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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Academic
Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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The
Atlantic Online
Access book reviews and author interviews from the print
and online versions of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
WEB
SITE
American
Authors on the Web
Biographies and links to works from 1550 to 1950.
WEB SITE
Author
Yellow Pages
Searchable directory of author websites.
WEB
SITE
Book
Page
Includes book reviews and interviews with authors. Click
on Archives to search their database of reviews.
WEB
SITE
Contemporary
Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information
and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Each entry contains the nationality, birth/death date, a brief biography,
career summary, list of writings, and a bibliography of additional writings
on the author.
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Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive
collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains
a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and
sources for further study.
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Internet
Public Library's Literary Criticism
An excellent site offering comprehensive literary criticisms
and author biographies. One may browse the site by author, title, nationality,
or literary time period.
WEB SITE
Infotrac
General Reference Gold
Access full-text articles in hundreds of magazines, journals
and newspapers. This is an excellent source for author interviews and
book reviews.
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Librarian's
Index to the Internet - Literature & Books
Created by librarians, this website offers links
to quality websites on all topics of literature. Good links to try are
authors, book reviews, fiction by genre, literature by country, and
study guides.
WEB SITE
Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO.
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Novelist Plus
A readers' advisory service, provides access to 155,000 fiction and non-fiction titles and offers a wide range of feature content that will expand your staff's ability to serve fiction and non-fiction readers of all ages and increase the reach of your library's program including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.
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Oprah's
Book Club
Link to Oprah' Book Club Archive. Discover titles by
year, read summaries, reviews, author biographies and view the online
discussion. You may need to join the Oprah Book Club, at no cost, to
view all titles.
WEB SITE
Overbooked
Provides hundred of links to websites which features
authors, publishers, reviews, suggested fiction by genre, and themed
booklists.
WEB SITE
Reading
Group Choices
Based on the book, Reading Group Choices: Selections
for Lively Book Discussions, this website offers book suggestions
as well as discussion guides. If their website does not have a guide
to a title, they give the Internet address (URL) to another site that
does. Each guide contains a picture of the book jacket, plot summary,
brief biography of the author, and discussion questions.
WEB SITE
Reading
Group Guides
A website devoted specifically to reading groups. Each
guide contains a picture of the book jacket, a brief summary, and discussion
questions.
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Salon.com
This website is an online magazine which does daily book
reviews and some author interviews.
WEB SITE
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