Author Guides

The following Author Guides will help you find background information on your author as well as identify the various catalogs, computers, indexes, and Internet sites which will provide in-depth analyses of your author.

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A

• Achebe, Chinua
• Adams, Alice
• Adams, Richard George
• Aeschylus
• Agee, James
• Aiken, Conrad
• Albee, Edward
• Alberti, Rafael
• Alcott, Louisa May
• Aleixandre, Vicente
• Algren, Nelson
• Allen, Woody
• Allende, Isabel
• Alonso, Damaso
• Alvarez Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin
• Amado, Jorge
• Amichai, Yehuda
• Amis, Kingsley
• Anderson, Maxwell
• Anderson, Poul
• Anderson, Sherwood
• Andrews, V.C.
• Angelou, Maya
• Apple, Max
• Archer, Jeffrey
• Aristophanes
• Arnold, Matthew
• Arnow, Harriette Simpson
• Asimov, Isaac
• Atwood, Margaret
• Auchincloss, Louis
• Auden, Wystan Hugh
• Auel, Jean M.
• Austen, Jane
• Azorin

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  B

• Babel, Isaac
• Bach, Richard
• Bacon, Sir Francis
• Baldwin, James
• Balzac, Honore de
• Bambara, Toni Cade
• Baraka, Imamu Ameer (Leroi Jones)
• Barea, Arturo
• Barnes, Djuna
• Barnes, Julian
• Baroja, Pio
• Barrie, Sir James Matthew
• Barth, John
• Barthelme, Donald
• Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
• Baxter, Charles
• Beattie, Ann
• Beaumont, Francis
• Beauvoir, Simone de
• Beckett, Samuel
• Behn, Aphra
• Bellamy, Edward
• Bellow, Saul
• Benavente, Jacinto
• Benchley, Peter
• Benet, Stephen Vincent
• Berryman, John
• Betts, Doris
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Bishop, Elizabeth
• Blake, William
• Blasco Ibanez, Vicente
• Blatty, William Peter
• Blume, Judy
• Boll, Heinrich
• Bolt, Robert
• Borges, Jorge Luis
• Borowski, Tadeusz
• Bourjaily, Vance
• Bowen, Elizabeth
• Bowles, Paul
• Boyle, Kay
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan
• Bradbury, Ray
• Bradstreet, Anne
• Braine, John
• Brautigan, Richard
• Brecht, Bertolt
• Bronte, Charlotte
• Bronte, Emily
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Brown, Charles Brockden
• Brown, Rita Mae
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
• Browning, Robert
• Bryant, William Cullen
• Buck, Pearl
• Buckley, William F.
• Buechner, Frederick
• Buero Vallejo, Antonio
• Bulgakov, Mikhail
• Burgess, Anthony
• Burns, Robert
• Burroughs, William
• Butler, Octavia
• Byron, George Gordon Noel

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  C

• Cain, James
• Caldwell, Erskine
• Caldwell, Taylor
• Calisher, Hortense
• Callaghan, Morley
• Calvino, Italo
• Campion, Thomas
• Camus, Albert
• Capek, Karel
• Capote, Truman
• Carroll, Lewis
• Carson, Rachel
• Carver, Raymond
• Cary, Joyce
• Casona, Alejandro
• Cather, Willa
• Cela, Camilo Jose
• Celine, Louis Ferdinand
• Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de
• Chandler, Raymond
• Chappell, Fred
• Chase-Riboud, Barbara
• Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Chayefsky, Paddy
• Cheever, John
• Chekhov, Anton
• Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
• Childress, Alice
• Chopin, Kate
• Christie, Agatha
• Cisneros, Sandra
• Clancy, Tom
• Clark, Mary Higgins
• Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
• Clarke, Arthur Charles
• Clavell, James
• Cliff, Michelle
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
• Colette
• Collier, John
• Collins, Jackie
• Colwin, Laurie
• Condon, Richard
• Connelly, Marc
• Conrad, Joseph
• Conroy, Pat
• Cook, Robin
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Coover, Robert
• Cormier, Robert
• Cortazar, Julio
• Coward, Noel
• Crane, Hart
• Crane, Stephen
• Crews, Harry
• Crichton, Michael
• Cullen, Countee
• Cummings, E.E.

