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Grammar Homework Help
The Online Grammar Guide
Claims to be "the ultimate online guide English grammar." See also Guide to Grammar and Style.

Rules for Comma Usage
A complete and clearly-written guide to using commas. It includes on-line quizzes and other interactive features.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Perhaps the best grammar and writing resource on the Web, this interactive site covers virtually every aspect of writing conventions and composition.

Writing Homework Help
Writer's Handbook
Online instructional materials developed by the University of Wisconsin.

Writing a Basic Essay
Online tutorial for essay writing.

How to Write a Perfect Research Paper
Outlines logical steps to writing a good research paper. See also A Guide for Writing Research Papers: APA Style.

MLA Citation Examples
Good source for help with bibliographies.

APA Citation Style
From the Cornell University Library. See also Cite Resources: American Psychological Association (APA).

The Biography Maker
Excellent resource for helping students write biographies.

About Creative Writing
Advice for writing fiction.

Literature Homework Help (study guides, movements, genre, periods)
Spark Notes
Free on-line study guides for over 100 books!

Novel Guides
More that 50 books from McDougal Littell's ClassZone.

Novel Study Links
Detailed study guides for 42 novels.

Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction
Study guides for nine works of science fiction including The War of the Worlds and The
Martian Chronicles. See also Science Fiction Resource Guide.

Voice of the Shuttle Eng. Literature
A massive site with many resources for English and American literature. See their main index.

The Luminarium
Great site for Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century literature.

The Victorian Web
Terrific site for learning about the Victorian period and Victorian authors.

American Literary Movements
Descriptions of various American literary movements such as Arminianism, Concord Chronology, Covenant Theology, Native American Literature, Plantation Tradition, Southwestern Humor, and the Travel Narrative.

Great Books Foundation
See also Malaspina Great Books.

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
Another excellent resource.

African-American Literature Online
A comprehensive guide to African American literature during the Twentieth Century.

Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors' Names
An alphabetical pronunciation guide.

Aesop's Fables
An online collection!

Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
An excellent resource with bibliographies and links to sites on topics related to children's literature, including censorship.

Children's Literature Web Guide
Links to children's literature sites.

Sites for Multiple Author Links
Doucette Index
Though this index is primarily designed for teachers, students may also find it useful. It provides links to websites for specific books and authors. You can search by entering either the title or author's name.

Yahoo Authors
Looking for information on a specific author or his/her works? Try this comprehensive alphabetical index of links.

Literary Resources on the Net
A well-organized collection of literature links

Literary Resources -- American
From the above site. An extensive set of links to sites about American literature and specific American authors.

American Literature Anthology - Writer's Index
A chronological and alphabetical index for 332 American authors.

Domestic Goddesses
An excellent source for information on women writers of "domestic fiction."

LSU Libraries Webliography: Author Guides
Links to individual author guides or other sources that deal with specific writers.

Authors on the Web
A collection of biographical sketches organized alphabetically.

Score CyberGuides
Another site primarily for teachers, but it also includes student activities for literature, including many on specific works and authors. There are separate lists for grades K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors' Names
An alphabetical pronunciation guide.

Quotez Quotation Index
Index for quotations from authors.

The Victorian Web
A great site for learning about the Victorian period and Victorian authors.

SFF Net
An alphabetical listing of links to science fiction and fantasy authors.

Native American Literature
Includes links to Native American authors.

Mexican and Latin American Literature: Selected Sources
A list of links.

Voices from the Gaps
A site devoted to women authors of color.

Writing Black
Literature and history written by and on African Americans. The page provides links to sites for many African American authors.

African Literature
A list of links.

Specific Authors/Works (An alphabetical listing of pages for more than 100 authors and some of their major works)
Abbey's Web
A comprehensive page on Edward Abbey, author of The Hidden Canyon.

Louisa May Alcott
A page about this author of Little Women from Domestic Goddesses, a terrific site devoted to women writers of "domestic fiction."

