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English Literature Author Pages

Author Pages offer a quick reference guide to help teachers find information about specific authors and their works.

For each author, we include a brief introduction, suggested further reading, a biographical outline, major works, E-Texts, Web sites, multimedia resources, electronic discussion groups, and professional societies. More author pages will be added in the coming months. Click on the author's name below to view each author page.

  Margaret Atwood
  Jane Austen
  Charlotte Brontë
  Emily Brontë
  Joseph Conrad
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  T. S. Eliot
  Ralph Ellison
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  E. M. Forster
  Lorraine Hansberry
  Thomas Hardy
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Ernest Hemingway
  Zora Neale Hurston
  James Joyce
  Cormac McCarthy
  George Orwell
  William Shakespeare
  John Steinbeck
  Alice Walker
  Virginia Woolf

This list should not be interpreted as a recommended reading list, but simply as a preliminary selection of authors that teachers currently include in their AP English courses. Any author of literary merit would be appropriate for this list.


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