Biographies:
Jane Austen
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather   
F. Scott Fitzgerald  
Stephen King
Jack London
Herman Melville
George Orwell
Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
Elie Wiesel

Miscellaneous Sites
The Academy of American Poets  (A look at poetic works with audio samples and biographical information.)
ALA Book & Media Awards  (Current book and author awards.)
Amazon.com  (Excellent reviews of books.)
American Literature  (Numerous links to American literature resources.)
Bookwire.com  (Book lovers website for new titles, new authors, book reviews, and general news about the book industry.)
British Poetry 1780-1910  (A hypertext archive of British's Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry.)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832   (Showcasing works by British women poets of the Romantic period.)
A Celebration of Women Writers  (A search engine designed specifically to look for women writers.)
Common Errors in English  (An alphabetically sorted list of common English errors.)
Contemporary Women Writers  ( Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Amy Tan, and Alice Walker.)
Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary  Lexicon of fringe English words and phrases focusing on slang, jargon, and new words.
Drop Me Off in Harlem  People, events, and places of the Harlem Renaissance.)
googlebooks.com
Great Writers and Poets  (An excellent resource for information on poets and writers.)
Guide to the Harlem Renaissance  (Library of Congress holdings on the Harlem Renaissance.)
Harlem, 1900-1940  (Photographs from the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture.)
The Internet Classics Archive  (Complete works of classical literature including Aesop, Aeschylus, Homer, Ovid, and Plato.)
Literary Criticism Collection  (Criticism and biographical information for over 100 British & American authors and their works.)
Literary Research Tools on the Net  (A comprehensive collection of websites related to Literature and the Humanities.)
Luminarium  (English Literature: Medieval, Renaissance, and the 17th Century.)
Marvel: Literature Resource Center  (A major literature reference tool provided by The Gale Group for Maine Library users.)
Marvel: Novelist  (Find books to read on Marvel.)
Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet   (A complete anthology of Shakespeare's works complete with a search engine.)
Nobel Prize Winners
Norton Poets  (Short biographies of 100 contemporary poets with links to their web sites and recordings of their reading.)
An Online Books Page  (Digital books online.)
An Online Library of Literature  (Unabridged texts of classic works of English/American literature.)
Outline of American Literature  (A comprehensive study of American Literature.)
Project Bartleby  (Great books online.)
Project Equinox  (250 poets from 24 nations working for world peace.)
Project Gutenberg  (Free electronic books.)
The Pulitzer Prizes  (Past and current Pulitzer-Prize winners.)
Teen Reads  (Reviews and information about books, characters, authors, and series for teen readers.)
Voices from the Gaps  (Lives and works of women poets/writers of color.)