeSueur, 1927-1980
By Elaine Ryan Hedges (Written in 1982) at BookZen.

Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)

Native American Authors Project
From the Internet Public Library.
Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
Book review and biography.

John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)

Native American Authors Project
From the Internet Public Library.

Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)

D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)

The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
For further information about the Newberry Library, contact furmans@newberry.org
"The North American Native Authors Catalog": McNickle
Brief biography with links to etexts.

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Robert Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality
Review of Book by Robert S. Koppelman.
Baron's Book Notes
All the King's Men.

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

Poems from the Planet Earth
Six from "Poems and Essays."
John Crowe Ransom Papers
Overview and link to comprehensive chronology at Vanderbilt Special Collections.

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

"Barbed-Wore Entanglements: The New American Poetry 1930-32"
Marjorie Perloff, Standford University.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Richard Wright: A disgruntled Postal Worker
Biography, chronolgy, and annotated bibliography.

Margaret Walker (b. 1915)

Richard Wright: Daemonic genius
Excerpt from Walker's book about her firend.
"We have been believers"

Saunders Redding (1906-1988)

Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)

Younghill Kang (1903-1972)

Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants

Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present

Part I--Literature of the Cold War: Orthodoxy and Resistance

Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Ann Petry (b. 1908)
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
Lee Smith (b. 1944)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
John Updike (b. 1932)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
John Okada (1923-1971)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912)
Nebraska Center for Writers and the Western Literature Association
Brief biographies.
What the Critics say about Tillie Olsen
From the NCW.
Introduction to BETTER RED: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olse and Meridel Le Sueur
By Constance Coineren on Bookzen.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Robert Creely (b. 1926)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
James Wright (1927-1980)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Part II--New Communities, New Identities, New Energies

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965)
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Pedro Pietri (b. 1944)
Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
A Lucille Clifton Page
A Web site containing the text of several of Clifton's poems and a short biography.

Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)

Vigilance and Heart-Cling
An essay on Bambara by Toni Morrison.
The Lesson
Text of Bambara's short story.

James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

Michael S. Harper
Contains brief notes and the text of four of Harper's poems.

June Jordan (b. 1936)

Manifesto of the Rubber Gloves
E-text of one of Jordan's poems.

Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

Marge Piercy Homepage
The author's own Web site.
Marge Piercy Homepage
A site under construction, this includes links to reviews of Piercy's novels, summaries of her works, and e-text of several of her poems.

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)

Native American Authors: N. Scott Momaday
Momaday's listing on the Internet Public Library.
Cross-Cultural Mediation: Language, Storytelling, History and Self
as Enthymematic Premises in the Novels of N. Scott Momaday
An academic essay discussing House Made of Dawn and The Ancient Child.
N. Scott Momaday
An extensive interview with the author.

James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)

Tomás Rivera (1935-1984)

Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)

Pat Mora (b. 1942)

"Elena"
This student project explores Mora's poem Elena.  The text of the poem is included, as well as limited information about Pat Mora.

Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (b. 1951)

Family Influence
Student essay comparing Hongo's memoir "Kubota" with Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue".

Part III--Postmodernity and Difference: Promises and Threats

Welcome to Hanksville!
This site contains many narrative and archival Native American projects, including links to the works of many Native American authors and copywrighted e-text of many poems.
Index of Native American Authors Online
Part of the "Welcome to Hanksville!" site, this site contains links to the works of many Native American authors. It also contains some book reviews and dates of author appearances.
Essays on Teaching the American Literatures
This essay by Amy Ling of University of Wisonsin-Madison is taken from the Heath Anthology Newsletter.
Center for Native American Arts & Education
This site details the mission and goals of the Center for Native American Arts & Education.

David Henry Hwang (b. 1957)
The Metamorphosis of M. Butterfly
Site describes Hwang's family background and the development of his play, M. Butterfly.
Interview with David Henry Hwang
Interview in "Mosaic" -- University of Pennsylvania's Asian-American Literary Arts Magazine.

John Barth (b. 1930)

The Literature of Exhaustion
An essay by Barth, part of the "Re-thinking the Book" section of U. Alberta's Electronic Labyrinth.

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)

Barthelme
From the Pomona Pynchon site.
Game
Barthelme's short story online.
Barthelme
Pynchon reviews Barthelme.

Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937?)

HyperArts Pynchon Pages
This site contains searchable webguides for several of Pynchon's novels. It introduces new readers to Pynchon and provides links to related sites.
Who Is Thomas Pynchon ...And Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?
Jules Siegel's memoir on Pynchon, subtitled "Shedding a little light on the most famous author-recluse since J.D. Salinger."
Juan's Garage Sale
Listing of sites related to Pynchon.
Pomona Pynchon Page
This multimedia site contains information about Pynchon's novels and offers links to related sites.
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Identity, Meaning, and the Presence
of Thomas Pynchon in The Crying of Lot 49
Student paper exploring Pynchon's identity within his novels.
Assorted Pynchon Journalism
Links to articles written by and about Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon Bibliography
Check to see if this site is worthwhile.

Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)

John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)

Salon:  John Edgar Wideman
This offers a short bio on Wideman and links to an interview with him.

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Voices From the Gaps
An excerpt from "Black Women Writers at Work", biographical and bibliographical information.
Audre Lorde
This Emory University site contains one of Lord's poems, a brief bibliography, and additional links about Lorde.
A Tribute to Audre Lorde
Contains several essays about Lorde and the text of three of her poems.

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)

Maxine Hong Kingston: Warrior Woman
Student paper exploring gender, class, and ethnicity.
Voices From the Gaps:  Women Writers of Color
Excerpt from The Woman Warrior, biographical and bibliographical information.
Tricksters in Doctorow and Kingston
Essay on the trickster figure in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey; His Fake Book.

