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Online Autobiographers and Diarists
of Literary Merit
Definition of Autobiography?
Online Biographers and History Writers of Literary Merit
James Boswell (1740 - 1795) , Boswell's
Life of Samuel Johnson
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Early Kings
of Norway; The French Revolution: A History;
The Life of John Sterling; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the
Heroic in History; Sartor Resartus .
Winston
Churchill (1874-1965) , Biography.
Vine Deloria,
Jr. (1933- ), Authenticity of Black Elk Speaks.
Leon Edel
(1907-1997) , Biography.
John Hope
Franklin (1915- ) , News and Reviews From the Archives
of The NewYork Times Featuring John Hope Franklin.
Antonia
Fraser (1932? ), Books on Tape.
Edward Gibbon (1734-1794), The
History and Decline of the Roman Empire Volumes I, II, II, IV, V, VI.
Gerda Lerner
(1920- ), The Creation of Patriarchy; The
Creation of Feminist Consciousness.
Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859), Lays
of Ancient Rome.
Samuel
Eliot Morison (1887-1976) , Biography.
Francis Parkman (1823-93), The Oregon
Trail.
Simon Schama,
Press Release.
Arthur
M. Schlesinger (1888-1965) , Great Quotes.
Ronald
Takaki, Email.
George
Trevelyan (1876-1962) , Bibliography.
Barbara
Tuchman (1912-89) , Brief overview and reviews of her
Historical works.
Online Critics of Literary Merit
Paula Gunn Allen (1939- ), Native
American Authors Project; Women Writers of Color;
Paula Gunn Allen's Home Page; Voice of the Turtle Anthology;
"Dear World."
Gloria Anzaldua (1942- ), Review
of Borderlands = La Frontera: The New Mestiza; Review
of Making Face, Making Soul.
Michael Arlen,
Matthew Arnold (1822?1888), Biography;The
Function of Criticism at the Present Time.
Kenneth Clark (1903-83), Biography.
Samuel Taylor Colerdige (1772-1834) , Archives;Exerpts
from the Biographia Literaria, 1817; Lecture on
Prose Style, 1818; Exerpts from The Friend, 1818
edition; Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience;
Donne's poetry - a poetic comment, and exerpted from the Biographia Literaria;
Eloquence, accuracy, and bad writing; Use of first person
pronoun; Good poetry - two criteria;
Johnson's prose style; On literature as a career;
The poet, described in ideal perfection; Short sentences.
Arlene Croce, Comments on "Discussing
the Undiscussable", An Essay by Arlene Croce, The New Yorker, December
26, 1994/January 2, 1995, pp. 54-60; CHAPTER ONE:
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker; Review of Writing
in the Dark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), English
Traits; Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before
the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950- ), West
Africa Review.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), On A Sun-Dial;
On The Want Of Money; On The Pleasure Of Hating;
On The Fear Of Death; On Genius and Common Sense;
On Living To One's Self; On Great and Little Things;
Project For A New Theory Of Civil And Criminal Legislation;
The Indian Jugglers; On Prejudice;
On Disagreeable People; The Fight;
On The Qualifications Necessary To Success In Life; On William
Godwin; On Going a Journey; Characters
of Shakespeare's Plays; Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion.
bell hooks (1952- ), Postmodern
Blackness.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Samuel Johnson
Quotes; Review of Jonas Hanway's Journal of Eight
Days' Journey; Review of Soame Jenyns.
Pauline Kael (1919- ), Pauline
Kael on the fun of writing disrespectfully, The movie critic's speech for
the National Book Critics Circle awards. A Review of
Pauline Kael; Creative Quotations from . . .Pauline Kael;
Criticism as an Art; Women's Voices: Quotations from
Women; She Lost It At The Movies.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) , Reviews
and Articles From the Archives of The New York Times; Sacred
and Profane Iris Murdoch; Celestial Timepiece, A Joyce
Carol Oates Home Page;
Walter Pater (1839-1894), The Renaissance:
Studies in Art and Poetry. Prose and Verse Criticism
of Poetry.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), Bibliography.
George Santayana (1863-1952), Bibliography.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), The
Random George Bernard Shaw Quotes Page; A Treatise on Parents
and Children.
Susan Sontag (1933- ), Biography;
Antonin Artaud.
Cornel West (1953- ), Common Courage
Press.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Essays and
Lectures.
Edmund Wilson,
Online Essayists, Speakers,
Fiction (and Creative Non-Fiction)
Writers of Literary Merit
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), A Story of
an Heir\; Papers from the Spectator 1711-12.
James Agee (1909-55), Bibliography.
