A Celebration of Women Writers
Comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women. Searchable by time period, country, and author's last name.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Bartleby.com
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
http://www.bartleby.com/
Booknotes.org
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"A companion web site to C-SPAN's Sunday author interview series . . . ." Includes an extensive online archive (dating from 1989 up to the present) of author interviews in text-transcript form, with many excerpts also available in audio and/or video (RealPlayer format).
http://www.booknotes.org/
Institute of Museum and Library Services
An independent US federal agency supporting museums and libraries of all types.
http://www.imls.gov/
Perseus Project
Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Project Muse
Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers.
http://muse.jhu.edu/
The New Yorker
The on-line edition of the magazine offers the current issue's table of contents, an excerpt from a selected article, and an image of the issue's cover.
http://www.newyorker.com/
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Official Nobel Foundation site, for literature. Awarded for an outstanding body of work 'in an ideal direction'. Presents Laureates and Symposia, articles and educational links, the Swedish Academy and selection process. Links to other Nobel Prizes.
http://nobelprize.org/literature/
The Pulitzer Prizes
Annual awards by Columbia University. Prizes in Letters are for books published in the US - fiction, biography, general non-fiction, history and poetry. Searchable database, history of the prize, guidelines and entry forms, and related links.
http://www.pulitzer.org/
