Biography.com
Search for biographies using either a search entry field or by doing an alphabetical search. Site maintained by AandE new media.

Celebration of Women Writers
This site is dedicated to promoting awareness of women's contribution to literature. It is essentially a link page to websites on various women writers. Search can be done by author, century or country. It is maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

Children's Literature on the WWW
Produced by librarian David K. Brown this site gathers together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.

Internet Shakespeare
Created by Michael Best of the Department of English University of Victoria, This ambitious site provides information on, by and about the bard.

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Online Books
Free books for downloading. Various search access points.

OWL Online Writing Lab
Resources to help you learn more about searching the Internet for writing-related resources.

Poems and Quotations 

Project Gutenberg
Online books searchable by title or author. Produced by Michael Hart.

Writer's Digest 
A supplement to the printed edition of the Writer's Digest, this site contains the most current information on publishing both fiction and non-fiction. Also found is a Hot List, which lists 100 magazines that pay the most for articles; a searchable list of market guidelines; selected texts from Writer's Digest, Fiction Writer, and Story magazines; a list of writing contests sponsored by the publisher; and a schedule of writing conferences.

WritersNet
A resource guide for writers, publishers and agents.