19th Century Authors in UK
A Student's History of American Literature - Very good resource for a general overview of American Lit, broken down into time periods.
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - A listing of authors in the science fiction and fantasy genres with bibliographies and relevant links.
American Authors - The American Authors site contains pages on individual authors. Each page contains a picture (when available), links to works online, and other information; most pages also contain a selected bibliography of secondary criticism.
American Authors on the Web - General resources
American Drama - American Drama solicits scholarly studies of dramatic literature from the earliest to the most recent playwrights, featuring critical examination of trends and discussions of diversity... "
American Literature Chronology - Index - American Literature Anthology Writers' Index
American Literature Survey Site - Surveys American Literature from the late 19th to early 20th century. Includes full-text of several novels.
American Literature, 1860-present - This site contains pages for many American writers who lived and wrote after 1860. You'll also find pages for links, an historical supplement, and literary terms.
American Studies Web: Literature and Hypertext - The inexhaustible site from Yale doctoral candidate, David Phillips.
Australian Society of Authors
Author Directory - From Bookbug on the Web
Author Guru Is In
Author's Pen
Author's Realm - Site where authors can post excerpts of their work (published and non), and where readers can find up and coming writers. Site also offers, writing resources, publishing info, food sites, news, astrology.
Authors and Illustrators on the Web - Extensive directory of author sites at the Children's Literature Web Guide.
Authors Speak - interviews
AuthorZone.com
Autores - in Portugal
Avon Ladies - Avon Romance Author's Homes, Contests and Games.
Bastulli Mystery Library - Focused on mystery writers. Provides information, bibliographies, reviews and links.
Black History and Literature - Literature and History written by and on African Americans
Bogcaféen
Bohemian Ink
Book Cafe - links
Bookbug's Author of the Month - Featured romance authors. Notes from the authors, bibilographies, excerpts.
Books n' Bytes - Informational site specializing in SF, fantasy, and mysteries with author info pages with official websites, books, series, convention appearances, and fan site links.
BooksnBytes SFF Author Pages - Informational site specializing in SF, fantasy, and mysteries with author info pages with official websites, books, series, convention appearances, and fan site links.
BookWire Author Indexes
Bouquet Authors Romance Authors
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Culture, Pre-1620 to 1920 - The Brief Timeline includes events in American history and literature, with links to pages on literary movements, bibliographies, and individual authors.
British Authors on the Web
British Literature (articles) - Articles published by academics - both Turkish and non-Turkish - working in Turkey.
British Poetry 1780-1910 - A hypertext archive of scholarly editions: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
Canadian Authors - Page highlighting some Canadian authors, mainly of the mystery genre. Includes bios, bibliographies, and photos.
Catharton Authors
Central Booking.com
Cherry Ames Series - Devoted to the juvenile series about a mystery-solving nurse, written by Helen Wells and Julie Tatham, from 1943 to 1968.
Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators - From the Internet School Library Media Center.
Children's Literature Authors & Illustrators - An extensive personal selection of links to author and author-related websites.
Columbia University: Project Bartleby - Dickinson, Homer, Keats, Melville, Shelley, Whitman, Wilde, Wordsworth
Corwin's AuthorWeb
Crime Writers of Canada
CyberSpace Spinner Archive of Horror and Fantasy Fiction - This website includes a directory of horror and fantasy author pseudonyms, as well a complete listing of winners of the Horror Writers' Association's Stoker Awards.
CyberSpace Spinner Archive of Speculative Fiction - This web resource includes a listing of sf author-pseudonyms as well as complete listings of Hugo and Nebula Award winning stories and authors (up to 1997).
DarkEcho - Interviews, articles and a newsletter about the people involved in the horror field
Database of Women in American Literature
Dell Romance Author's - Over 20 authors webpages,and a cafe to talk with them.
Documenting the American South: A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920 - "The "Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920" documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works."
Doug's Library - A collection of reviews of dozens of books by dozens of sf writers, written by this site's webmaster over a span of years.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals: Ancient papyri (from Herculaneum), Celtic and other medieval manuscripts.
Electronic Archives Home Page - "The Electronic Archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States."
English Literature and Religion - Bibliography in PDF format and links.
Famous Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers - List of the most famous science fiction/fantasy writers, along with major works, awards, and religious affilation.
Fantastic Fiction - A large bibliographical index of authors of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Fantasy Archives - This site contains information about various fantasy writers.
Fantasy Authors - ". . . latest genre news, book reviews, authors presented with biography, bibliography, news, interviews, book reveiews . . . ." At sffworld.com.
Femmes Fatales - Group website for authors Sujata Massey, Charlene Harris, Teri Holbrook, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Toni L. P. Keller, D. R. Meredith, Marlys Miller, and Susan Rogers Cooper. Features author information and a newsletter.
Great Writers and Poets
Heartsong Presents Authors Homepage - The place to meet many of the authors who write Heartsong's Contemporary and Historical Inspirational Romance novels.
History of English Studies - Texts on the subject of historicism and the canon.
