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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
---contains more than 300 chapters on English and American literature and includes a wide selection of articles on orators, historians, philosophers, poets, newspaper columnists, novelists, essayists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
IIP: Publications: Outline of American Literature - Contents
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm
---looks at the history of American literature from the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and songs of Indian cultures to the prose and poetry of the1980s, and includes brief accounts of prominent writers of each time period.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: 1920-1929
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920.htm
---juxtaposes the political and social history of the 1920s with pieces of literature written at the time and provides links to events, authors, and literary works.
Welcome to the Colonial American Literature E-zine!
http://caxton.stockton.edu/HS2/
---features brief biographies and lists of works of the most important men and women writers of the colonial period, 1607–1765.
The American Spirit in Literature
http://www.authorama.com/american-spirit-in-literature-1.html
---includes the full text of Bliss Perry’s The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, chronicling American literature from the early Colonial period to the end of the Civil War.
Colonial America, 1607-1783: Literature
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19
---contains 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers, providing access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities, and including poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises.
• Sherwood Anderson
• Ray Bradbury
• Raymond Chandler
• Hart Crane
• John Dos Passos
• T. S. Eliot
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Dashiell Hammett
• Jack London
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Ezra Pound
• Gertrude Stein
• Mark Twain
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/shanders.htm
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
http://www.raybradbury.com
Raymond Chandler
Authors and Creators: Raymond Chandler
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/chandler.html
Raymond Chandler
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Chandler.HTM
Raymond Chandler Profile Bio and Essay
http://www.mysterynet.com/books/testimony/chandler.shtml
Hart Crane
Hart Crane
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/crane/crane.htm
The Academy of American Poets - Hart Crane
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/233
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
http://www.csupomona.edu/~rljohnson/Professional/DosPassos.html
T. S. Eliot
The Academy of American Poets - T. S. Eliot
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18
The Academy of American Poets - T. S. Eliot
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18
F. Scott Fitzgerald
USC: F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
Fitzgerald as Novelist Bryant Mangum
http://bryant.mangum.com/fitznov.htm
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/gatsby.htm
F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/fitzgeraldbio.html
The Sensible Thing: Biographies
http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html
American Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_f_
homepage.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald Links
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tdlarson/fsf/links.htm
Dashiell Hammett
American Masters: Dashiell Hammett | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/hammett_d.html
Authors and Creators: Dashiell Hammett
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/hammett.html
Dashiell Hammett
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dhammett.htm
Dashiell Hammett
http://www.mysterynet.com/hammett
Dashiell Hammett
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Hammett.HTM
Jack London
The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London
Edgar Allen Poe
Short Stories : Edgar Allan Poe
http://classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.6/aut.8
iction of Edgar Allan Poe
http://etext.virginia.edu/poe/PoeFiction.html
Ezra Pound
The Academy of American Poets - Ezra Pound
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/16
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stein/stein.htm
The World of Gertrude Stein: Biography of an Early Twentieth Century Author and Legend
http://ellensplace.net/gstein1.html
The Academy of American Poets - Gertrude Stein
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/315
Mark Twain
Mark Twain and His Times
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html