Maya Angelou
Her official site.

Rudolfo Anaya
Links.

Isaac Asimov Home Page
A comprehensive resource for information about this prolific author.

Jane Austen's Art and Her Literary Reputation
The definitive Jane Austen page.

Avi
The author's home page.

Natalie Babbitt
A biography from Scholastic.

The Samuel Beckett Endpage
A comprehensive site with a timeline, biography, photo gallery, bibliographies, links, etc.

Beowulf
Okay, I know that's not the author's name, but it seemed rather pointless to list this work under anonymous. So, if you want Spark Notes for studying Beowulf , click above. Or, see the Electronic Beowulf.  

The Ray Bradbury File
A brief biography and some excellent links. See also Study Guide for Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Spark Notes: Fahrenheit 451.

Carol Ryrie Brink
A bibliography and other resources for this author of Caddie Woodlawn .

Pearl S. Buck
A comprehensive page with a biography, selected writings, news, a list of articles and books about her, etc.

William S. Burroughs
An impressive site devoted to this author of Naked Lunch.  

Joseph Campbell
A set of links. Click on the red text to read Joseph Campbell's Ten Commandments for Reading Mythology.

Albert Camus Critical Interpretation Homepage
An excellent site with a biography, essays, analyses, and links. Also, check out my site, The Sisyphus and Teaching Page, for other information and links.

LEWIS CARROLL Home Page
A guide to Lewis Carroll resources and documents on-line and in print.

geoffreychaucer.org
An annotated guide to on-line resources.  

Chaucer Metapage
A site designed to "provide navigation aides for Chaucer resources on the WWW."

Canterbury Tales Study Materials
From the Luminarium. To improve your reading pleasure, take a look at A Basic Chaucer Glossary.  

Kate Chopin
A page about this author of The Awakening from Domestic Goddesses, a terrific site devoted to women writers of "domestic fiction."

James Fenimore Cooper Society
Information on Cooper and his books.

Robert Cormier
An author profile. Click here for Spark Notes for Cormier's The Chocolate War .

Stephen Crane
Biographical information and links. See also The Stephen Crane Society.  

Karen Cushman
A biography and bibliography as well as reviews and critiques.

Digital Dante
From Columbia University, this is the ultimate Dante site! See also Project Ideas for Dante and Study Guide: The Inferno.

The Dickens Project
This definitive Dickens page is "devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens."

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
Works, characters, timeline, bibliography, etc.

Dostoevsky Research Station
A comprehensive site with a biography, chronology, quotations, and 200 links to information on Dostoevsky and his works.

Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate
A biography, quotes, and many links.

Stanley Elkin
From the Literary Encyclopedia. Click here to read his obituary!

T. S. Elliot - What the Thunder Said
A timeline, works, and links to online resources.

Ralph Ellison
A biography and links. See also Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A long list of Emerson links from Geocities.

William Faulkner on the Web
Information about Faulkner's life, works, and adopted hometown.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
An extensive page with bibliographies, a biography, essays , articles, etc. See also The Great Gatsby: A Beginner's Guide.

Sid Fleischman
The author's official site.

Dario Fo
A list of links from the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Anne Frank Internet Guide
An excellent resource. See also Anne Frank.com, for photographs and information about Anne's journal and how it survived World War II; and Cybrary of the Holocaust, for a comprehensive site with images and recollections of survivors, a teacher's guide, and links.

Ernest J. Gaines
A unit outline plus study guides, activities, and projects for A Lesson Before Dying. Click here for links to biographical information and lesson plans for several other books by Gaines.

Jean Craighead George
The official website for this author of Julie of the Wolves.

William Golding Home Page
Biography, resources, bibliography, etc.

Spark Notes for William Golding's Lord of the Flies

The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
A webquest in which students use the links provided to learn about the historical context of Betty Greene's book.

John Grisham Online
A biography, information about his books, and links. See also MWP: John Grisham.  

