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• 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
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• 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)
• Famous Authors (Men) (fourth impression; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins
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• 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
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• Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books: Second Series (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1903), by E. F. Harkins
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• 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
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• 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)
• American authors and their homes : personal descriptions and interviews (J. Pott & Co., 1901), by Francis W. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• American lands and letters ... (C. Scribner's sons, 1898), by Donald Grant Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets' homes. Pen and pencil sketches of American poets and their homes. (D. Lothrop and company, 1877), by Richard Henry Stoddard and Mass.) Fernside (Princeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of the present day, 1890 to 1920 (G. Wahr, 1920), by Thomas Ernest Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authorship of the present-day (since 1890) (G. Wahr, 1918), by Thomas Ernest Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topical notes on American authors (Silver, Burdett, 1896), by Lucy Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes of American authors; comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers ... (G. P. Putnam and co.; [etc., etc.], 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of authors, British and American ... (Sturgis & Walton company, 1910), by Edwin Watts Chubb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly, and other papers (Houghton Mifflin company, 1923), by Bliss Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends. (Houghton Mifflin, 1896), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore. Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1895), by Frank Preston Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets and novelists; a series of literary studies (Smith, Elder, & co., 1875), by George Barnett Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-odd years in the literary shop (E. P. Dutton Co., 1921), by James L. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• American men of letters, their nature and nurture (Columbia University, 1916), by Edwin Leavitt Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, his life, genius, and writings : a biographical sketch, to which are added personal recollections of his visits to England, extracts from unpublished letters, and miscellaneous characteristic records (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1882., 1882), by Alexander Ireland and Marshall and Co Simpkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson; a paper read before the New York genealogical and biographical society, December 14, 1833, with afterthoughts (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by William Hague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance, a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper & Brothers, 1901), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper, 1911), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary rambles at home and abroad (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chapters from a life (Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897,1896., 1896), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of American authors. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1896), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• American humourists, recent and living (A. Gardner, 1897), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America. With a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country. (H. T. Coates & Co., 1870), by Rufus W. Griswold and John H. Dillingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The living authors of America. First series (Stringer and Townsend, 1950), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Innocence abroad (A. A. Knopf, 1931), by Emily Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry David Thoreau : including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by F. B. Sanborn, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers, a series of papers contributed to Blackwood's magazine (1824-1825) (Duke University Press, 1937), by John Neal and Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American letters (American book company, 1936), by Walter Fuller Taylor and Harry Hartwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years among authors, books and publishers. (Carleton, 1884), by J. C. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of Barabbas, 1884-1934 (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935), by George H. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house of Harper : a century of publishing in Franklin Square (Harper & Brothers Pub., 1912), by J. Henry Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American authors (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The one hundred best books by American women during the past hundred years, 1833-1933, as chosen for the National council of women (Associated authors service, 1933), by National Council of Women of the United States and Anita Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of Thoreau's journals (Houghton Mifflin Co. ;, 1927), by Henry David Thoreau, Bruce Rogers, Odell Shepard, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses (Roberts Brothers, 1873), by William Ellery Channing, Press of John Wilson and Son, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excavations, a book of advocacies (Knopf, 1926), by Carl Van Vechten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870 (Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Edward Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Later years of the Saturday club, 1870-1920 (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal sketches of recent authors (A. C. McClurg and company, 1898), by Hattie Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chat about celebrities; or, The story of a book (Lee and Shepard, 1897), by Curtis Guild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative names in the history of English literature. (Ginn brothers, 1875), by Horace H. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The foreground of American fiction (Cincinnati [etc.] American book company, 1934), by Harry Hartwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance; a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper & brothers, 1902), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Authors of the day : studies in contemporary literature. (G.H. Doran, 1924), by Grant M. