ENGLISH RESOURCES- Authors

 

 

 

Recommended Websites

 

• Internet Public Library 

  www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/   

  Use Authors and Literature by Time Period sections.

 

• Dewey Browse 

  http://www.deweybrowse.org/     

  Websites classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System.  Check out the 800-899 and 92 sections

 

Databases and Online Reference Books

 

• Biography Resource Center

• Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

• Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature

• Contemporary Novelists

• Literary Reference Center

• Oxford Companion to American Literature

• Oxford Companion to English Literature

• Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

 

Library Catalog Search Terms

 

• For works about an author, type author's name under subject or keyword tab. 
• For works by an author, type author's name under author or keyword tab.
• Literature (name of country)    Example:  Literature--Canada 
• Literature (type)    Example:  short story writers, novelists, biographers

 

Reference Sources in Print

 

• African American Writers REF 810.9896 Af83h and REF 810.9896 Sm67a
• American Writers REF 810.9 Un3a
• American Women Writers REF 810.99287 M285a
• Ancient Writers REF 880.09 L962a
• Asian American Literature REF 810.9895 As42t
• Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature REF 860.09 Sm67c
• Cyclopedia of World Authors REF 809 M272c
• Dictionary of Literary Biography (American Writers) REF 810.9 D561L
• Dictionary of Literary Biography (British Writers) REF 820.9 B777a
• European Writers REF 809.894 J139e
• Latino and Latina Writers REF 810.9868 Scr31L
• Modern Black Writers REF 809.889 P812m
• Mystery and Suspense Writers REF 823.0872 W729m
• Native American Literature REF 810.9897 W617n
• Oxford Companion of Australian Literature REF 820.9944 Ox2
• Oxford Guide to British Women Writers REF 820.99287 Sh250
• Science Fiction Writers REF 823.0876 B616

 

Search the stacks

 

• 809 Literary History and Criticism

• 810 American Literature in English

• 820 English and Old English Literature

• 830 Literature of Germanic Languages

• 840 Literature of Romance Languages

• 850 Italian Literature

• 860 Spanish and Portuguese Literature

• 870 Latin Literature

• 880 Greek Literature

• 890-899 Asian, African, Native American Literature

• 920 Biography and Genealogy

 

 

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