literature
- Cliff Notes
- find literature by topic or title
- Literary Criticism at the Internet Public Library
- The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- Sparknotes
- literature & poetry study guide
- Project Gutenberg
- FREE electronic books. Read the full text of books like Julius Caesar or The Scarlet Letter on the Internet
- Reading Rants
- out of the ordinary teen booklists
- Teen Reads
- Interviews given by young adult authors
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- American Authors
- Bloomington Public Library has many resources available about American Authors.
To find information about an author or their texts, use the library's catalog and type in the author’s last name, first name (for example; Angelou, Maya) and click on search.
Browse our reference section (800s) for some of the following titles. For assistance, please ask a librarian at the Reference Desk.
- African American Writers
- American Writers
- Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Magill’s Literary Annual
- Masterplots
- Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
- Something About The Author (located in the Children’s department)
- Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
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