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some contemporary Americans : the personal equation in literature. (University of Chicago, 1924), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary spotlight (G.H. Doran, 1924), by John Chipman Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great spiritual writers of America (Paul Elder and Company, 1916), by George Hamlin Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors at home; personal and biographical sketches of well-known American writers (A. Wessels company, 1902), by Jeannette L. Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen : sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century (Dodd, Mead, 1898), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen authors to one (Lewis Copeland, 1928), by David Karsner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of American literature (American Book Company, 1896), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howells, James, Bryant, and other essays (Macmillan, 1924), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South in history and literature; a hand-book of southern authors, from the settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to living writers. (The Franklin-Turner company, 1907), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Money writes! (A. & C. Boni, 1927), by Upton Sinclair and John Beardsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American writers (Holt, 1912), by William P. Trent and John Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of to-day (Silver, Burdett and company, 1910), by Henry C. Vedder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literary masters (Houghton Mifflin, 1906), by Leon H. Vincent, Bruce Rogers, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), and Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York in literature : the story told in the landmarks of town and country (Primavera Press, 1947), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson and Otilie Erickson Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our short story writers (Moffat, Yard & Company, 1920), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authors' ancestry. (E. L. Freeman company, printers, 1915), by John Osborne Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. A book of record concerning former members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Pub. by the Academy, 1922), by American Academy of Arts and Letters and William Milligan Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and talk, 1885-93-95. My hundred thousand miles of travel through America, Australia, Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, and the paradises of the Pacific (Chatto & Windus;, 1896), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature in the making (Harper & brothers, 1917), by Joyce Kilmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great writers of America (Williams and Norgate, 1912), by William P. Trent and John Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our album of authors, : a cyclopedia of popular literary people, (Elliott & Beezley, 1886), by Frank McAlpine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary shrines : the haunts of some famous American authors (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1897), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• An annual for the year 1890; also the lives and portraits of some distinguished authors and poets ... (The Daily democrat, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous authors (women) (L.C. Page & company, 1901), by E. F. Harkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who among North American authors. (Golden syndicate publishing company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A golden age of authors; a publisher's recollection (Houghton Mifflin company, 1919), by William Webster Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our album of authors, : a cyclopedia of popular literary people, (Elliott & Beezley, 1886), by Frank McAlpine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American authors (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1887), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American wife (University of Michigan Press, 2007), by Elaine Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance. (Virtue, 1877), by S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary lights : a book of caricatures (A.A. Knopf, 1923), by Gene Markey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women authors of our day in their homes; personal description & interviews (J. Pott & Company, 1903), by Francis W. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little book of friends (Little, Brown and Company, 1916), by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short studies of American authors. (Dee and Shepard;, 1888), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. With portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of authors, British and American (Macmillan, 1926), by Edwin Watts Chubb (page images at HathiTrust)
• My maiden effort; being the personal confessions of well-known American authors as to their literary beginnings (Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), by Gelett Burgess and Authors' League of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary haunts & homes; American authors (J. B. Lippincott company, 1899), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literay masterpieces; Franklin: Irving: Bryant: Webster: Everett: Longfellow: Hawthorne: Whittier: Emerson: Holmes: Lowell: Poe: Henry: Wirt: Johnson: Timrod: Lanier: Tabb (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors at home; personal and biographical sketches of well-known American writers (Cassell & company, limited, 1889), by Jeannette L. Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature through illustrative readings (C. Scribner's sons, 1915), by Sarah E. Simons (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of to-day (Silver, Burdett and company, 1894), by Henry C. Vedder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys in literature (L. C. Page, 1906), by Helen M. Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature : in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature : a study of the men and the books that in the earlier and later times reflect the American spirit (Ginn and Company, 1913), by William J. