A

B

James Baldwin

https://www.biography.com/writer/james-baldwin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Baldwin

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-baldwin

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2994/the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/introduction-james-baldwin

Toni Cade Bambara

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Cade-Bambara

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bambara-toni-cade-1939-1995/

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/11/nyregion/toni-cade-bambara-a-writer-and-documentary-maker-56.html

Djuna Barnes

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Djuna-Barnes

https://theconversation.com/djuna-barnes-the-lesbian-writer-who-rejected-lesbianism-78310

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/djuna-barnes

https://poets.org/poet/djuna-barnes

J.M. Barrie

https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-M-Barrie

Tonkin, Maggie. “From ‘Peter Panic’ to Proto-Modernism: The Case of J.M. Barrie.” Changing the Victorian Subject, edited by Maggie Tonkin et al., University of Adelaide Press, 2014, pp. 259–81. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.20851/j.ctt1t305b6.16.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peter-Pan-play-by-Barrie

L. Frank Baum

https://www.britannica.com/biography/L-Frank-Baum

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz/Publication-reception-and-analysis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frank-baum-the-man-behind-the-curtain-32476330/

Samuel Beckett

Browne, Joseph. “The ‘Crritic’ and Samuel Beckett: A Bibliographic Essay.” College Literature 8, no. 3 (1981): 292–309. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111407.

Samuel Beckett, the maestro of failure. Chris Power. “The Guardian”. July 7, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jul/07/samuel-beckett-the-maestro-of-failure

Biography from the Beckett Society’s website. https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/biography/

Max Beerbohm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Beerbohm

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/the-comparable-max

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/1813/max-beerbohm/

Aphra Behn

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Volume C)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aphra-behn

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aphra-Behn

Brit Bennett

https://britbennett.com/about

https://literary-arts.org/2022/02/get-to-know-brit-bennett/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/brit-bennett-reimagines-the-literature-of-passing

Wendell Berry

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/going-home-with-wendell-berry

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendell-berry

https://poets.org/poet/wendell-berry

https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-biography

https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/wendell-berry

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wendell-Berry

https://brtom.typepad.com/wberry/works-chronological.html

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/going-home-with-wendell-berry#:~:text=Berry%20has%20published%20more%20than,the%20land%20and%20the%20culture.

Peter Blue Cloud

http://nativejewelrylit.com/native-writers-bluecloud.html

https://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A18

https://saradowns4.wixsite.com/anthology20/peter-blue-cloud

https://www.theunion.com/news/a-tribute-to-peter-blue-cloud/

Robert Bly

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-bly

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/robert-bly-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/nov/23/robert-bly-obituary

Ray Bradbury

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-91.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury

Sarah Hopkins Bradford

https://auburnseminary.org/voices/harriet-tubman-and-sarah-hopkins-bradford/

https://historicgeneva.org/people/the-louisa-may-alcott-of-geneva-sarah-h-bradford/

Anne Bradstreet

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-bradstreet

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bradstreet

https://poets.org/poet/anne-bradstreet

The Norton Anthology, American Literature Ninth Edition, Beginnings to 1820

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

http://www.taffyakner.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/reader-center/taffy-brodesser-akner-fleishman.html?searchResultPosition=3

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/books/review/podcast-taffy-brodesser-akner-fleishman-is-in-trouble-katherine-eban-bottle-of-lies.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/taffy-brodesser-akner-profile-writer-on-getting-inside-subjects-heads.html?searchResultPosition=2

William Wells Brown

https://aaregistry.org/story/william-wells-brown-slave-who-became-prominent-abolitionist/

https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1500098;jsessionid=5E2F5B53E855C1217B155A7B04E19A33

Robert Browning

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-browning

https://poets.org/poet/robert-browning

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Browning/Legacy

The Poem and Plays of Robert Browning, Modern Library, 1934.

John Buchan

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Buchan-1st-Baron-Tweedsmuir

http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/theman.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/05/beyond-the-thirty-nine-steps-a-life-of-john-buchan-ursula

Pearl S. Buck

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pearl-S-Buck

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1938/buck/facts/

https://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/biography.html

https://pearlsbuck.org

Frances Hodgson Burnett

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frances-Hodgson-Burnett

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett#Childhood_and_early_stories

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Justin Everett. “Teaching the Pulps.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 24, no. 1–2 (2014): 200–205. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/trajincschped.24.1-2.0200.

https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/erb-biography/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs

Samuel Butler

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Butler-English-author-1835-1902

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)

http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/authors/Butler.html

https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Samuel-Butler/148255207

