Author Biographies for Young Adults from NoveList
These biographical sketches providing brief introductions to the authors
and their works are designed to offer an appreciation of an author's work
and some insight into the connections between his or her life and work.
Read about authors like Judy Blume, John Steinbeck, Gary Paulson, Jack
London & more.
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Titles and Topics -> click Author Biographies for Young Adults.
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Literary Criticism & Biography
Access Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism
Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the Twayne
Authors Series from home plus additional online and print resources.
NetLibrary
eBooks – Cliffs Notes
Access to the full text Cliffs Notes for almost 200 literary works!
Play
Index
Search this index for individual plays contained in books of play collections.
Most of the play collections indexed here are available for check-out.
Plot
Summaries
This page includes websites and books that can give you a great summaries
to start and finish your research project!
Quotations
Resource Guide
Trying to remember a quote or find that perfect quote just got a lot
easier with these online and print resources.
Shakespeare
Resource Guide
If you need help understanding a Shakespearean character or play,
this webpage will provide websites with quote finders, costume photographs
from actual productions, timelines, reviews and more!
Specific
Literatures
Here you’ll find resource guides on African-American, American
Indian, American, British, Hispanic, and World
Literature.
Types
of Literature
Here you’ll find resource guides on Drama, Poetry, Short
Stories and Speeches.
Web Sites
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Featuring 48 authors, this online literature project concentrates mainly on poetry and includes works by Frost, Shakespeare, and Whitman, as well as poetry anthologies.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/
A site on To Kill an Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The site was created by students for a ThinkQuest Project. Most useful for the study of the novel and the film.
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/
An electronic text of Austen's poems, letters, excerpts from her novels and literary criticism.
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/
Basic guide to writing an essay. Includes a sample basic essay and links to additional essay resource titles.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
From resources at the University of Virginia, this site includes texts, manuscripts, reviews, articles, and images about the writings of Mark Twain.
Shakespearean Plays
Online catalog of Shakespeare’s plays arranged by tragedy, comedy, and history.
Monologues
Search for monologues, arranged by those for men or women and sub-arranged by comedic, dramatic or classic.
Speech Topics
This site offers more than 2,500 ideas for speech topics.
Sample Research Topics
Topic 1: Compare and contrast a real
life person and a literary character.
Topic
2: Where do I find criticism
about the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, and how do I use it in a paper?
Topic
3: I'm preparing for college.
What are some award winning books or required reading for teens?
Topic
4: I need to study and analyze a
Roman or Greek myth.