Alex Haley
Information about Haley and his works.

The Lorraine Hansberry Page
A brief biography, teacher's guide to Raisin in the Sun , and information on African American writers. 

Thomas Hardy and The Mayor of Casterbridge
Biographical information, the Victorian context, study notes, and critiques.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biography and works.

Joseph Heller
Quotes, a biography, and links. See also Internet Resources: Joseph Heller & Catch 22.  

Virtual Hemingway
Biography, bibliography, articles, photos, teaching resources, and links to other Hemingway sites. See also Ernest Hemingway's Places.

The Hermann Hesse Page
A comprehensive source of information about Hesse and his writing.

S.E. Hinton
The authors nome page. See also The Outsider s Spark Notes and The Outsdiers Novel Study.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
An extensive list of links. 

Victor Hugo
A page on Victor Hugo and Les Miserables . See also Victor Hugo Central

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
A comprehensive page on the novel and the author, complete with music!

Aldous Huxley
A brief biography, quotes, a bibliography, and numerous links.

The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
Just what the title implies.

The James Joyce Center
A comprehensive site.

Garrison Keillor
Links to sites about this Minnesota author and radio personality.

Jack Kerouac
Bio and links for Kerouac and the "beat generation."

Stephen King
Links to sites for biographies, books and movies, and even the officially sanctioned Stephen King page!

Kent's Shoeless Joe Resource Page
Information about  W.P. Kinsella and Shoeless Joe .

Rudyard Kipling
A biography, short summaries of stories from The Jungle Book , full text of six poems, analysis, and links.

The Madeleine L'Engle
The author's offcial site.

Ursula K. Le Guin
The author's home page.    

The To Kill A Mockingbird Student Survival Guide
Everything you need to know about Harper Lee's classic novel. See also To Kill a Mockingbird : Then and Now, a new resource from Thinkquest.

Sinclair Lewis Society
Click here for Spark Notes on Main Street.

Jack London - His Life and Books
Biography, photos, and links. See also Jack London Homework Help for links to articles, study guides, and writing guides  and Call of the Wild WebQuest.  

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Books Central
Links to a biography and online sources for his works. See also Classical Authors Directory: Authors: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .

Bette Bao Lord
From Wikipedia.

Featured Author: Lois Lowry
A guide to links on Lowry and her books.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Biography, bibliography, Nobel Prize Lecture, criticism, papers, reviews. Click here for another site with lots of Marquez links.

The Cormac McCarthy Home Pages
This is the official web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society. It features a biography, information about his works, news, criticism, etc.

The Life and Works of Herman Melville
Biography, works, criticism, links. See also Vocabulary for Moby Dick and The Web of Meaning in Moby Dick.

Arthur Miller's The Crucible
An excellent set of links to help you with your paper on this timeless work. See also Jen's Crucible Web Page.  

Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
Biographies, bibliographies, interviews, links, and information on specific works.

George Orwell Page
Summaries, interpretations, essays, biography, and links.  See also Animal Farm Spark Notes and Study Guide to Animal Farm.

Sara Paretsky
The author's home page.

Katherine Paterson
The official web site for this author of Bridge to Terabithia.   

Gary Paulsen
A biography and links.

Richard Peck
A biography and other information about this author of books for young adults.

Egdar Allan Poe
"A critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web."

Thomas Pynchon Home Page
A comprehensive site on this American author.

The Ayn Rand Institute
Biography, articles, essentials of objectivism, and all sorts of other information.

Salman Rushdie
Links to many sites on Rushdie.

Salinger.org
Information on J. D. Sallinger and his works.

Mary Shelly and Frankenstein
Essays, links, and references.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Spark notes with everything you need to understand this novel

Betty Smith
A study guide for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Gary Soto Home Page
The "official" web site for this author of adolescent literature.

Jerry Spinelli
See also Wringer for information and many links.

Steinbeck: The California Novels
Summaries and links. See also the Steinbeck Archives and  The Center for Steinbeck Studies.