Horror Writer's Association - A forum to bring writers and others with a professional interest in horror together and to foster a greater appreciation of dark fiction in general.
Individual Author Guides
Inkspot Children's Author Directory - Alphabetically-sorted web directory of authors.
Internet Directory of Published Writers
Learning About the Author and Illustrator - Focusing on authors known for writing children's literature, these pages provide brief autobiographical and bibliographical material on a huge number of authors. Part of Kay E. Vandergrift's children's literature site.
Literary Kicks - Kerouac, Ginsburg, Corso,...
Literary Menagerie, The
Literary Movements in American Literature - The Literary Movements site contains brief essays on movements and important concepts in American literature. Each page also contains links to a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading and links to outside sites.
Literati.net
Mikael's Fantasy Home Page - A personal homepage devoted to several fantasy authors, including artwork inspired by their writings from various sources as well as the site author's own reviews and commentary.
Mississippi Writers
Missouri Writes for Kids - Organization introduces children to Missouri authors through events and contests.
MIT Libraries: Literature Resources - This is a collection of internet resources devoted primarily to English and American literatures.
Mystery Authors - Group of diverse authors. Includes information about their novels, reviews, author biographies, signings and appearances.
Mystery Women Authors - Information about women authors and their novels, organized alphabetically and by characters.
Noel Carroll Home Page - Noel Carroll, author of suspense thriller novels and science fiction novels and short stories.
Oubliette, The
Outline of American Literature - By Kathryn VanSpanckeren, a historical account of American literature, including 20th Century prose and poetry. Published by the United States Information Agency.
Port Town Publishing - Port Town Publishing is a small publishing house located in Superior, WI. PTP publishes 4-5 titles per year. Genre fiction only, please. New, unpublished authors welcome. All requested manuscripts will receive a "serious" read. Sumission Guidelines and Port Town Publishing titles available for purchase on the site.
Pseudonyms of Horror and Fantasy Writers - Known pseudonyms
Recommended Fantasy Authors List - An extensive list of fantasy authors, with brief bibliographies/publication credits and links to offsite authors' homepages, etc.
Reed, Mary and Mayer, Eric - Contains information about fiction, personal essays on a variety of topics and an interactive mystery game.
Reporters Network, The
RWTP Published Author Showcase - Published author news from Romance Writers of the Texas Panhandle
Salute to the Women of Mystery - A growing online directory of women mystery authors with women sleuths. Includes book reviews and related links.
Science Fiction and Fantasy World - Book reviews, featured authors, interviews, news, articles, free eZine and much more.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Authors - A large bibliographical index of authors of fantastic fiction, including information on how to purchase books online.
Scottish Writers
SF and Fantasy Authors Who Are Characters in Movies - List of real-life sf/f authors who are major characters in feature films: H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Anne Perry, Ayn Rand, William Shatner and more.
SFF Net People - A large collection of links to individual author websites and homepages, sorted alphabetically for convenience.
SFWA - "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc." The sf & fantasy equivalent of the Writers' Guild.
Shiba Hill
Spacelight: Science Fiction & Fantasy Biographical Data - Library of vital statistics and obituary data for science fiction & fantasy writers, artists, and editors.
Special Edition Authors - Silhouette Special Edition upcoming books.
Tart City - Combined site by Sparkle Hayter, Katy Munger and Lauren Henderson. Includes information on other female authors who write crime fiction with a sassy, humorous attitude.
Temptation Authors - 'Temptation Authors' features authors of Harlequin Temptation® line of romantic books. Let us lead you into Temptation!
The Author Corner - Emphasizes "Mid-Atlantic" children's authors, but includes links for many other children's authors as well.
The BookWire Mailing List Index
The BookWire Newsgroup Index
The Classic Horror and Fantasy Page - An extensive directory of internet resources for often hard-to-find texts of older works of fantastic fiction.
The Clifton Waller Barrett Library - It contains, insofar as it has been possible to assemble them, all fiction, poetry, drama, and essays published by an American in book form up to and including the year 1875; for the years remaining it contains a very nearly complete collection of the works of every major American writer... "
The Deadly Divas - Group of four mystery authors: Letha Albright, Sherri L. Board, Susan McBride and Denise Swanson. Includes information about their books and upcoming appearances.
The Futurians - "A group of New York SF fans, writers, artists, and editors active from 1938-45. They held to the conviction 'that SF fans should be forward-looking ("futurian") and constructive.'" This site presents a brief overview of the group.
The Locus Index - "This index is created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine . . . ." Complete up to 1997. Also includes a linked index of the same nature for 1998.
The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa - listed by author.
The Orlando Project - An integrated history of women's writing in the British Isles.
The Recommended Fantasy Author List - Very thorough list of recommended authors of fantasy.
The Writers Circle
Timeline of English Literature - An annotated time line of English literature and the historical events shaping it.
WebLit
West Midlands Creative Literature Collection - Information on authors native to, or substantially influenced by, the West Midlands of England.
WritersNet - directory