Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Fredric Brown
This site includes a biography of the writer Fredric Brown. Included towards the end of the article is a list of his books. Good overall and very factual.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Tomie De Paola's Biography
This resource features a booklist for Tomie dePaola. There is a summary and a picture of each book.
University of Pennsylvania
Romanticism: Authors
This resource provides links to many authors of the Romantic era. Biographies, works, and portraits are displayed for each author.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: (Harry) Sinclair Lewis
A short biography, a list of selected works, and a list for further reading of the famous American novelist and playwright, Sinclair Lewis.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Charles Dickens Biography
Interesting biographical information, list of works, and famous quotes about Charles Dickens, renowned British author.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: j.k. Rowling Biography
Useful biographical information and interesting facts about J.K. Rowling, the famous British author of the Harry Potter book series.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: James Boswell
A brief biography on the life and times of James Boswell, lawyer, essayist and author of The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society: The Battle of Bunker Hill: Biographies Mercy Otis Warren
These biographies includes a very short bio on Warren (1748-1814 CE), a spirited female author who published a three-volume history of the American Revolution.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Books and Writers: Virgil Biography and Quotes
A detailed biography of the ancient Roman writer Virgil complemented by selected quotes from his works. Also provides a bibliography.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Jonathan Swift: A Brief Biography
A biography of the life and works of Irish author Jonathan Swift.
Other
About the Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Brief biographical page offers some background about Ms. Haddix and the awards she's won, along with a link to a full biography.
Other
Hall of Fame Biographies: Nadine Gordimer
A concise description of Nadin Gordimer, a South African author, who became the first South African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Other
Insite.com: Lewis Carroll Biography
This site has a brief biography of Lewis Carroll (1832-1898 CE), the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking Glass."
Other
Encyclopedia of World Biography: James Joyce
Biographical information about the life and works of author James Joyce.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Thomas Paine
Students can learn about the biography of Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and Founding Father during the Revolutionary War on this site.
C-SPAN
C Span: American Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Contains a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940 CE), list of works, and links to additional information on the author.
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