Margaret Atwood (1939- ), Reader's
Companion to Alias Grace; The Blind AssassinWeb
Page; Reader's Companion to Bodily Harm;
Reader's Companion to Cat's Eye; Excerpts from The Edible
Woman; Study Guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's
Tale (1986); Deconstruction Issues to Explore in the Classroom
based on Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle; Discussion Questions for Life Before
Men; Read the following Poetry online= "Bored" Published
in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1994; Habitation Text of
the poem; Jo's Page Includes several poems;
Study Guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1986); Reader's
Companion to The Handmaid's Tale; Online Literary Criticism
of The Handmaid's Tale; Variation on the Word Sleep Text
of the poem; Variation on the Word Sleep Text of the
Margaret Atwood poem and an analysis; A Visit Published
in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1995. Margaret Atwood's Address
to the American Booksellers Association Convention Miami, Florida, June
1, 1993 Plus Selkected Poems by Margaret Atwood; Reader's Companion to
Surfacing.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Essays
of Francis Bacon; The New Atlantis.
James Baldwin (1924-1987), Time line
of Author; The Boston Book Review Praises James Baldwin.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Utopia
of Usurers, and Other Essays; The Man Who Was Thursday;
A Collection of Stories.
Joan Didion , The Salon Interview;
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Selected
Works and Commentary; Self-Reliance;The
American Scholar; The Conduct of Life;
Essays: First Series (1841); Essays: Second Series;
The Method of Nature; Representative Man;
The Young American; Divinity School Address;
Man The Reformer; Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849).
Paul Fussell , The Initial Shock . .
.A Conversation with Paul Fussell.
Mavis Gallant (1922- ), Biography.
Nadine Gordimer (1923- ), Biography;"WRITING
AND BEING" Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991.
Edward Hoagland (1932- ), Quotations
online;
Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960), Biography
and Criticism; Teacher Resource File on Zora Neal Hurston.
Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ), Biography,
List of Themes, Works Cited, and Related Sites.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), Elia:
Essays Which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine.
Norman Mailer (1923- ), His Life
and His Works.
Nancy Mairs, Body, Mind, and Soul:
An Interview with Nancy Mairs; Biography and Review of Her
Various Works.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), Biography;Between
Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975.
N. Scott Momaday (1934- ), The
Buffalo Trust.
Montaigne (1533-1592), Biography.
V. S. Naipaul
(1932- ), Online Literary Criticism; Review
of In a Free State.
Joyce Carol Oates , Biography.
Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love, an Excerpt.
Tillie
Olsen (1912- ), Biography and Links.
George
Orwell (1903-1950) , Politics and the English Language
(1946). Political Writings of George Orwell.
Cynthia Ozick (1928- ), Biography
and Links to Reviews.
Ishmael Reed (1938- ),
Adrienne Rich (1929- ), "I dreamed
I called you on the telephone . . . ." "I know you are
reading this poem . . . ." "In a Classroom"
"In those years, people will say, we lost track . . ." "Living
in Sin" "Orion""Prospective Immigrants Please Note"
"The pact that we made was the ordinary pact . . . ."
Mordecai Richler (1931- ), "School
Days, Not So Golden Rule Days."
Sharman Apt Russell, Writing by Sharman
Apt Russell.
Scott Russell Sanders (1945- ), Top
Ten Reasons: Why we'll always need a good story.
Richard Selzer (1928- ), Biography.
Richard Steele (1672-1729), Biography.
Shelby Steele (1946- ), His Home
Page; "A Conversation with Shelby Steele about
A Dream Deferred."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Cape
Cod; Civil Disobedience;
Life Without Principle; The Maine Woods;
Slavery in Massachusetts; Walden;Walking;A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers.
Alice Walker (1944- ), Biography;Live
Chat With Alice Walker; Alice Walker Quotations;
An Excerpt from Possessing the Secret Joy; An Excerpt
from The Color Purple; An Excerpt from The Temple of
My Familiar; An excerpt from In Search of Our Mothers'
Gardens; A South Without Myths.
Eudora Welty (1909- ), Creative
Quotations;
E. B. White (1899-1985), Biography;
Terry Tempest Williams (1955- ), The
Politics of Place: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams.
Virginia Woolf (1882?1941), Describing
a Moment; Blue & Green; A
Haunted House; Kew Gardens; The Mark
on the Wall; A Society; The String
Quartet; An Unwritten Novel.
Online Journalists of Literary Merit
Roger Angell, Roger Angell, in ``The
Summer Game".
Maureen Dowd, New
York Times syndicated columnist.
Elizabeth Drew (1935- ) Washington
correspondent of the Atlantic (1967-73) and The New Yorker (1973-92).
Nora Ephron (1941- ), Columnist
for Esquire and New York magazines during the early 1970s. Her columns
and articles were collected in Wallflower at the Orgy (1970), Crazy Salad
(1975), and Scribble, Scribble (1978).
M. F. K. Fisher, Review of M.F.K. FISHER:
A LIFE IN LETTERS, Correspondence 1929-1991.
Frances Fitzgerald, Review of Way Out
There in the Blue.
Janet Flanner (Genet) 1892-1978,
Ellen Goodman, Read Ellen Goodman's
Columns at the Boston Globe.
