This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Frank Yerby, an American author of popular historical fiction.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Hinton Rowan Helper, the only prominent American Southern author to attack slavery before the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-65). His thesis widely influenced Northern opinion...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Leon Forrest, an African-American author of large, inventive novels that fuse myth, history, legend, and contemporary realism.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Mari Evans, an African American author of poetry, children's literature, and plays.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features E. Lynn Harris, an American author, who in a series of novels drew on his personal familiarity with the gay community to chronicle the struggles faced by African-American men with sexual...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among...

This site provides an extensive list of links to others sites about author Amy Tan, with brief biographical information.

This site provides an extensive list of links to others sites about author Amy Tan, with brief biographical information.

The Literature Network profiles Ambrose Bierce, an American author of the Civil War and postwar period and includes a photograph, biography, and to selected works.