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Filed under: Authors

Authors and I (New York and London: J. Lane, 1921), by C. Lewis Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Essay On the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character (London: T. Cadell, Jr. and W. Davies, 1795), by Isaac Disraeli
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
More Authors and I (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), by C. Lewis Hind
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
Contemporary Portraits (first series; New York: M. Kennerley, 1915), by Frank Harris
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Contemporary Portraits (first series; Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1915), by Frank Harris
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Contemporary Portraits, Second Series (New York: The author, c1919), by Frank Harris
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Savants et Écrivains (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, ca. 1910), by Henri Poincaré (page images at HathiTrust)
Latest Contemporary Portraits (New York: Macaulay, c1927), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1927), by Annie Russell Marble (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Authors -- Anecdotes

Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

Filed under: Authors -- Biography

Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
A Backward Glance (1934), by Edith Wharton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Authors -- Drama

Exiles, by James Joyce (HTML at readprint.com)

Filed under: Authors -- Drug use

The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge (New York: Octagon Books, 1971), by M. H. Abrams (PDF at Cornell)

Filed under: Authors -- Fiction

All I Could Never Be (New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, c1932), by Anzia Yezierska (page images at HathiTrust)
Miranda Masters (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by John Cournos (page images at HathiTrust)
The Author of Beltraffio, by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)
The Author of Beltraffio; The Middle Years; Greville Fane; and Other Tales (Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Henry James (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
The Clue of the Twisted Candle, by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and audio)
The Girl in the Mirror (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, illust. by Paul J. Meylan (Gutenberg text and illysrated HTML)
Hudson River Bracketed, by Edith Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
The Journal of Arthur Stirling ("The Valley of the Shadow"); Revised and Condensed, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
The Magic Skin (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Magic Skin, by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)
Ranthorpe (London: Chapman and Hall, 1847), by George Henry Lewes (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rubicon (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
A Beginner (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Rhoda Broughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
The City of Beautiful Nonsense (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by E. Temple Thurston (Gutenberg text)
Hadrian the Seventh (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), by Frederick Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879), by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
May Iverson's Career (New York and London: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Elizabeth Garver Jordan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Green Carnation, by Robert Hichens
- PDF at In Parentheses
- Gutenberg text
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
Cakes and Ale (c1930), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1914), by Patrick MacGill (multiple formats at archive.org)
Martin Eden, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
Martin Eden: Romaani (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Ville Hynynen (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Authors -- Interviews

A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Terry Tempest Williams, ed. by Michael Austin, illust. by Lee Carlman Riddell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Filed under: Authors -- Self-portraits

Nights: Rome, Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris in the Fighting Nineties (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Filed under: Anonyms and pseudonyms

A Concise Handbook of Ancient and Modern Literature, Issued Either Anonymously, Under Pseudonyms, or Initials (London: The author, 1896), by Frederick Marchmont (multiple formats at archive.org)
Pseudonyms of Authors, Including Anonyms and Initialisms (originally published 1882), by John Edward Haynes
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org
An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Authors, American

Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF files at america.gov)
Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (1899), by Sherwin Cody (Gutenberg text)
Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1899), by Sherwin Cody
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Short Studies of American Authors (enlarged edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1888), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Famous Authors (Men) (fourth impression; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Famous Authors (Women) (fourth impression; Johnston not credited in this edition; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins, contrib. by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books: Second Series (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1903), by E. F. Harkins
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins and Charles H. L. Johnston
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Prose Writers of America; With a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)

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