Lord Byron

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Byron-poet/Legacy

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lord-byron

https://poets.org/poet/george-gordon-byron

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Abraham Cahan

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Cahan

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abraham-cahan

Truman Capote

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Truman-Capote

https://www.britannica.com/topic/In-Cold-Blood-novel-by-Capote

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/truman-capote-about-the-author/58/

https://www.biography.com/writer/truman-capote

John le Carre

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-le-Carre

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-double-life-of-john-le-carre/413152/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary

Willa Cather

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3531324/

https://cather.unl.edu/scholarship/catherstudies/4/cs004.buss

https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-abstract/7/1/77/149858/Epic-Stone-ButchTransmasculinity-in-the-Work-of

https://prudencewrightholmes.com/call-me-william/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/willa-cather-about-willa-cather/549/

https://cather.unl.edu/life/longbio

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willa-Cather

https://www.willacather.org

https://www.willacather.org/willa-cathers-biography

Margaret Cavendish

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/margaret-cavendish/

https://iep.utm.edu/margaret-cavendish/

https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-cavendish

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/margaret-cavendish/

G.K. Chesterton

https://www.britannica.com/biography/G-K-Chesterton

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/g-k-chesterton

https://www.chesterton.org

Kate Chopin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Chopin

Toth, Emily. “Emily Toth Thanks Kate Chopin.” The Women’s Review of Books, vol. 16, no. 10/11, 1999, pp. 34–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4023250. Accessed 24 May 2022.

Susan Choi

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/31/susan-choi-interview-trust-exercise-metoo

https://www.susanchoi.com

https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/susan-choi-20145163033100

Agatha Christie

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agatha-Christie

https://www.biography.com/writer/agatha-christie

https://bookriot.com/agatha-christie-best-selling-author/

https://www.thoughtco.com/agatha-christie-1779787

https://www.agathachristie.com/about-christie

https://bookriot.com/agatha-christie-best-selling-author/

Lewis & Clark

https://www.britannica.com/event/Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lewis-clark#background

https://www.history.com/news/westward-expansion-slavery

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-expeditions-impact.htm

https://www.biography.com/explorer/sacagawea

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/lewis-clark-expedition-history

Bill Clegg

https://www.gq.com/story/the-gqa-bill-clegg-on-the-music-behind-his-recovery

http://simonandschusterpublishing.com/billclegg/about-the-author.html

https://www.today.com/news/after-cocaine-binge-bill-clegg-writes-recovery-wbna47044977

http://www.billcleggauthor.com

Jennifer Clemment

https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jennifer-clement

Jones, Brian, and Hamilton, Geoff. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works. United States, Facts On File, pp.68-69. Incorporated, 2010.

https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/1749-jennifer-clement/

https://pen-international.org/who-we-are/manifestos/the-pen-international-womens-manifesto

https://pen-international.org/who-we-are/manifestos/the-democracy-of-the-imagination-manifesto

https://www.netflix.com/title/81499072?source=35

Ta-Nehisi Coates

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ta-Nehisi-Coates

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/className-of-2015/ta-nehisi-coates#searchresults

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/coates-ta-nehisi-1975/

J.M. Coetzee

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2003/coetzee/biographical/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/05/jm-coetzee-books1

https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-M-Coetzee

Wanda Coleman

https://youtu.be/eltV25FLh_I

https://aaregistry.org/story/wanda-coleman-born/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wanda-coleman

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/las-unofficial-poet-laureate-dies-at-67/

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lake-poet

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69383/observations-prefixed-to-lyrical-ballads

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Biographia-Literaria

Wilkie Collins

https://victorianweb.org/authors/collins/bio.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilkie-Collins

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Woman-in-White

William Congreve

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Congreve

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/William_Congreve

Johnson, Samuel (1861). Cunningham, Peter (ed.). Lives of the most eminent English poets. New York: Derby and Jackson. p. 15.

Joseph Conrad

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Conrad

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heart-of-Darkness

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/joseph-conrads-journey

Pat Conroy

https://patconroy.com/biography/

https://patconroy.com/the-death-of-santini/

https://patconroy.com/the-prince-of-tides/

https://patconroy.com/the-great-santini/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/books/pat-conroy-who-wove-his-family-strife-into-novels-of-carolina-dies-at-70.html

https://www.npr.org/2016/03/05/469337158/remembering-pat-conroy-a-master-who-searched-out-the-world-in-stories

Stephen Crane

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stephen-crane

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Crane

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/the-miracle-of-stephen-crane-red-badge-of-courage-burning-boy

Robert Creeley

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-creeley

https://poets.org/poet/robert-creeley

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Creeley

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/books/robert-creeley-78-groundbreaking-poet-dies.html

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Daniel Defoe

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Defoe

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Robinson-Crusoe-novel

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Volume C)

https://www.britannica.com/art/robinsonade

Junot Díaz

http://www.junotdiaz.com/about/

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/junot-diaz

https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/junot-diaz/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140222033213/http://splashofred.squarespace.com/interviewsinterviews/2009/11/30/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-junot-diazso-far.html

