Here are some wonderful links to find more info on any of the authors we will study in class this year.

• Louisa May Alcott -- American writer & author of the famous novel Little Women

• Sue Alexander - a great site directly from the children's author

• Issac Asimov  --  popular & prolific Russian science fiction writer.

• Dave Barry - world famous humorist & local writer & journalist. 

  • Peter & the Starcatchers Home Page

  • Miami Herald's Dave Barry Page

• Pearl S. Buck  --  1st American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; her life & writings are mostly set in China.

• Sandra Cisneros  --  more resources on the Chicana author of "The House on Mango Street" and other novels, poems & essays.

• Alex Flinn  --  local So. FL author of 8th grade novel, Nothing to Lose

• William Golding  --  British author of Lord of the Flies

• O. Henry - a site with complete texts to his works, including "The Ransom of Red Chief"

• Carl Hiaasen -- So.FL writer of enviro-themes for Miami Herald, & author of Hoot

• Langston Hughes  --  the Harlem Renaissance's great jazz poet.

• Shirley Jackson  --  American short story writer of horror & humor. Check out her story "The Lottery"

• Harper Lee -- author of the American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Madeleine L'Engle -- author of science fiction novel, A Wrinkle in Time

• Lois Lowry -- YA author of many novels including The Giver

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez  --  enter the Columbian writer/poet's magical world of Macondo.  **Cruz's favorite writer**

• Lensey Namioka  -- A Chinese-American writer of childrens' stories & books (& for some adults too).

• Gary Paulsen - YA writer of wilderness & adventure plots.

• Edgar Allen Poe  --  the American master of the short story and the grotesque.

• J.K. Rowling  --  very cool site for the author of the Harry Potter series.

  • Check out our own Harry Potter Page

• William Shakespeare  --  a scholarly page on the English Bard.

• Armstrong Sperry - explore the South Seas & other marine stories.

• J.R.R.Tolkien  --  the creator of the fantastic realm of Middle-Earth & The Lord of the Rings.

• Mark Twain  --  possibly America's greatest writer, humorist & storyteller.  Author of our 8th grade novel - Pudd'nhead Wilson.

• Walt Whitman  --  possibly America's all-time greatest (& my favorite) poet