David Halberstam , Book Notes Transcript
of The Fifties; Featured Author: David Halberstam, From
the Archives of The New York Times.
Andy Logan, Quote by Andy Logan;
Representative Mom: Balancing Budgets, Bill, and Baby in the U.S. Congress
By SUSAN MOLINARI with ELINOR BURKETT Reviewed by ANDY LOGAN;
Pataki: An Autobiography By GEORGE E. PATAKI with DANIEL PAISNER.
Reviewed by ANDY LOGAN.
John McPhee, CHAPTER ONE Annals
of the Former World; Featured Author: John McPhee, With
News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times .
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Quotes, Links,
and Articles.
Jan Morris, 2 sides OF THE RHINE;
BOOK REVIEW/Brendan Glacken of the Book Jan Morris, by Paul Clements .
David Remnick, Metamorphosis: A New
Kafka , David Remnick: Introductory remarks, E.L. Doctorow: Kafka Lite,
Cynthia Ozick: Kafka and the Mystery of Meaning, Susan Sontag: Reading:
from Kafka's Diaries, 1910 translated by Joseph Kresh.
Red Smith, An excerpt from RED SMITH
ON BASEBALL The Game's Greatest Writer On The Games's Greatest Years.
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), The Shame
of the Cities (1904); Pittsburg: A City Ashamed:
The Story of a Citizens' Party That Broke Through One Ring into Another.
Paul Theroux (1941- ), "All
Change is Fascinating" Paul Theroux talks about his novel, Kowloon
Tong, and the implications of the Hong Kong handover; The World
According to Paul Theroux; Salon Interview;
Paul Theroux: A truthful traveler with a sense of discovery.
Calvin Trillin (1935- ),
Salon Interview: Writer and Humorist Gets Serious About Fathers and
Sons; Michael Interviews...Author Calvin Trillin;
Biography and List of Works; Criticism of 'Messages From
My Father' another Trillin hit ; WITH A BEAR IN MIND;
ALL THE LOVELY PIGEONS; Calvin Trillin: Seeing Spills,
Ignoring Ills (11/3/97); Losing The Stomach For Politics (9/2/97);
Camp For Show, Putt For Dough (7/28/97); Calvin Trillin
On Sex In The Military (6/16/97); It Happened One Night?
(4/28/97).
Tom Wolfe, Various Criticism
of Tom Wolfe's Latest works; Tom Wolfe's New Journalism;
Tom Wolfe Home Page.
Online Political Writers of Literary Merit
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Hannah
Arendt Links.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), Existentialism
and Simone de Beauvoir.
William F. Buckley, Read his Columns
at the National Review.
Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813), Letters From
An American Farmer.
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), The Souls
of Black Folk; Featured Author: W. E. B. Du Bois, With
News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times.
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Biography
and many links from about.com; Maragret Fuller Home Page.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ),
Conversations with Galbraith; U.S.'s Third World Policy
during the Cold War; Political Leadership;
Intellectuals in Government; Political Parties and the
National Agenda; Galbraith's Intellectual Legacy:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), Her
Land; Suffrage Songs and Verses.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathan;
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of
Independence; Notes on the State of Virginia;
A Summary View of the Rights of British America; Quotations
On Politics and Goverment.
George Kennan (1904- ), Biography;
Resources for zfurther Research;
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68), I
Have a Dream; I See The Promised Land;
King's Washington Speech Includes soundclips from King's speech;
Letter from the Birmingham Jail Complete text of one of King's most famous
civil rights pieces; The Negro and the Constitution King reflects
upon slavery and its long-standing impact on America's African-American
citizens; Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Acceptance speech
King gave December 10; The Purpose of Education One of
King's early pieces, this essay examines the aims of education.
Lewis H. Lapham. Lewis Lapham
in dialogue.
John Locke (1632-1704), A Letter
Concerning Toleration; Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Prince.
John Stuart Mill (1806-73), On Liberty.
John Milton (1608-74), Areopagitica;Colasterion;Comus,
A Mask; The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Of Education;
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes.
Sir Saint Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Agrarian Justice;
The American Crisis; Dissertation on First Principles
of Government; Common Sense.
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), Dream Life
and Real Life: A Little African Story; Stories, Dreams
and Allegories; The Story of an African Farm; Woman and Labour.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745),
Many Links for GULLIVER'S TRAVELS;
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
Gore Vidal,
George Will,
Garry Wills, Catholic Nonsense.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of
the Rights of Woman.
Online Science and Nature Writers of Literary Merit
Edward Abbey,
Wendell Berry,
Jacon Bronowski, Jacob Bronowski: "Knowledge
or Certainty" Study Guide.
Rachel Carson,
Charles Darwin,
Annie Dillard,
Gretel Ehrlich,
Loren Eiseley,
Stephen Jay Gould,
Evelyn Fox Keller,
Barry Lopez,
Peter Matthiessen,
Margaret Mead,
John Muir,
David Quammen,
Carl Sagen,
Lewis Thomas,
Jonathan Weiner,
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