Poet and Author Research
7th and 8th Grade
BOOKS
/ ELECTRONIC RESOURCES /
WEB SITES / SEARCH ENGINES
Objective:
To select a poet or author to research.
BOOKS ON
CART
Poetry for Young People
American Authors
Current Biography Yearbook
Webster's Biographical Dictionary
Junior Authors and Illustrators
Electronic Resources
WORLD
BOOK
Biography
Reference Bank
http://www.powerlibrary.org/Interface/POWER.asp?ID=PL2616
Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text
articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals,
feature
articles, interviews, essays,
performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Contempory
Authors
http://web7.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc6_CA?sw_aep=pl2615
This site provides nearly 120,000
biographies and biographical information on authors.
LitFinder
http://www.litfinder.com/home.asp
Search for
full text poems, citations and excerpts using Poem Finder. Poet
biographies, and the Year’s Best Poetry are included.
Story Finder provides thousands of full text
short stories with explanations, biographies, and more. Use Essay
Finder to locate full text essays
and discursive writing based on books
published in the 20th century. The essays focus on humanities and
social sciences and include biographies
and literary criticisms.
Thompson
Gale Poets Corner
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/bio/index.htm
WEB SITES
POETS
Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
This
is the web site for The Academy of American Poets Society. It
contains more than 450 poets, their biographies and their poetry.
Authors
Page Wise
http://www.essortment.com/in/Literature.Authors/
This web site links to
other sites which contian autobiographies of authors.
Please evaluate this site to determine its validity against
similar sites.
SEARCH
ENGINES (develop keywords before doing your search)
VIVISIMO
GOOGLE
ASK JEEVES
YAHOO