Index of Authors, Editors and Translators

Links to information on authors

Pseudonyms

Author pseudonyms http://www.trussel.com/books/aka.htm

New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm  Catalog of all deceased authors, and all authors of books published thru 1963, including their full name(s), date of death, date of birth, pseudonyms, sex & nationality (for non-EU citizens who died after c1920), and their books published thru 1963. 

Author pseudonyms (mostly modern) http://www.bookbrowser.com/Pseudonyms/ 

Biographies and book overviews

Information on very many authors at http://www.geometry.net/book_author/ and http://www.geometry.net/authors/ two indexes, not containing all included on each.

Biography.com  http://www.biography.com/ 

BookRags  http://www.bookrags.com Free booknotes online. Over 150 literature study guides include chapter summaries, character and objects, topic tracking, author biography, plot summary, and important quotes.

BBC books by author  http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/ BBC webguide at http://www.bbc.co.uk/webguide/arts/subcat.shtml?authors/ab/0 Children's authors http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/genre/children/authors.shtml 

University of Toronto English Library http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/indexauthors.html Author Index which leads off to biographic pages. (Getting to the texts of books etc requires specific passwords etc- so texts not generally available) 

Biographies (classical fiction authors) http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosFiction.htm 

Bibliomania www.Bibliomania.com 

Biographies http://aolsvc.aol.infoplease.com/people.html of notable writers on AOL at http://aolsvc.aol.infoplease.com/spot/writerbio1.html

Author guides http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html

Authors calendar http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm

The Victorian Web http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/index.html

From revolution to reconstruction – biographies http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm (# by literary biographies)

Author Pages on the WWW http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/author.htm

Little Blue Light – http://www.littlebluelight.com Introductions to a number of international authors, including biographies, major works summaries, and discussions of themes, styles and criticism--all brief. Few authors covered.

Women

Distinguished Women past and present http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

The Celebration of Women Writers http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women 

Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html

19^th Century Women writers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/wives/writers.html (9 authors/pictures)

BBC women writers http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/

More specialist biography's

English and Irish authors on the web by date band of year of birth http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

Literary Resources -- Victorian British http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html

Midlands Literary Heritage website http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/creative.htm 

American authors on the web by year band of birth http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html wider source at http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html

Academy of achievement  http://www.achievement.org/ books that changed lives  http://www.achievement.org/library/frames.html

The Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/ 

Fiction magazines index http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/0start.htm#TOC

Start for finding very many more lists of sites for authors in 3 different ways

Search area on authors http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/cat.adp?id=910 or http://search.aol.co.uk/cat.adp?id=910

Author Catalogs http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/authors.htm Portal of many links to other author lists by country and many other classifications.

The index site for the Worldwide-Library at www.worldwide-library.com  it indexes you to all the sites by function

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