Wikipedia overview in Spanish of American literature from its roots to contemporary authors and themes. This entry is a broad sweep -- no era is covered in depth but it's a helpful "big picture" view for Spanish-speaking students, with...

This site contains a nice collection of children's poems in Spanish. It features poems by the author Gloria Fuertes.

This page has a brief bibliography of the Spanish composer and author of some of the operettas Pablo Sorozabal.

This is a collection of sonnets by authors of Hispanic literature.

Site for fans of Cri-Cri, el Grillito Cantor (The Singer Cricket). Find information on ordering CDs and books, sign up for email updates, and enter Cri Cri's house to learn more about the author, Francisco Gabilondo.

Online biography in Spanish from Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes of the twentieth century Argentine writer Roberto Arlt. There are also links to additional biographical information and to some of his articles and stories in Spanish.

A brief account of the life and works of Spanish writer Cervantes (1547-1616), author of Don Quixote.

Article written for the April, 1898 issue of American Monthly Review of Reviews expressing the author's opinion on reasons for the blowing up of the U.S.S. Maine, and what U.S. action should be.

This site provides information in Spanish on Isabel Allende, the Chilean writer. Features include a chronology, interviews, photographs, and summaries of her novels, stories, and plays. English version available.

Read the short story "A Charmed Life" by Richard Harding Davis about the dangers faced by a war correspondent during the Spanish American War.

This resource features Native American activist, Bartolome de las Casas, one of the first Europeans to speak on cruelty directed towards the Native Americans. Click on "Bartolome de las Casas Activites" for related artifacts and activities.

Explorer Cabeza de Vaca is considered the first true Chicano writer, having been born in Spain and then absorbed into the Native American culture, highlighting this new culture in his writings. Click on "Cabeza de Vaca Activities" for...

This is a short biography of the Puerto Rican writer Jose de Diego.

In Spanish. This site pays tribute to Mario Benedetti, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar and Jose Emilio Pacheco through his poetry and short stories. A biography with a timeline and a questionnaire is also provided.

This Nobel site contains a short biographical sketch of the nonfiction prize winner, along with a list of works.

This resource has a short biography of Borges. The hypertext here includes two copies of his original work including Borges' own drawings.

Discusses controversies around the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, the manual used during the European witch hunts to identify and convict witches. Other sections of the site provide the complete Malleus Maleficarum, in sections as...

Exciting site with vivid information about Cuscatlan. Contains links to the works of many artists and authors with sections on their personal lives. Written in Spanish.

Scholarly paper giving a comprehensivewe defense of the idea that a chronic affective deficit is the main cause of non-infectious illnesses and behavior dysfunctions. The authors believe that this is an example of how Biopsychology can...

The African Library focuses on the elaboration of a body of literature in Spanish written by authors of African origin.

Students are curious about drugs and this is a simple site that delves into what they need to know: what drugs are good and what drugs are harmful, what are illegal drugs, like heroin and marijuana, and why are they illegal. The authors...

Francisco Goya created the aquatint series The Disasters of War from 1810 to 1820 using the techniques of etching and drypoint. The images remain shocking today, and even influenced the novel of famous American author Ernest Hemingway,...

This site has a collection of many Spanish poems. It also contains a brief biography of each of the authors.

In Spanish. In this site by reading fragments of three different authors: Codice Ramirez, Fray Diego Duran and Francisco Javier Clavijero you can learn about the history of Tenochtitlan.