Directories

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
Megasite listing authors by period, incorporating biographical information and bibliographies for most major American Writers from the colonial period until the present. Created by Paul Reuben, Professor of English at California State College.

American Authors
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
Very extensive list of links to hundreds of Americanist sites. Created by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Excellent site providing web sites, articles, speeches, images and other information on writers during the 1950's.

Literary Resources
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
Comprehensive site from Rutgers University.

Online Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Literary criticism articles organized by author. This site is part of the Internet Public Library. Extremely useful.