• Nobel Authors
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Pearl S. Buck "... a novelist must not think of pure literature as his goal. . . . He is a storyteller in a village tent, and by his stories he entices people into his tent. He need not raise his voice when a scholar passes. But he must beat all his drums when a band of poor pilgrims pass on their way up the mountain in search of gods." From Nobel Acceptance Speech, 1938.

A fine site called Women in American History by Encyclopedia Britannica. It's got a biography, media site, recommended reading, etc. All geared toward women in history.

Go to this class's page on Buck and The Good Earth

Portrait by © Hardy Cole, 1995

Hermann Hesse "What a wonderful thing is the existence of many races, many peoples, many languages, and many varieties of attitude and outlook!" From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1946

The Hesse Page Journal: Much of it is in German, but English language stuff is there.

Go To This Class's Page on Hesse and Siddhartha

William Faulkner   "Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can['t] even bear it. . . . Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat." Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1949

The William Faulkner Society: Events, links, discussion list

William Faulkner on the Web: audio-taped reading by the man, hometown information, links, just about everything you'd ever want to know.

Good essay called "Faulkner's Distorted Crucifix: Wood Imagery in Light in August." This is published in Teaching Faulkner.

This link takes you to instructions on how to join the Faulkner Forum-- an email discussion list

Go to this class's page on Faulkner and Light in August

Ernest Hemingway "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954

The Hemingway Resource Center has biography, bibliography, bookstore, audio, photos.

Go To This Class's Page on Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises

John Steinbeck "I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962.

Steinbeck: The California Novels: is a wonderful site with maps of Cannery Row, lots of other links, etc.

The National Steinbeck Center is professional and interesting. Probably won't help you write an essay, but will round out your knowledge of the man and the writer.

Go To This Class's Page on Steinbeck and Cannery Row

Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Art inflames even a frozen, darkened soul to a high spiritual experience. Through art we are sometimes visited--dimly, briefly--by revelations such as cannot be produced by rational thinking." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1970.

A great page by Katharena Eiermann with critical thought, respect and a comprehensive view of the man. Pretty much all you need.

Go To This Class's Page on Solzhenitsyn and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Saul Bellow "I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. It was my habit to register for a course and then to do most of my reading in another field of study." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1976.

Biography: won't help with essay work, but useful for something. An introductory idea in an essay perhaps...

Go To This Class's Page on Bellow and Herzog

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1982.

Macondo: a sweet site with plenty of links to go around. Novel synopses, critical summaries and book titles (in print) for purchase, biography, bibliography, etc.

Lecture (in text) on One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Actually pretty good.

Go To This Class's Page on Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sir William Golding "There are those who expect a political system to produce [love]; and others who expect the love to produce the system. My own faith is that the truth of the future lies between the two and we shall behave humanly and a bit humanely, stumbling along, haphazardly generous and gallant, foolishly and meanly wise until the rape of our planet is seen to be the preposterous folly that it is." Nobel Acceptance Speech, 1983

A decent link to a class's work on the novel

Go To This Class's Page on Golding and Lord of the Flies

Toni Morrison "Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." From Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993.

An interesting way to search quotes and about five themes of Song of Solomon

Discussion group for Toni Morrison. Try it for specific questions?

Some wonderful criticism of Song of Solomon to help your understanding of the novel.

Go To This Class's Page on Morrison and Song of Solomon

*Go to Honors English Online's page of resources for online writing textbooks, student essays, remediation sites and other online sources.

MLA: Modern Language Association is a good place to start to learn how to write in the accepted methods for Humanities.

Go here for some instructions on how to write an essay on literature, with sample essays.

*Here's a nice site on writing papers of literary analysis, put out by Western Michigan University.

University of Wisconsin-Madison has an effective site on academic essays.

Reams of literature related sites and links here. Great site, but takes a while to load.

Contemporary American Literature on the web. It may not help you with this class, but it's comprehensive.

Web site design: free graphics from my kind of people: Soleil Designs

For a study break, take a look at the QuickTime library, but only if you're a Xena fan.

If you're a Hercules fan, here are some 3-D graphics. You better have your red and blue glasses!