The alphabet bar below links to biographical and critical information, e-texts and lesson plans related to specific authors. Special collections are listed below the alphabet bar. Young Adult Fiction and Children's Lit are included on separate pages. General resources in Literature are also available.

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  • Chinua Achebe
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Maya Angelou
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Jane Austen
  • Sir Francis Bacon
  • James Baldwin
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Emily Brontë
  • Octavia Butler
  • Albert Camus
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Willa Cather
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Kate Chopin
  • Sandra Cisneros
  • Joseph Conrad
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Stephen Crane
  • Dante
  • Charles Dickens
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Ralph Ellison
  • William Faulkner
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Anne Frank
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Ernest J. Gaines
  • William Golding
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • O. Henry
  • Herman Hesse
  • Langston Hughes
  • Victor Hugo
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Washington Irving
  • James Joyce
  • Franz Kafka
  • Ken Kesey
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Barbara Kingsolver
  • John Knowles
  • Harper Lee
  • Jack London
  • Yann Martel
  • Herman Melville
  • N. Scott Momaday
  • Toni Morrison
  • Tim O'Brien
  • George Orwell
  • Alan Paton
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Ayn Rand
  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • J. D. Salinger
  • Mary Shelley
  • Leslie Marmon Silko
  • John Steinbeck
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Amy Tan
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • James Thurber
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mark Twain
  • Jules Verne
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • H. G. Wells
  • Edith Wharton
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Richard Wright