Cannery Row
Spark Notes for this book. See also Cannery Row Photo Essay.

The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
An excellent lesson plan from the Library of Congress. See also  Grapes of Wrath Study Site.

Teacher CyberGuide for Of Mice and Men
Lesson activities and links for the secondary level. See also Spark Notes: Of Mice and Men.

The Pearl
A secondary-level lesson plan that requires students to use the Internet. See also Spark Notes: The Pearl  and Introduction to The Pearl .          

The Red Pony
Spark Notes for this book. 

The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
A great site for learning about Stevenson's life and works.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
A comprehensive site with text, a Swift biography, quotes, notes, images, and links to online resources.

Anniina's Amy Tan Page
Biography, interviews, essays, reviews, and a bibliography.

Study Guide for Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
A brief biography, synopsis, comprehension questions, and literary concepts.

The Thoreau Reader
An online guide to Thoreau and his works.

Leo Tolstoy
An impressive site with a biography, timeline, reading tips, e-texts, and links. 

Mark Twain and His Times
An excellent site with information that will make your study of Mark Twain and his books a lot more manageable. See also Tom Sawyer: Distance Learning Lesson Plan and Tom Sawyer Home Page.

Jules Verne Collecting Website by Andrew Nash
Book summaries and links to other Verne pages. See also Academic Scholarship on Jules Verne.  

John Updike
A biography, bibliography, and information about selectd works.

Kurt Vonnegut
His "official" Web site. If it pertains to Kurt Vonnegut, you'll probably find it here.

Anniina's Alice Walker Page
Biographies, interviews, essays, articles, reviews, etc.

H. G. Wells
A brief biography and some links. See also e Notes for The Time Machine and Study Guide for H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds.  

Oscar Wilde
A page from The Victorian Web.  

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Information and links. Click here to go to Come Home to Little House for additional information.

Thornton Wilder
Links to sites on Wilder and Our Town.

Tennessee Williams
An extensive site on Williams and his works.

Shakespeare Study Help
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Leave your book at school? This site offers Shakespearean plays online!

Shake - Sphere
A comprehensive study guide to the world of William Shakespeare! Well, that may be a bit of an overstatement, but this site may help you understand his plays and improve your grade. See also An Introduction to Shakespeare, Spark Notes: Shakespeare, Absolute Shakespeare,  Shakespeare Navigators, Shakespeare Sites on the Web. Shakespeare Play Analysis.

The Plays of William Shakespeare
An excellent set of links to study guides, Sparknotes, study questions, literature summaries, lesson plans, teachers guides, and full text

Shakespeare's Plays: Lesson Plans and Resources
Another long list of lessons and resources, this one from About.com.

Poetry Homework Help
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Definitions, examples, quotations, and writer's guidelines. Check out the Related Links for other pages with literary terminology.

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
Find the perfect rhyming word.

Write Express Online Rhyming Dictionary
Another rhyming dictionary.

Poetry Writing Tips
From John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center. Take a look at the entire site.

The Poetry Resource
Links to poets, collections, poetry around the world, poetry through time, etc.

Yahoo Poetry
A huge list of links organized topically.

The American Verse Project
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Links to pages for 159 poets. Click Related Links for other poetry pages.

Find a Poet
Information on specific poets organized alphabetically.

17th Century Women Poets
Poets, poems, articles, resources.

African-American Writers: Poets and Poetry
Links to sites about African-American poetry and poets

Mythology Homework Help
Mythweb
A site devoted to the heroes, gods, and monsters of Greek Mythology.

Homer's Odyssey
An extensive study guide.

The Hero's Journey
Cool resource for helping students create their own stories using mythical heroes.

Perseus Digital Library
Use the left-side menu or the search box at the top of the page to find the specific information you need or see their online exhibits: The Ancient Olympics and Hercules.  

Greek Mythology Link
A searchable site full of information.