Literature
Colonial Literature
Anne Bradstreet: includes a secondary bibliography, selected poems, biographical sketch and study guides. (Washington State University)
Mary Rowlandson: online text of her captivity narrative.
Early 19th Century Literature (1800-1865)
Washington Irving: links to online works, biographical information, selected bibliography, and other resources. (Washington State University)
The James Fenimore Cooper Society: full-text works, online articles and papers, biographical and bibliographical material, news and events. A special section on Cooper's daughter, writer Susan Fenimore Cooper.
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: bibliographical information, images, full-text primary and secondary sources, and related links.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville: news and events, biographical and bibliographical material, electronic texts, related links.
The Thoreau Reader: annotated full-text books and essays by Thoreau, as well as essays, images, biographical material, links to teaching resources and general Thoreau links.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: full-text works, biographical material, early (beginning 1837) and recent criticism, teaching resources from Eldritch Press.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: biographical material, teacher and student resources, external links.
Late 19th Century Literature (1865-1914)
Mark Twain in His Times: this excellent site explores Twain and his works in contemporary context. It offers advertisements, illustrations, contemporary reviews, photographs, articles and more.(University of Virginia)
The William Dean Howells Society: biographical material, links to online works, teaching resources, articles, annotated bibliography and related links.
Dickinson Electronic Archives: an excellent source of writings by the Dickinson family, images of Dickinson
Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project: this site contains the complete published works of Jewett (as well as essays, letters, and more), biographical and bibliographical material, online essays.
The Henry James Scholar`s Guide to Web Sites: links to various online resources such as full-texts of James's works, The Henry James E-Journal, James and films and more.
The Stephen Crane Society: online works, biographical and bibliographical material, related links, teaching resources.
Dreiser Web Source: full texts, correspondences, photographs, silent film and scholarly essays. (University of Pennsylvania)
Early 20th Century Literature (1914-1945)
The Edith Wharton Society: links to online texts, biographical and bibliographical material, news, excerpts from criticism and teaching resources.
Ezra Pound: biographical and bibliographical information, related links. (Kobe University)
What the Thunder Said: a site devoted to T.S Eliot. Includes a timeline, online works, resources and forums. (Raymond Camden)
The Official Zora Neale Hurston Webpage: bibliographical material, news, annotated bibliography, excerpts, teaching guides and related links.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary: bibliographical material, online texts, essays and articles, images, voice recordings and film clips. (University of South Carolina)
Timeless Hemingway: biographical material, photos, bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a blog dedicated to Hemingway and related links.
Literature Since 1945
The John Updike Society: biographical and bibliographical information, news, reviews, a discussion section and more.
Anniina`s Toni Morrison Page: book reviews, excerpts, interviews and critical material on each of Morrison's novels, as well as biographical and bibliographical material and related links.
E. L. Doctorow: annotated bibliography and selected resources (New York State Writers Institute)
Don DeLillo`s America: a bibliography, annotated primary and secondary bibliographies, interviews, links and more.
Poetry
American Verse Project: searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920 (University of Michigan)
Modern American Poetry: commentary, biographies, poems and links (University of Illinois)
Drama
eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive: full-text works, essays, newsletters, and selective bibliography.
Tennessee Williams: includes biographical information, bibliography and links. (the University of Mississippi)
The Sam Shepard Web Site: news, links, bibliography, filmography and music bibliography. (Bucknell University)
Arthur Miller Files: a detailed timeline, biography, and interviews from the University of Michigan.
Minority Literature
North American Slave Narratives: exhaustive full-text database of slave narratives published between the 18th and 20th centuries. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: a full-text collection from the New York public library.
Native American Authors: biographical information, links and bibliographies of (mostly) contemporary Native American Authors.
Southern Literature
Library of Southern Literature: an extensive collection of Southern literary texts published before 1924. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Frontier Literature
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls: this online exhibition from the Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection includes thousands of images and a few full-text Westren dime novels such as Buffalo Bill and California Joe.
Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth: A Synoptic hypertext: an accessible, hypertext, chapter by chapter summary of Henry Nash