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  D

• Davies, William Henry
• Defoe, Daniel
• Deighton, Len
• DeLaney, Samuel R.
• Delibes, Miguel
• DeLillo, Don
• Dennis, Nigel
• DeQuincey, Thomas
• DeVries, Peter
• Dickens, Charles
• Dickey, James
• Dickinson, Emily
• Didion, Joan
• Dillard, Annie
• Dinesen, Isak
• Doctorow, E.L.
• Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
• Donleavy, J.P.
• Donne, John
• Doolittle, Hilda
• Dos Passos, John
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• Dove, Rita
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
• Drabble, Margaret
• Drayton, Michael
• Dreiser, Theodore
• Dryden, John
• du Maurier, Daphne
• Dubus, Andre
• Dugan, Alan
• Dumas, Alexandre
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence
• Duras, Marguerite
• Durrell, Lawrence

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  E

• Eco, Umberto
• Eliot, George
• Eliot, T.S.
• Ellis, Bret Easton
• Ellison, Ralph
• Erdrich, Louise
• Espriu, Salvador
• Esquivel, Laura
• Euripides

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  F

• Farrell, James Thomas
• Faulkner, William
• Fauset, Jessie
• Faust, Irvin
• Ferber, Edna
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
• Fielding, Henry
• Fitzgerald, Edward
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Flaubert, Gustave
• Fletcher, John
• Follett, Ken
• Forbes, Esther
• Ford, Ford Madox
• Forster, E.M.
• Fowles, John
• Freeman, Mary Wilkins
• Friedman, Bruce Jay
• Frost, Robert
• Fry, Christopher
• Fuentes, Carlos

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  G

• Gaddis, William
• Gaines, Ernest J.
• Galsworthy, John
• Garcia Lorca, Federico
• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
• Gardner, John
• Garrett, George
• Gaskell, Elizabeth
• Gass, William
• Gelber, Jack
• Gibran, Kahlil
• Gibson, William Ford
• Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume
• Gilchrist, Ellen
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
• Giovanni, Nikki
• Giraudoux, Jean
• Gironella, Jose Maria
• Glasgow, Ellen
• Glaspell, Susan
• Godwin, Gail
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
• Gogol, Nikolai
• Gold, Herbert
• Golding, William
• Goldman, Emma
• Goldsmith, Oliver
• Gomez De Laserna, Ramon
• Gordimer, Nadine
• Gordon, Caroline
• Gorky, Maxim
• Goyen, William
• Grau, Shirley Ann
• Graves, Robert
• Green, Henry
• Greene, Graham
• Grimes, Martha
• Guillen, Jorge
• Gunn, Thom
• Guthrie, Arlo B.
• Guy, Rosa

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  H

• Haley, Alex
• Hamilton, Virginia
• Hammett, Dashiell
• Hannah, Barry
• Hansberry, Lorraine
• Hardy, Thomas
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
• Harris, Mark
• Harrison, Jim
• Hawkes, John
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Hayden, Robert
• H.D.
• Heller, Joseph
• Hellman, Lillian
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Hempel, Amy
• Henley, Beth
• Herbert, Frank
• Herbert, George
• Herrick, Robert
• Herriot, James
• Hersey, John Richard
• Hesse, Herman
• Highwater, Jamake
• Hinton, S.E. (Susan Eloise)
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Homer
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley
• Hopkins, Pauline
• Housman, Alfred Edward
• Housman, Laurence
• Howard, Sidney
• Howells, William Dean
• Hudson, William Henry
• Hughes, Langston
• Hughes, Ted
• Hugo, Victor
• Hunter, Kristin
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Huxley, Aldous