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-junot-diaz/

James Dickey

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-l-dickey

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/08/the-burden-of-james-dickey/377173/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Dickey

Joan Didion

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joan-Didion

https://www.vogue.com/article/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961

Benjamin Disraeli

https://thegreatestbooks.org/authors/6717

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Disraeli

https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/benjamin-disraeli-the-earl-of-beaconsfield

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-disraeli

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/disraeli_benjamin.shtml

https://victorianweb.org/authors/disraeli/youngduke.html

https://victorianweb.org/authors/disraeli/henriettatemple.html

https://victorianweb.org/authors/disraeli/sybil.html

E.L. Doctorow

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/22/el-doctorow

https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/e-l-doctorow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/04/17/e-l-doctorow/f3115948-36b3-4640-9d5a-cbbb32176416/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-L-Doctorow

John Dos Passos

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dos-Passos

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-dos-passos

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/29/archives/john-dos-passos-is-dead-at-74-acclaimed-for-usa-trilogy-john-dos.html

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4202/the-art-of-fiction-no-44-john-dos-passos

Frederick Douglass

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass

Arthur Conan Doyle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/conan_sir_arthur_doyle.shtml

https://www.biography.com/writer/arthur-conan-doyle

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/houdini-conan-doyle/

https://www.arthurconandoyle.com/biography.html

http://www.acdfriends.org/acd.html

John Dryden

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-dryden

https://poets.org/poet/john-dryden

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dryden

W.E.B. Du Bois

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/web-du-bois

https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-E-B-Du-Bois

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/w-e-b-du-bois

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/

Paul Laurence Dunbar

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-laurence-dunbar

https://poets.org/poet/paul-laurence-dunbar

https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Laurence-Dunbar

Robert Duncan

https://poets.org/poet/robert-duncan

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Duncan

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/151709/an-introduction-to-the-black-mountain-school

Don DeLillo

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-v-dangerous.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Don-DeLillo

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/13/books/white-noise-by-don-delillo.html

http://events.ff.uni-mb.si/mir/files/2010/Maric_DelilloWhiteNoise.pdf

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Maria Edgeworth

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Edgeworth

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/maria-edgeworth-was-a-great-literary-celeb-why-has-she-been-forgotten-1.3760188

https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-maria-a2882

https://blogs.baylor.edu/armstrongbrowning/2013/06/19/giving-nineteenth-century-women-writers-a-voice-a-face-maria-edgeworth-1768-1849/

Jennifer Egan

https://jenniferegan.com/about/

https://jenniferegan.com/books/the-invisible-circus/

https://jenniferegan.com/books/the-candy-house/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jennifer-Egan

Ralph Ellison

https://www.read.gov/fiction/ellison.html

https://www.biography.com/writer/ralph-ellison

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Waldo-Emerson

https://poets.org/poet/ralph-waldo-emerson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ralph-waldo-emerson

Louise Erdrich

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Erdrich

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-erdrich

https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/louise-erdrich

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William Faulkner

https://www.biography.com/writer/william-faulkner

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Faulkner

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/faulkner-william-1897-1962/

https://www.pulitzer.org/article/many-guises-william-faulkner

Sarah Fielding

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-novel-children-taught-girls-power-reading-180968765/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Fielding

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://jonathansafranfoer.blogspot.com/p/biography.html

https://www.famousauthors.org/jonathan-safran-foer

https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/jonathan-safran-foer/

Ford Madox Ford

http://www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org/fords-biography.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ford-Madox-Ford

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/07/fiction.julianbarnes

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ford-madox-ford

E.M. Forster

Author bio section of A Room with a View of Barnes & Noble Classics edition

https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-M-Forster

https://www.bl.uk/people/e-m-forster

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/E._M._Forster

https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-33208

Ben Franklin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Franklin/Public-service

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/poor-richards-almanack-is-published

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305357.001.0001/acprof-9780195305357

Jonathan Franzen

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Corrections

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Franzen

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jonathan-franzen-is-battle-ready-for-the-end-of-the-world

https://www.vulture.com/2011/04/jonathan_franzen_on_david_fost.html

Charles Frazier

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/frazier-charles

https://charlesfrazier.com/about

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/inman.html

Margaret Fuller

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Fuller

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-fuller

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Elizabeth Gaskell

https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/elizabeth-gaskell/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Cleghorn-Gaskell

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unjustly-overlooked-victorian-novelist-elizabeth-gaskell

https://www.bl.uk/people/elizabeth-gaskell

Allen Ginsberg

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/allen-ginsberg

https://allenginsberg.org/biography/

https://www.biography.com/writer/allen-ginsberg

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Allen-Ginsberg

George Gissing

https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Gissing

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2004/2/remembering-george-gissing

https://victorianweb.org/authors/gissing/bio.html

Louise Glück

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/31/louise-gluck-poems-1962-2020-review-a-grand-introduction-to-the-nobel-prize-winner

