AUTHOR PROJECT

 

 

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1) At the "Subject" prompt enter the author's name- This will bring up any books written about
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NOTE: Remember this catalog is a listing of only what the library owns and not all of the
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ONLINE RESOURCES

Ebscohost, Electric Library



REFERENCE

REF 810.9 DRE
Drew, Bernard A. The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors. 


REF 920.873 AMEv.1
Unger, Leonard. American writers : a collection of literary biographies.


REF 920.873 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley and Haycraft, Howard. American authors, 1600-1900 : a
biographical dictionary of American literature.

REF 920.8 KUN
Kunitz, Stanley. Twentieth century authors.

REF 920.8 KUN
Wakeman, John and Kunitz, Stanley. World authors, 1950-1970 : a companion volume
to Twentieth century authors.

REF 920.8 MAG
Magill, Frank Northen. Cyclopedia of world authors. New York, Harper, [1958].

REF 920.3 MOD
Showalter, Elaine. Modern American women writers.

REF 920.873 AME
American writers : a collection of literary biographies. 

REF 809.04 SEY
Seymour, Patrick. The Literary Almanac : the best of the printed word, 1900 to
the present

REF 920.873 AME RSUP I
Litz, Walton A. and Molly Weigel, general editors. American Writers: a
collection of literary biographies. retrospective supplement I. 



CIRCULATING

808.81 A
Adoff, Arnold. The poetry of Black America : anthology of the 20th century.

810.9 PEC Vol.1&2

American Ethnic Writers

810.9 WRI
Sternburg, Janet. The Writer on her work.

811.08 Bon
Bontemps, Arna Wendell. Golden slippers : an anthology of Negro poetry for young
readers.

820 GIL
Gubar, Susan. The Norton anthology of literature by women : the tradition in
English.

808.8 HOR
Hornstein, Percy. The Reader's companion to world literature

808.81 BOO
A Book of women poets from antiquity to now.

808.81 COS

Wilbur, Richard. The Penguin book of women poets.

811.009 DRA
Drake, William. The first wave : women poets in America, 1915-1945.

808.76 HAY
Hayden, Robert Earl and Lapides, Frederick R. Afro-American literature : an
introduction..

808.83
Watanabe, Sylvia. Home to stay : Asian American women's fiction.

920.72 WRI
Conway, Jill K. Written by herself : autobiographies of American women : an
anthology.

305.4 AME
American women : their lives in their words.

920.72 WRI
Cahill, Susan, ed. and introduction. Writing women's lives : an anthology of
autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American women writers.

810.9 TAT
Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work.

810.8 GRE
Green, Rayna ed. That's What She Said\:contemporary poetry and fiction by Native
American women.

811.5 NIA
Niatum, Duane. Anthology of 20th-century Native American Poetry.

810.8 RIL
Riley, Patricia; Editor. Growing Up Native American: An Anthology.

810.9 Dav
Davidson, Marshall B. The American heritage history of the writers' America.

808.819 SCH
Watts Writers' Workshop and Schulberg, Budd. From the ashes : voices of Watts.

810.9 RUS


Russell, Sandi. Render me my song : African American women writers from slavery
to the present.

920.72 WRI

Cahill, Susan, ed. and introduction. Writing women's lives : an anthology of
autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American women writers :
an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth-century American
women writers].

810.9 TAT
Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work.

810.8 SHO
Shockley, Ann Allen, Editor. Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933: an
anthology and critical guide.

920 KRU

Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Writers.

810.9 PEC V.1
American Ethnic Writers, Volume 1

810.9 PEC V.2

American Ethnic Writers, Volume 2

 

INTERNET RESOURCES

Index to Authors

Authors websites

American Authors

American Authors on the Web

http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/libraries/bhslib/images/ContAmerLit.pdf

Heath Guide to American Literature

Author Guides