Amy Tan (b. 1952)

Anniina's Amy Tan Page
Contains extensive links to texts, reviews, essays, biographical information and more.
Chinese-American Women in American Culture
An investigation of Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
Amy Tan
Essay on writing The Hundred Secret Senses.
Family Influence
Student essay comparing Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" with Garrett Hongo's "Kubota".

Gish Jen (b. 1955)

Conversation with Gish Jen
Gish Jen answers reader questions.

Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

Impossible Music
This essay reviews and compares Ashbery's Flow Chart and William Bronk's Living Instead.
Poems from the Planet Earth - John Ashbery
Contains text of several of Ashbery's poems from various collections.

Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

A Sketch of Norman Mailer by William S. Burroughs.
Norman Mailer, Gary Gilmore, and the Untold Stories of the Law
Examines the story of Gilmore's conviction and execution through Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer
An academic paper, part of Connotations: a Journal for Critical Debate.

Michael Herr (b. 1940)

The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Several essays within this site refer to Herr's works in discussing Vietnam and the Vietnam War.

Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)

Carolyn Forché's web site.
Long Poem Group Newsletter #2
A review of Forché's poem The Angel of History.

Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1942)

Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)

Tato Laviera (b. 1951)

Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)

Gary Soto (b. 1952)

Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)

Joy Harjo Biography
This site contains a brief biography and links to many of Harjo's works online.

Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) (b. 1947)

Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)

Voices From the Gaps:  Women Writers of Color
Excerpt from The Beet Queen, biographical and bibliographical information.
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, and
the (De)Mythologizing of the American West
Student essay.
"Satan: Hijacker of a Planet"
Short story.

Wendy Rose (Hopi) (b. 1948)

Wendy Rose Bibliography
A bibliography of Rose's books and articles, journals which have published her works, and interviews.

Cathy Song (b. 1955)

Girl Powdering Her Neck
This site contains the text of the poem and shows the Japanese painting which inspired it.

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Books I Remember
In this interview, Dove describes books she loved as a child. She recommends works for children and teenagers in The Western Canon, Jr..
Lady Freedom Among Us
Text and images of Dove's poem.
A Rita Dove Page
Several samples of Dove's poetry plus a transcribed online interview with Ms. Dove.
Lives in Motion: Multiple Perspectives in Rita Dove's Poetry
Kevin Stein examines the position of history in three of Dove's poetry collections:  The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Museum (1983), and Thomas and Beulah (1986).

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)

Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)

Chicana Literature Student Work
Student projects on the work of Lorna Dee Cervantes from University of Texas, Austin.
Calling Lorna Out
An interview with Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)

Testimonies to Survival
Notes from an interview with Aurora Levins Morales.

Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)

Holders of the Word: An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee
Transcript of an interview conducted with Mukherjee in May, 1996 for Jouvert, a journal of postcolonial studies.
American Dreamer
An article by Mukherjee discussing citizenship and ethnic identity.
Two ways to belong in America
A second article on the same subject, comparing Mukherjee's feelings of identity with her sister's.
Bharati Mukherjee: an interview
Mukherjee discusses immigration, racism in different countries, and feminism in an interview with SPAN.

Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)

Native American Authors: Leslie Marmon Silko
A comprehensive list of online resources by or about Silko.
A Comprehensive WWW Index: Leslie Marmon Silko
Another series of links including some critiques of her work.
Ceremony
A summary of Silko's Ceremony.
The Border Patrol State
Silko's 1994 essay was a cover story in the online Tucson Weekly, September 26, 1996.
Voices from the Gaps:  Leslie Marmon Silko
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers of color. It contains biographical information and a selected bibliography.
Fences Against Freedom
An essay by Leslie Marmon Silko.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Effects of While Contact on Pueblo Myth and Ritual
An essay on Ceremony and Pueblo myth and ritual.

Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)

Voices from the Gaps: Sandra Cisneros
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers of color. It contains a brief quote from Cisneros, biographical information, and a selected bibliography.
Geniuses Can Come in Many Colors
LatinoLink article describing Cisneros' MacArthur Fellowship award.
Sandra Cisneros
This site contains brief comments about the author and an excerpt from "Original Sin" from Loose Woman.
"A House of My Own"
This Texas Woman's University site offers a brief biographical sketch of Cisneros.

Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)

Writing the Southwest Homepage
Ortiz is one of thirteen American Southwest authors highlighted in this thirteen-part national radio documentary series.

Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

Web page for Toni Morrison's Beloved
Developed by University of Texas students, this site provides biographical information on Morrison, descriptions of 19th century historical events providing context for Beloved, a close reading of Beloved, and an anthology of Morrison's novels. The site was awarded Lycos' Top 5% Award.
Toni Morrison References on the Internet
A student's extensive project including biographical information on Morrison, a bibliography of sources related to his research, an anthology of student essays on various Morrison novels, links to a Morrison discussion group, and a search function.
Toni Morrison, Author
A relatively spare site, exploring five of Morrison's novels by key themes and motifs.
The World That Toni Morrison Made
A comprehensive site, including critical work on several of Morrison's novels, biographical information, and interviews with Morrison.
Toni Morrison -- Tar Baby
"Faces as Black as His But Smug" -- The Race Traitor in Morrison's Tar Baby
Anninna's Toni Morrison Page
Another comprehensive site including quite a few site links.
Goddess Speaks the Blues: Gnosticism and the Blues in Toni Morrison's Jazz
A sociological and literary perspective of the novel.
Ownership and the Loss of Communal Ties in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Scholarly paper on themes in this Morrison novel.

Afterword: Classroom Issues in Teaching a New Canon

Index of Authors