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Gluck

https://english.yale.edu/people/adjunct-professors-and-senior-lecturers-creative-writers/louise-gluck

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/biographical/

William Golding

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Golding

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-golding

Jaimy Gordon

https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/writers-online/authors/jaimy-gordon

https://www.tingemagazine.org/an-interview-with-jaimy-gordon/

https://www.amazon.com/Misrule-Vintage-Contemporaries-Jaimy-Gordon/dp/0307946738

https://www.amazon.com/Bogeywoman-Vintage-Contemporaries-Jaimy-Gordon/dp/0307946894

Robert Graves

https://www.robertgraves.org/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Graves

https://poets.org/poet/robert-graves

Zane Grey

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zane-Grey

Zane Grey’s West Society bio pagehttps://www.zgws.org/zgbio.php

https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Zane_Grey

Lauren Groff

https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/learn/bookclub/pastfeatures/2008-features/monsters/bio/node/80283

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/11/lauren-groff-i-often-get-very-lonely-because-my-job-is-very-lonely

https://laurengroff.com/about/

https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast

https://www.npr.org/2015/10/27/451928229/lauren-groff-used-fates-and-furies-to-bring-feminine-rage-into-light

Abdulrazak Gurnah

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/08/nobel-winner-abdulrazak-gurnah-says-writing-cannot-be-just-about-polemics

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/bio-bibliography/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abdulrazak-Gurnah

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-20-december-abdulrazak-gurnah/

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Donald Hall

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald-hall

https://poets.org/poet/donald-hall

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/donald-halls-late-burst-of-creativity

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/obituaries/donald-hall-a-poet-laureate-of-the-rural-life-is-dead-at-89.html

Dashiell Hammett

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/tough-guy

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dashiell-hammett-about-dashiell-hammett/625/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/14/dashiell-hammetts-strange-career/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dashiell-Hammett

Nathanial Hawthorne

Author bio section of The Scarlet Letter Bantam Classic edition

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathaniel-hawthorne

https://www.biography.com/writer/nathaniel-hawthorne

https://americanliterature.com/author/nathaniel-hawthorne

Seamus Heaney

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/seamus-heaney

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/heaney/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seamus-Heaney

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/arts/seamus-heaney-acclaimed-irish-poet-dies-at-74.html

Anthony Hecht

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/books/anthony-hecht-a-formalist-poet-dies-at-81.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anthony-hecht

https://poets.org/poet/anthony-hecht

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anthony-Hecht

Geoffrey Hill

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/geoffrey-hill

https://poets.org/poet/sir-geoffrey-hill

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/geoffrey-hill-one-of-the-greatest-english-poets-dies-aged-84

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/books/geoffrey-hill-dense-and-allusive-british-poet-is-dead-at-84.html

Jane Hirshfield

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield

https://poets.org/poet/jane-hirshfield

https://www.theopennotebook.com/2020/03/10/poet-jane-hirshfield-fuses-science-loss-and-wonder-in-her-new-collection-ledger/

Thomas Hobbes

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes

https://thegreatthinkers.org/hobbes/biography/

A.E. Housman

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/complete_housman.html

https://poets.org/poet/e-housman

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/a-e-housman

https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-E-Housman

Zora Neale Hurston

http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1512

https://www.zoranealehurston.com/about/

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/zora-neale-hurston/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/zora-neale-hurston-out-of-obscurity-71489250/

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John Irving

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Irving

https://john-irving.com/

Christopher Isherwood

https://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Isherwood-British-American-author

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Berlin-Stories

https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/christopher-isherwood/

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Clive James

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/27/clive-james-obituary

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/clive-james

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/world/europe/clive-james-dead.html

Henry James

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/henry-james

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-James-American-writer/Career-middle-phase

Marlon James

https://www.macalester.edu/english/facultystaff/marlonjames/

https://www.barclayagency.com/speakers/marlon-james

https://marlonjameswriter.com/#about

William James

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-James

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/

https://www.britannica.com/science/functionalism-psychology

Honoreé Jeffers

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/honoree-fanonne-jeffers

https://poets.org/poet/honoree-fanonne-jeffers

https://honoreejeffers.com/about/

Jerome K. Jerome

https://www.gradesaver.com/author/jerome-k-jerome

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jerome-K-Jerome

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/jerome-k-jerome/

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp02421/jerome-klapka-jerome

Paulette Jiles

https://www.monroeccc.edu/one-book-one-community/2019/about-the-author

https://paulettejiles.com/pj_wp/about-paulette/

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/i-love-paulette-jiless-novels-why-wont-she-talk-to-me/

