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Saki
Scott Russell Sanders
Brian Siano
Brent Staples
Oliver Stone
Jonathan Swift
Amy Tan
Deborah Tannen
James Thurber
Calvin Trillin
Garry Trudeau
Mark Twain
John Updike
Alice Walker
E. B. White
Marie Winn
William Zinsser
Saki
http://www.crl.com
Part of a personal site, with links to biographical information, electronic texts of H. H. Munro's work, and a bibliography of works by and about him.
Scott Russell Sanders
http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/sanders.html
Sanders’s rather scanty homepage at Indiana University, including a bibliography and a list of awards won.
Brian Siano
http://www.skeptic.com/02.4.about-siano.html
This site by The Skeptics Society Newsgroup offers a brief bio of Siano.
Brent Staples
http://www.slate.com/Assessment/98-10-24/Assessment.asp
In his essay on African-American support for President Clinton, Staples analyzes politics in the black community.
http://www.cjr.org/year/98/2/values.asp
A forum titled The Erosion of Values, a debate among journalists Howard Kurtz, Carol Marin, Tom Rosenstiel, Danny Schechter, Brent Staples, and Mike Wallace in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Oliver Stone
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2682
"Oliver Stone: Hollywood’s Most Exciting and Controversial Film Director" by Jason O’Brien is the most comprehensive Stone site and features a discussion forum and essays, in addition to a standard biography and filmography.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~mbweinbe/contents.html (look up)
"A Postmodern Analysis of Violence and Television" by Michael Weinberger, a University of Pennsylvania student, ties directly into the Grisham/Stone battle and gives a clear analysis of Stone’s film.
Jonathan Swift
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/index.html
This site offers links to Swift’s writing, links to other sources, and information about Swift’s life and times. It also includes quotations, images, notes on his texts, and "coinage."
http://its-online.com/archive/swift.html
This site provides a biography of Swift and includes questions about his life to test students’ knowledge.
Amy Tan
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan
This site, created by a reader, provides links to interviews, images, a short biography, book synopses and reviews, and a list of Tan's articles for the Sun Herald Online.
http://www.salon1999.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html
A Salon magazine interview with Tan.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0bio-1
This site has a short biography of Tan and a link to an interview in which she discusses how her childhood and family relationships have influenced her writing.
Deborah Tannen
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/march98/tannen_3-27.html
A transcript of an interview between David Gergen of U.S. News & World Report and Tannen that was originally aired on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Tannen discusses her book The Argument Culture and the rhetoric of argument in American culture.
www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/csom/cwf/granteepages/tannen.html
This brief biography of Tannen is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's E-Network for Work-Family Researchers. It includes a link to a summary of Tannen's Foundation-sponsored research on mothers' and fathers' language at work.
James Thurber
http://www.seanet.com/~thurber/thurber.html
Links to several of Thurber’s stories and cartoons.
http://www.budgetweb.com/heather/thurber/thurber.html
A collection of links to biographies, bibliographies, and interviews, as well as reviews of Thurber's work.
Calvin Trillin
http://ww.salonmagazine.com/weekly/interview960624.html
A Salon magazine interview with Trillin in which he discusses his childhood and his book Messages from My Father.
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/analysis/pundits.prose/trillin.html
Links to five of Trillin’s weekly columns for Time magazine, all published in 1997.
http://www.thenation.com/about/magazine/bios/trillin.shtml
A brief biography of Trillin and a bibliography of his major books and articles.
Doonesbury@30
http://www.doonesbury.com
The Doonesbury site contains links to Garry Trudeau's comic strip and features an Electronic Town Hall.
Mark Twain
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twain.html
This "official Mark Twain Web site" includes a biography, a list of Twain’s writings, quotations, photographs, and links to other sites.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Part of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this interpretive archive contains e-texts of Twain's work, historical information about his texts (including original illustrations), and contemporary reviews. Visitors can also play Twain’s "Memory Builder Game" and learn about his life.
John Updike
http://www.users.fast.net/~joyerkes
A homepage for Updike information and discussion that includes book reviews, photos, a bibliography, and more and is maintained by James Yerkes, professor of religion and philosophy at Moravian College.
http://www.salon1999.com/08/features/updike.html
A Salon interview with Updike on the decline of popular literature and Updike’s novel The Beauty of the Lilies.
Alice Walker
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AliceWalker.html
The University of Minnesota's Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color includes a biography; a bibliography; links to interviews, other sites, and annotated online texts; and an onsite discussion group.
http://www.sojourners.com/soj9412/941213.html
An excerpt from Alice Walker’s study on Flannery O’Connor titled "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor."
E. B. White
http://www.tiac.net/users/winlib/ebwhite.htm
A tribute to White’s work and life; offers biographical and bibliographical information, as well as quotations by and about White and lists of critical work about his books.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebwhite.htm
Includes biographical information, a bibliography of White’s work, and a list of secondary sources.
Marie Winn
http://dieoff.org/page21.htm
Titled Electronic Heroin, this site juxtaposes excerpts from Winn's essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" with a review of Terence McNally's Food of the Gods.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/wlast/pass/1998/03/26pass.html
A long excerpt from Winn’s 1998 book about bird life in Central Park, Red Tails in Love.
William Zinsser
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/trade/nonfiction/catalog/AboutAuthor0-395-73101-1.html
A brief biography of the author.
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