Resource Web Sites for
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The Austin International Poetry Festival
The Austin International Poetry Festival site contains several links and information about the annual festival in Austin.
The Center for the Study of the Southwest
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos
Dr. Mark Busby, Director - 512/245-2232
Southwestern Writers Collection
Southwest Texas State Univrsity, San Marcos
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
David J. Weber, Director - 214/768-3684
Southwest Collection @ UNM Los Alamos
This site lists several Southwest authors. It is not searchable, but information is listed alphabetically by author or title.
The On-Line Books Page
Directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. They currently are working on a Prize-Winning Books On-Line page! It includes lists of major literary awards, nature of the awards, recipients, and complete texts of many of these.
The Bookwire Index: Book Awards
Provides descriptions of major book awards.
On-Line Literary Resources
Collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature.
Bookwire
Includes original fiction, reviews, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites, etc.
Library of Congress Home Page
A Celebration of Women Writers
This site provides a more in-depth biographical information about women writers and their books. The site is arranged A to Z by the authors last name and in some cases gives a full text version of some of the books or poems they have written. Most sites on the individual pages have pictures on the authors as well as the biography.
Authors Pen
On this homepage, there is an alphabetical list of authors. By clicking on the author, you can find out if they have a homepage, biographical information, email address, additional information and a picture if available. The homepages for each author are specific and can provide a lot of useful information. The biography Authors Pen provides also gives the vital information such as when, where born, education and writing career.
Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web
Just about all the resources you could ever want on this author.
Children's Book Awards
Includes books for children and young adults
Children's Literature Web Guide
PLUS
Try searching these on-line bookstores for information. For example, if you are looking for the southwest authors prose category, type "southwest" in the site's search engine.
Amazon.com
BarnesandNoble.com
Borders
The New York Public Library Online
The New York Public Library also has an online bookstore on its site.
Books.com
Abracadabra Books
Abracadabra Books will do free booksearches for out-of-print titles.
alt.bookstore
A1books
The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog
This is a searchable site of University Press Catalogs (for example, the University of Texas Press).
Kingbooks.com
Ordering
If you find a book online and want to buy it, get the Title, Author and ISBN of the book and go to your local bookstore. To order it online, check out this site:
Acses.com
Acses.com automatically searches several online booksellers for the best prices and availability.
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