James Weldon Johnson

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/james-weldon-johnson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-weldon-johnson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Weldon-Johnson

Carroll, Richard A. “Black Racial Spirit: An Analysis of James Weldon Johnson’s Critical Perspective.” Phylon (1960-), vol. 32, no. 4, 1971, pp. 344–64. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/274059. Accessed 9 Jun. 2022.

https://poets.org/poet/james-weldon-johnson

Denis Johnson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/denis-johnson

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/books/denis-johnson-dead-author-of-jesus-son.html

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/denis-johnsons-lasting-advice

Samuel Johnson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Johnson/The-edition-of-Shakespeare

https://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/johnson.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/samuel-johnson

Ben Jonson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ben-jonson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Jonson-English-writer

https://www.bibalex.org/libraries/presentation/static/Jonson_Ben_eng_1302.pdf

Benjamin Jowett

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Jowett

https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/benjamin-jowett

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/scholars-antiquarians-and-orientalists-biographies/benjamin-jowett

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104G0F

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198266884.001.0001/acprof-9780198266884

James Joyce

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547359/facts-about-james-joyce

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Joyce

http://writersinspire.org/content/james-joyce-biography

https://www.famousauthors.org/james-joyce

Donald Justice

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald-justice

https://poets.org/poet/donald-justice

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/arts/donald-justice-78-a-poet-admired-for-precise-beauty.html

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/02/187354106/donald-justices-collected-poems-offer-refuge-from-the-rain

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John Keats

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/19/john-keats-love-letter-fanny-brawne/

https://poets.org/poet/john-keats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats

Kempe, Margery

Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors. Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, Gwen Watkins. Malor Books; 2nd ed. edition (June 2017)

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Vitto, Cindy. “Margery Kempe: Medieval Mother and Mystic.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 2, no. 2 (1991): 50–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43587263.

Randall Kenan

https://web.archive.org/web/20050413223929/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/kenan_r.html

https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/randall-kenan#/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/randall-kenan-dead.html

https://www.nclhof.org/inductees/2018-2/randall-kenan/

https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/people/randall-kenan

https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/kenan-randall-1963

http://themonti.org/storytellers/randall-kenan

John F. Kennedy

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-f-kennedy/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-F-Kennedy

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-F-Kennedy/Congressman-and-senator#ref245004

X.J. Kennedy

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/x-j-kennedy

https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/x-j-kennedy/

https://poets.org/poet/x-j-kennedy

https://www.loc.gov/item/n79018506/xj-kennedy/

Robin Wall Kimerer

https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants-2022/

https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1796-coa-to-celebrate-47th-commencement

https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/robin-wall-kimmerer

https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/about

https://www.potawatomi.org/blog/2015/11/03/q-a-with-robin-wall-kimmerer-ph-d/

https://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/

https://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/

Galway Kinnell

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galway-Kinnell

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/galway-kinnell

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/books/galway-kinnell-poet-who-went-his-own-way-dies-at-87.html

https://poets.org/poet/galway-kinnell

Barbra Kingsolver

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Kingsolver

http://barbarakingsolver.net/about/

http://barbarakingsolver.net/autobiography/#fortune

Katie Kitamura

https://www.katiekitamura.com/about

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/katie-kitamura-writes-a-world-ruled-by-charisma

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/books/katie-kitamura-intimacies.html

KJV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52c9kb70oE

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299402/preferred-bible-version-usa/

Lightfoot, Neil. “The English Bible to 1611.” How We Got The Bible, 3rd ed., e-book, Baker Books, 2003, pp. 356–60.

Phil Klay

https://imagejournal.org/artist/phil-klay/

https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/phil-klay

https://www.philklay.com/bio

Yusef Komunyakaa

https://www.rattle.com/a-conversation-with-yusef-komunyakaa/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40242793?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3A50bab9703f5e184a1ef7c945725fb7ee&seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents

Review: The Tension between Memory and Forgetting in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa - by Toi Derricotte:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4336968?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ad8d210fc386c9456c60b05b89d3d699c&seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yusef-Komunyakaa

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/yusef-komunyakaa

Rachel Kushner

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/rachel-kushners-immersive-fiction

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/books/rachel-kushner-author-of-the-flamethrowers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

https://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2013/rachel-kushner/

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Jhumpa Lahiri

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jhumpa-Lahiri

https://www.chipublib.org/jhumpa-lahiri-biography/

Harper Lee

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harper-Lee

https://www.chipublib.org/harper-lee-biography/

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/16/8974447/harper-lee-go-set-a-watchman-racism-controversy

Jill Lepore

https://scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore/biocv

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/6/harvard-historian-book-jill-lepore/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/books/review/jill-lepore-by-the-book-interview.html

