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Author's Calendar: Roald Dahl

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography on author Roald Dahl (1916-1990 CE) provides information about his literary career and personal life. It comments on his often-used taste for cruelty, rudeness to adults, and comic grotesque themes used in his books by...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Biography of Anthony Trollope

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website features a biographical sketch of the Victorian era author Anthony Trollope. Links are provided to full-text selections from Trollope's works.
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Author's Calendar: Pegasos: Eugene O'neill (1888 1953)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Eugene O'Neill, an expressionist writer. It includes quotes as well as further bibliographical references.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Henry Fielding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good biography of Henry Fielding (1707-1754 CE), the English Romantic novelist.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Simone De Beauvoir

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography and brief history on the life of Simone de Beauvoir. Contains quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Ludovico Ariosto

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography on this Italian poet is thorough and contains a selected bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Bertolt Brecht

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough biography on German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Discusses his upbringing, his career as a playwright, and his overall controversial life.
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Author's Calendar: T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a biography of British archeological scholar, adventurer, and military strategist, T.E.Lawrence. It gives details on his early life and life in Arabia. It includes quotations, and links to further information.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Anatole France

For Students 9th - 10th
A fairly thorough biography in English with an attached bibliography.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
Langston Hughes is known mainly for his rhythmic poems set to music. This site gives an in-depth look at his background, including biographical information, what he wrote about, who influenced him, and his level of success.
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Author's Calendar: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a biography of Coleridge, with links to other historical figures and a list of his collected works.
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African American Literature Book Club

African American Literature Book Club: Alex Haley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a concise biography of Haley, the video [12:28] "Alex Haley Interview Roots (Merv Griffin Show 1977)" and links to six of his books.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text for Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky." Also available here is a good biography of the author. Click on 'Lewis Carroll' to find the biography.
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Erskine Caldwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a great place to start any Caldwell research. A brief biography by the author's stepson, information about all of Caldwell's writing, a complete bibliography, and a well-developed list of print works about the author are all...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Luis J. Rodriguez

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of the author is offered here. Includes links to other useful Rodriguez sites, as well as a portrait.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Lewis Carroll

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very nice biography of the author of the "Alice" stories, Lewis Carroll. Also contains a selected bibliography of many of his works.
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Other

Shel Silverstein

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Various resources for activities, games, poems, and more by children's author and poet Shel Silverstein. Students will find games, puzzles, printables, downloads, and e-cards with some of their favorite poems and stories. Teachers will...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1861), including a biography of the author.
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The Book Report

Teenreads.com: To Kill a Mockingbird, Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a brief review of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," as well as a biography of the author and along excerpt from the novel.
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TES Global

Tes: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Power Point

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point lesson will introduce students to biographical information about the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl. At the end of the lesson, students will engage in...
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Other

Unique Novelist: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full-text ebook of A Passage to India by E. M. Forster available to read online or download. Includes a brief biography of the author.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Nobel E-Museum offers this biography of African author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Other

Embracing the Child: The Caldecott Medal

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This page provides a listing of all Caldecott-winning books, with links to reviews of each winning title and biographical information about the authors and illustrators.
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Other

Reading Group Guide: Pilgrim

For Students 9th - 10th
A great source for questions for discussion or written response on Timothy Findley's novel, "Pilgrim." Includes links to a brief biography on the author and to a long excerpt from chapter 1.

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