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  I

• Ibsen, Henrik
• Inge, William Motter
• Irving, John
• Irving, Washington
• Isaacs, Susan
• Isherwood, Christopher

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  J

• Jackson, Shirley
• James, Henry
• James, P.D.
• Jarrell, Randall
• Jewett, Sarah Orne
• Jimenez, Juan Ramon
• Johnson, Charles
• Jones, Gayl
• Jones, Madison
• Jong, Erica
• Jonson, Ben
• Jordan, June
• Joyce, James

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  K

• Kafka, Franz
• Kanin, Garson
• Kavan, Anna
• Keats, John
• Kelley, William Melvin
• Kennedy, William
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kesey, Ken
• Kincaid, Jamaica
• King, Stephen
• Kipling, Rudyard
• Knowles, John
• Kosinski, Jerzy
• Kotzwinkle, William
• Kumin, Maxine
• Kundera, Milan

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  L

• Lamb, Charles
• Landor, Walter Savage
• Lardner, Ring
• Larkin, Philip
• Larsen, Nella
• Lawrence, David Herbert
• Lee, Harper
• Le Guin, Ursula K.
• Lermontov, Mikhail
• Lessing, Doris
• Levertov, Denise
• Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples)
• Lewis, Sinclair
• Lewis, Wyndham
• London, Jack
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Lovelace, Richard
• Lowell, James Russell
• Lowell, Robert
• Lowry, Malcolm

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  M

• McCarthy, Mary
• McCullers, Carson
• Macdonald, Ross
• Machado, Antonio
• MacLeish, Archibald
• McMillan, Terry
• McMurtry, Larry
• McPherson, James Alan
• Madden, David
• Maeterlinck, Maurice
• Mailer, Norman
• Malamud, Bernard
• Malory, Sir Thomas
• Mann, Thomas
• Mansfield, Katherine
• Marlowe, Christopher
• Marquand, John P.
• Marshall, Paule
• Marvell, Andrew
• Mason, Bobbie Ann
• Matute, Ana Maria
• Maugham, William Somerset
• Maupassant, Guy de
• Melville, Herman
• Michener, James
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent
• Miller, Arthur
• Milton, John
• Miro, Gabriel
• Mishima, Yukio
• Mistral, Gabriela
• Mitchell, Margaret
• Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
• Moore, Marianne
• Morris, Wright
• Morrison, Toni
• Mphahlele, Ezekiel
• Muir, Edwin
• Munro, Alice
• Munro, Hector Hugh (Saki)
• Murdoch, Iris

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  N

• Nabokov, Vladimir
• Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
• Nelson, Alice Dunbar
• Nemerov, Howard
• Neruda, Pablo
• Newby, Percy Howard
• Newman, John Henry
• Nin, Anais

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  O

• Oates, Joyce Carol
• O'Brien, Tim
• O'Casey, Sean
• O'Connor, Edwin
• O'Connor, Flannery
• O'Connor, Frank
• Odets, Clifford
• Oe, Kenzaburo
• O'Hara, John
• Olsen, Tillie
• Olson, Charles
• O'Neill, Eugene
• Ortega y Gasset, Jose
• Orwell, George
• Otero, Blas de
• Owen, Wilfred
• Oz, Amos
• Ozick, Cynthia

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  P

• Paley, Grace
• Paretsky, Sara
• Parker, Dorothy
• Parkman, Francis
• Pasternak, Boris
• Paton, Alan
• Paz, Octavio
• Percy, Walker
• Perez de Ayala, Ramon
• Perez Galdos, Benito
• Phillips, Jayne Anne
• Pickthall, Marjorie
• Piercy, Marge
• Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing
• Pinter, Harold
• Pirandello, Luigi
• Plath, Sylvia
• Plautus, Titus Maccius
• Plutarch
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Pope, Alexander
• Porter, Katherine Anne
• Porter, Peter
• Porter, William Sydney
• Potok, Chaim
• Pound, Ezra Loomis
• Powell, Anthony
• Powers, James F.
• Price, Reynolds
• Proust, Marcel
• Puig, Manuel
• Purdy, James
• Pushkin, Alexander
• Pym, Barbara
• Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles

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  R

• Rabe, David
• Rabelais, Francois
• Racine, Jean
• Rand, Ayn
• Ransom, John Crowe
• Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
• Remarque, Erich Maria
• Renault, Mary
• Rice, Anne
• Rice, Elmer
• Rich, Adrienne
• Richardson, Samuel
• Rilke, Rainer Maria
• Robbe-Grillet, Alain
• Robbins, Tom
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington
• Robinson, Marilynne
• Roethke, Theodore
• Rolvaag, Ole
• Rossetti, Christina
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
• Rostand, Edmond
• Roth, Philip
• Rowling, J. K.

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  S

• Salinas, Pedro
• Salinger, J.D.
• Sand, George
• Sandburg, Carl
• Sappho
• Saroyan, William
• Sartre, Jean Paul
• Sassoon, Siegfried
• Sastre, Alfonso
• Sayers, Dorothy
• Schwartz, Delmore
• Scott, Paul
• Scott, Sir Walter
• Selby, Hubert
• Sender, Ramon Jose
• Sexton, Anne
• Shakespeare, William
• Shange, Ntozake
• Shaw, George Bernard
• Shaw, Irwin
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe
• Shepard, Sam
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
• Sherwood, Robert
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk
• Silko, Leslie Marmon
• Sillitoe, Alan
• Simon, Neil
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis
• Snow, C.P.
• Sokolov, Sasha
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
• Sophocles
• Spark, Muriel
• Spencer, Edmund
• Spencer, Elizabeth
• Spiegelman, Art
• Stafford, William
• Stegner, Wallace
• Stein, Gertrude
• Steinbeck, John
• Steiner, George
• Stevens, Wallace
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Stoker, Bram
• Stoppard, Tom
• Strindberg, August
• Styron, William
• Swados, Harvey
• Swift, Jonathan
• Synge, John Millington

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  T

• Tan, Amy
• Tarkington, Booth
• Taylor, Peter
• Teasdale, Sara
• Tennyson, Alfred
• Thackeray, William Makepeace
• Thomas, Dylan
• Thurber, James
• Tolstoy, Leo
• Trevor, William
• Trollope, Anthony
• Turgenev, Ivan
• Twain, Mark
• Tyler, Anne

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  U

• Unamuno, Miguel de
• Undset, Sigrid
• Updike, John
• Uris, Leon

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  V

• Valle-Inclan, Ramon del
• Vargas Llosa, Mario
• Verne, Jules
• Vidal, Gore
• Viereck, Peter
• Virgil
• Voltaire, Francois Marie Arquet de
• Vonnegut, Kurt

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  W

• Wagoner, David
• Wain, John
• Walker, Alice
• Wallant, Edward Lewis
• Warner, Rex
• Warren, Robert Penn
• Wasserstein, Wendy
• Waugh, Evelyn
• Webster, John
• Wells, H.G.
• Welty, Eudora
• West, Dorothy
• West, Jessamyn
• West, Nathanael
• Wharton, Edith
• Wheatley, Phillis
• Whitman, Walt
• Whittier, John Greenleaf
• Wiesel, Elie
• Wilbur, Richard
• Wilde, Oscar
• Wilder, Thornton Niven
• Williams, Tennessee
• Williams, William Carlos
• Wilson, Angus
• Wilson, Lanford
• Wister, Owen
• Wolfe, Thomas
• Woolf, Virginia
• Wollstonecraft, Mary
• Wordsworth, William
• Wouk, Herman
• Wright, Richard
• Wylie, Elinor

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  Y

• Yeats, William Butler
• Yezierska, Anzia

  Z

• Zamyatin, Yevgeny
• Zola, Emile

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