Sinclair Lewis

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sinclair-Lewis

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/biographical/

https://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/sinclair_lewis/recipes.shtml

Abraham Lincoln

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abraham-lincoln

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Lincoln/Reputation-and-character

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/abraham-lincoln/

John Locke

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke

https://iep.utm.edu/locke/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/

Jack London

https://www.biography.com/writer/jack-london

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-London

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/short-heroic-rags-riches-life-jack-london-180961200/

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/this-week-in-history-jack-london-writer-socialist-is-born/

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/henry-wadsworth-longfellow

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow

https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/henry-wadsworth-longfellow.htm

https://poets.org/poet/henry-wadsworth-longfellow

https://www.hwlongfellow.org/life_overview.shtml

Anita Loos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/08/20/the-loos-legend/86f08486-c2fa-4960-994e-777cce27e094/

https://scriptmag.com/history/women-prefer-anita-loos

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-anita-loos/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anita-Loos

Amy Lowell

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-lowell

Moore, Honor. “Amy Lowell.” Harvard Review, no. 27, 2004, pp. 90–103. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27568937. Accessed 2 Jun. 2022.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Imagists

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amy-Lowell

https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-imagism

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Carmen Machado

https://orionmagazine.org/contributor/carmen-maria-machado/

https://carmenmariamachado.com/biography

https://carmenmariamachado.com/honors

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/03/pleasure-principles-interview-carmen-maria-machado/

Judith Madan

https://dbpedia.org/page/Judith_Madan

https://orlando.cambridge.org/index.php/profiles/madaju

https://www.howold.co/person/judith-madan/biography

https://allpoetry.com/Judith-Madan

Norman Mailer

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norman-Mailer

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/norman-mailer-a-brief-history-of-norman-mailer/653/

https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mailer.html

Megha Majumdar

https://www.meghamajumdar.com/aboutandcontact

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/09/montage-megha-majumdar

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/megha-majumdar-s-debut-novel-exposes-the-dark-reality-behind-india-s-prosperity-24040

Thomas Malory

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Malory

https://www.worldhistory.org/Thomas_Malory/

David Mamet

https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Mamet

https://www.americantheatre.org/2022/05/24/david-mamet-and-the-stupid-fing-words/

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Lo-Ma/Mamet-David.html

Emily St. John Mandel: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rewriting-of-emily-st-john-mandel

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/06/arthur-c-clarke-award-station-eleven-emily-st-john-mandel

https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/emily-st-john-mandel

http://www.emilymandel.com/#

Hilary Mantel

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/books/hilary-mantel-mirror-and-the-light-thomas-cromwell.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Mantel

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/22/hilary-mantel-ive-got-quite-amused-at-people-saying-i-have-writers-block-ive-been-like-a-factory

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/i-taught-shakespeare-in-botswana.html

Peter Matthiesen

https://www.npr.org/2014/04/06/297154718/peter-matthiessen-co-founder-of-the-paris-review-dies-at-86

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Matthiessen

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/06/peter-matthiessen

Colum McCann

https://egs.edu/biography/colum-mccann/

http://colummccann.com/about-colum/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/may/25/colum-mccann-life-in-writing

Cormac McCarthy

https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/biography/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cormac-McCarthy

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/texas/articles/cormac-mccarthy-reinventing-the-southern-gothic/

https://radicalscholarship.com/2015/07/30/cormac-mccarthys-mostly-white-male-mythology-rethinking-the-canon/

Harold Bloom, The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread. Knopf. New York. 2020.

Elizabeth McCracken

https://elizabethmccracken.com/about/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/09/elizabeth-mccracken-interview-bowlaway

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/elizabeth-mccracken-bowlaway/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98610156

John McCrae

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-mccrae

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/people-and-stories/john-mccrae#mccrae1

Carson McCullers

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/12/03/unhappy-endings

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carson-McCullers

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/carson-mccullers-1917-1967/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/02/03/the-closeting-of-carson-mccullers/

https://www.georgiawomen.org/carson-mccullers

Alice McDermott

https://www.alice-mcdermott.com/about

https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-alice-mcdermott/

nationalbook.org/people/alice-mcdermott/

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/alice-mcdermott-interviewed/

Herman Melville

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whaling-biography-herman-melville/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herman-Melville/The-years-of-withdrawal

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/

James Merrill

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Merrill

https://poets.org/poet/james-merrill

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-merrill

Henry Miller

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Miller

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/06/09/archives/henry-miller-88-dies-in-california-a-credo-of-hedonism-henry-miller.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/22/neil-pearson-why-i-love-henry-miller

Lydia Millet

https://lydiamillet.net/

https://www.nationalbook.org/people/lydia-millet/

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/lydia-millet-discusses-her-new-novel-of-teens-biblical-allusions-and-plausible-environmental-disaster-24048

L.M. Montgomery

https://lmmontgomery.ca/about/lmm/her-life

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucy-Maud-Montgomery

Marianne Moore

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/marianne-moore/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marianne-Moore

https://poets.org/poet/marianne-moore

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marianne-moore

https://history.pcusa.org/blog/2022/03/marianne-moore-gardens-and-toads

Henry Morley

https://victorianweb.org/authors/morley/bio.html

https://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/henry-morley.html

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/articles/individuals/morley_henry.htm

Toni Morrison

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead.html

Thylias Moss

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/className-of-1996/thylias-moss#searchresults

https://poets.org/poet/thylias-moss

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thylias-moss

https://abstractmagazinetv.com/2018/06/21/feature-thylias-moss/

Iris Murdoch

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Iris-Murdoch

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/murdoch/#Over

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/13/iris-murdoch-100-books-full-passion-disaster

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/books/in-praise-of-iris-murdoch.html

Paul Muldoon

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-muldoon

https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/about-paul-muldoon

N

V.S. Naipaul

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/obituaries/vs-naipaul-dead-author-nobel-prize.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2001/naipaul/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-S-Naipaul

Ogden Nash

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ogden-Nash

https://poets.org/poet/ogden-nash

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/20/archives/ogden-nash-master-of-light-verse-dies-ogden-nash-master-of-light.html

Howard Nemerov

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/howard-nemerov

https://poetryarchive.org/poet/howard-nemerov/

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/obituaries/howard-nemerov-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-recipient-dies-at-71.html

https://poets.org/poet/howard-nemerov

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Nemerov

Sigrid Nunez

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7906/the-art-of-fiction-no-254-sigrid-nunez

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/books/the-friend-sigrid-nunez.html?searchResultPosition=3

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/926139571/novelist-sigrid-nunez-on-climate-change-mortality-and-life-in-a-pandemic

https://sigridnunez.com/bio/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/07/what-are-you-going-through-by-sigrid-nunez-review-questions-of-survival

O

Joyce Carol Oates

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joyce-Carol-Oates

https://achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/

Barack Obama

https://lithub.com/how-obamas-reading-shaped-his-writing/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/barack-obama/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barack-Obama

Edna O’Brien

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edna-OBrien

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/edna-obrien

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/25/edna-obrien-interview-new-novel-girl-sean-ohagan

Tim O’Brien

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-OBrien

https://www.chipublib.org/tim-obrien-biography/

John O’Hara

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/summer/feature/john-o’hara-wrote-about-the-things-rich-people-do-why-isn’t-he-still-famous

https://www.biblio.com/john-ohara/author/563

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/neglected-john-ohara/

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/he-told-the-truth-about-his-time

Tommy Orange

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2156371/tommy-orange/

https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/tommy-orange

https://www.bookweb.org/news/qa-tommy-orange-author-junes-1-indie-next-list-pick-104530

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/tommy-orange

P

Thomas Love Peacock

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-love-peacock

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/thomas-love-peacock

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Love-Peacock

Maxwell Perkins

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maxwell-Perkins

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Maxwell_Perkins

https://lithub.com/on-max-perkins-one-of-americas-greatest-editors/

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/11/481545703/the-editors-epic-maxwell-perkins-makes-for-an-unlikely-big-screen-hero

Carl Phillips

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carl-phillips

https://poets.org/poet/carl-phillips

https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/carl-phillips/

Julia Philps

https://www.montclair.k12.nj.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=889560&pageId=24607250

https://www.businessinsider.com/national-book-award-shortlist-julia-phillips-disappearing-earth-kamchatka-2019-11

https://www.juliaphillipswrites.com/about.html

Richard Powers

http://www.richardpowers.net/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/16/richard-powers-interview-overstory

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/books/richard-powers-bewilderment.html

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/298/the-art-of-fiction-no-175-richard-powers

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/08/the-archive-project-richard-powers/

E. Annie Proulx

https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Annie-Proulx

https://www.nationalbook.org/people/e-annie-proulx/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/05/annie-proulx-ive-had-a-life-i-see-how-slippery-things-can-be

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Adrienne Rich

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adrienne-Rich

https://poets.org/poet/adrienne-rich

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/adrienne-rich

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/the-long-awakening-of-adrienne-rich

Samuel Richardson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Richardson

Sally Rooney

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/books/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head

https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-me/

Norman Rush

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/magazine/norman-rushs-brilliantly-broken-promise.html

https://www.npr.org/2013/09/08/219659805/10-years-one-book-norman-rush-brews-a-literary-distillation

https://www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/author/?authorid=26488

Salman Rushdie

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/15/salman-rushdie-i-am-stupidly-optimistic-it-got-me-through-those-bad-years

https://www.salmanrushdie.com/salman-rushdie-the-author/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salman-Rushdie

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/books/review-languages-of-truth-salman-rushdie-essays.html

S

J.D. Salinger

https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-D-Salinger

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/who-was-j-d-salinger

Sir Walter Scott

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Scott

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Lay-of-the-Last-Minstrel

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Sir-Walter-Scott/

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Walter_Scott

Duns Scotus

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/

https://iep.utm.edu/john-duns-scotus/

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05194a.htm

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/blessed-john-duns-scotus

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blessed-John-Duns-Scotus

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-duns-scotus

https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/j/john-duns-scotus-on-the-immaculate-conception.php

Mary Lee Settle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/09/29/novelist-mary-lee-settle/2b54dfe3-9fca-4e49-b002-6ff1613d6209/

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/10/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/books/mary-lee-settle-87-author-of-beulah-novels-is-dead.html

Thomas Shadwell

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Shadwell

https://mypoeticside.com/poets/thomas-shadwell-poems

https://emnon.as.ua.edu/timeline/thomas-shadwell-1642-1692/

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

George Barnard Shaw

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1925/shaw/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bernard-Shaw

https://www.biography.com/writer/george-bernard-shaw

Mary Shelley

https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley

https://www.bl.uk/people/mary-shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley

https://www.bl.uk/people/percy-bysshe-shelley

https://poets.org/poet/percy-bysshe-shelley

Upton Sinclair

http://pressinamerica.pbworks.com/w/page/18360241/Upton%20Sinclair

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Upton-Sinclair

https://www.biography.com/writer/upton-sinclair

Tracy K. Smith

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tracy-k-smith

https://poets.org/poet/tracy-k-smith

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tracy-K-Smith

W.D. Snodgrass

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/arts/15snodgrass.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-D-Snodgrass

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/w-d-snodgrass

https://poets.org/poet/w-d-snodgrass

Gary Snyder

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gary-Snyder

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gary-snyder

Susan Sontag

Scott, A.O. How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think. “The New York Times”. October 8, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/08/magazine/susan-sontag.html

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Mackenzie, Suzie. Finding fact from fiction. “The Guardian”. May 26, 2000. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/may/27/fiction.features

Edmund Spenser

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Spenser

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edmund-spenser

https://poets.org/poet/edmund-spenser

https://englishhistory.net/poets/edmund-spenser/

William Stafford

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-e-stafford

https://poets.org/poet/william-stafford

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Stafford

https://www.williamstafford.org/about

Gertrude Stein

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertrude-stein

https://www.biography.com/writer/gertrude-stein

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Stein

https://poets.org/poet/gertrude-stein

John Steinbeck

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1962/summary/

https://www.steinbeck.org/

Author bio section of East of Eden John Steinbeck Centennial Edition

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Steinbeck

https://www.biography.com/writer/john-steinbeck

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1962/steinbeck/biographical/

https://steinbeck.stanford.edu/writer

https://www.steinbeck.org/about/

Gloria Steinem

http://www.gloriasteinem.com/about

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gloria-Steinem

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/gloria-steinem

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/how-gloria-steinem-became-worlds-most-famous-feminist

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/steinem-gloria

https://msmagazine.com/2019/05/07/we-heart-gloria-steinems-moment-when/

Laurence Sterne

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Laurence_Sterne

https://www.bl.uk/people/laurence-stern

https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk

Bram Stoker

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bram_Stoker

https://www.bramstokerestate.com/life

https://www.npr.org/2008/10/30/96282132/defining-dracula-a-century-of-vampire-evolution

https://classic-literature.co.uk/bram-stoker-biography/

William Styron

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Styron

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/william-styron-about-william-styron/714/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/books/02styron.html

Vita Sackville-West

https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-Sackville-West

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03/31/the-fabulous-forgotten-life-of-vita-sackville-west/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-sackville-west

T

Ida Tarbell

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ida-Tarbell

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rockefellers-tarbell/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-took-on-the-tycoon-651396/

Randolph, Josephine (April 1999). "A Notable Pennsylvanian: Ida Minerva Tarbell, 1857–1944". Pennsylvania History.

Booth Tarkington

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/the-rise-and-fall-of-booth-tarkington

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Booth-Tarkington

Henry David Thoreau

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/#LifeWrit

https://www.thoreausociety.org/life-legacy

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Legacy

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Move-to-Walden-Pond#ref274858

Dylan Thomas

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dylan-Thomas

https://www.discoverdylanthomas.com/works/screenplays

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dylan-thomas

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

http://www.nafissathompsonspires.com/about-the-author.html

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Heads-of-the-Colored-People/Nafissa-Thompson-Spires/9781501168000

J.R.R. Tolkien

Shippey, Tom (2000). J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Zaleski, Philip; Zaleski, Carol (2016). The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Biography from The Tolkien Society website https://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/biography/