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young people's story of American literature. (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922), by Ida Prentice Whitcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary pilgrimages in New England to the homes of famous makers of American literature and among their haunts and the scenes of their writings (Silver, Burdett & Company, 1902), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of a hostess; a chronicle of eminent friendships drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields (The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler, 1857), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• American lands and letters ... (C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Donald Grant Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• American men of letters; their nature and nurture (1916), by Edwin Leavitt Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persons and places (Broadway publishing company, 1905), by Joel Benton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Backgrounds of literature (The Macmillan Company;, 1904), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to living authors (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1890), by John A. Steuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American authors (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American authors (Houghton, Mifflin, 1901), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some magazines and magazine makers (The Stratford company, 1924), by John Eldridge Drewry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Innocence abroad (A.A. Knopf, 1931), by Emily Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syllabus of a course of six lectures on representative American authors ... ([Philadelphia, 1891), by Josiah Harmar Penniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of famous people (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1927), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance; a personal retrospect of American authorship. (Harper, 1911), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature : in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson, 1875), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1866), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of American poetry, with critical and biographical notices. In three volumes. (S.G. Goodrich and Co., 1829), by Samuel Kettell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of American literature; Franklin: Irving: Bryant: Webster: Everett: Longfellow: Hawthorne: Whittier: Emerson: Holmes: Lowell: Thoreau: Poe: O'Reilly; with biographical sketches. (Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1902), by H. N. Wheeler and John Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• American lands and letters... (C. Scribner's sons, 1899), by Donald Grant Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern authors in poetry and prose (Neale Pub. Co., 1908), by Kate Alma Orgain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The friendly club and other portraits (E. V. Mitchell ;, 1922), by Francis Parsons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poets' homes : pen and pencil sketches of American poets and their homes (D. Lothrop and company, 1879), by Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southland writers. Biographical and critical sketches of the living female writers of the South. With extracts from their writings. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys in literature (L.C. Page & Co., 1902), by Helen M. Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson, 1890), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of American literature (American Book Co., 1911), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks about authors and their work (A. Flanagan, 1899), by Ella Reeve Bloor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American authors (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backgrounds of literature (Macmillan, 1912), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A hand-book of English literature. (Lee and Shepard;, 1874), by Francis Henry Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American authors. (Gale Research Co., 1969), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors' birthdays. 2d series, containing the exercises for the celebration of the birthdays of Bayard Taylor, Lowell, Howells, Motley, Emerson, Saxe, Thoreau, E.S. Phelps-Ward, Parkman, Cable, Aldrich, J.C. Harris (C.W. Bardeen, 1899), by C. W. Bardeen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen and ink sketches of authors and authoresses (Partridge and Oakey, 1852), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America. (Porter & Coates, 1870), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of Abimelech Coody and other celebrated writers of New York: in a letter from a traveller to his friend in South Carolina; January, 1815. (Priv. print, 1864), by DeWitt Clinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of American authors (Educational Pub. Co., 1895), by Jennie Ellis Keysor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors' birthdays. First series containing exercises for the celebration of the birthdays of Poe, Longfellow, T.B. Read, Irving ... (C.W. Bardeen, 1898), by C. W. Bardeen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors' birthdays. 3d series. Containing exercises for the celebration of the birthdays of Franklin, Curtis, Whipple, D.G. Mitchell, Prescott, Celia Thaxter, Stodard, Bret Harte, Theodore Winthrop, Stedman, Mark Twain, Higginson (C.W. Bardeen, 1899), by C. W. Bardeen (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authors and their homes : personal descriptions and interviews (J. Pott & Co., 1905), by Francis W. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors of our day in their homes; personal descriptions & interviews (J. Pott & company, 1902), by Francis W. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our album of authors, a cyclopedia of popular literary people (Elliott & Beezley, 1885), by Frank McAlpine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes of American authors : comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches (D. Appleton, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acts and anecdotes of authors. Facts for every reader about prominent American books, authors, and publishers; English books and authors; popular translations, dramas, operas, etc. (New England publishing co., 1887), by Charles Mason Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American scholar (American Unitarian association, 1907), by Theodore Parker and George Willis Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A directory of writers for the literary press, particularly in the United States. (W.M. Griswold, 1890), by W. M. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of American literature (American Book Company, 1918), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (Carey and Hart, 1849), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America; with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (A. Hart, 1852), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les nouveaux romanciers américains (Calmann-Levy, 1885), by Th. Bentzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscent sketches (Press of the Bryant print], 1902), by Aella Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature : in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson, 1871), by William Francis Collier and William H. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative names in the history of English literature (D. Appleton, 1876), by Horace H. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets and novelists: a series of literary studies. (D. Appleton, 1876), by George Barnett Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature in a series of biographical sketches. (T. Nelson and Sons, 1900), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters to living authors (United States book co., 1890), by John A. Steuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous authors (women) (L.C. Page & company, 1906), by E. F. Harkins, Amy M. Sacker, C.H. Simonds & Co, and L.C. Page & Company (1897-1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal sketches of recent authors (A. C. McClurg, 1899), by Hattie Tyng Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary haunts & homes American authors (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys. (Roycraft press, 1895), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's handbook of British and American literature : with selections from the writings of the most distinguished authors (J. Murphy, 1891), by O. L. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erlebtes (K. Heinzen, 1864), by Karl Heinzen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-lives of master writers, (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1927), by Charles Harlow Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acts and anecdotes of authors. (New England Pub. Co., 1889), by Charles M. Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who among North American authors ... (Golden syndicate pub. Co., 1925), by Alberta *Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America ... (Leavitt & Allen, 1858), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• American lands and letters: the Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle. (Scribner's, 1897), by Donald Grant Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America.: With a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country. (A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1851), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (Butler, 1855), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authors and their birthdays. Programmes and suggestions for the celebration of the birthdays of authors. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1887), by Alfred S. Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• American journalist and author blue book (American blue book publishers, 1923), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chapter on autography by Edgar Allan Poe (L. MacVeagh, 1926), by Edgar Allan Poe and Don Carlos Seitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature in a series of biographical sketches. (T. Nelson and sons, 1888), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary shrines; the haunts of some famous American authors (Lippincott, 1897), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Crosby's story of ninety-four years (Flemming H. Revell company, 1915), by Fanny Crosby and S. Trevena Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of southern literature (The Martin & Hoyt company, 1909), by Lucian Lamar Knight, C. Alphonso Smith, Charles W. Kent, Joel Chandler Harris, and Edwin Anderson Alderman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen pictures of earlier Victorian authors. (Putnam's, 1884), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief handbook of American authors. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backgrounds of literature (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen authors to one (Lewis Copeland, 1928), by David Karsner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary spotlight, with a pref. by John Farrar; with portrait caricatures by William Gropper. (G.H. Doran, 1924), by John Chipman Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (Carey and Hart, 1847), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southland writers : biographical and critical sketches of the living female writers of the South ; with extracts from their writings (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869), by Mary T. Tardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary haunts & homes; American authors (J. B. Lippincott company, 1898), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Fern : a memorial volume containing her select writings and a memoir (Carleton, 1989), by Fanny Fern and James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home ballads (Bunce and Huntington, 1865), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Charlotte Elizabeth (M.W. Dodd, 1844), by Charlotte Elizabeth and Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's handbook of British and American literature : with selections from the writings of the most distinguished authors (Murphy, 1880), by Oliver Louis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbs swept up (Evans, Stoddard, 1870), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Round Table series. (W. Brown, 1887), by H. Bellyse Baildon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (B. Tauchnitz, 1883), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving and contemporaries, in thirty life sketches (W. H. Kelley & Co., 1867), by William Watson Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crayon miscellany (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of American literature : Franklin: Irving: Bryant: Webster: Everett: Longfellow: Hawthorne: Whittier: Emerson: Holmes: Lowell: Thoreau: Poe: O'Rilley; with biographical sketches and portraits. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : With a survey of the history, condition, and prospects of American literature. Illustrated with portraits from original pictures. (Carey and Hart, 1847), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American authors (T.Y. Crowell & co., 1887), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years among authors, books and publishers (G. W. Carleton & co., 1884), by J. C. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of American literature (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1902), by H. N. Wheeler and John Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance (Harper & brothers, 1902), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crayon miscellany (Lippincott, 1872), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of an actress, or, Eight years on the stage (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance of Cyrano de Bergerac (F.T. Neely, 1899), by Raymond Fuller Ayers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America : with portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings (E.H. Butler, 1851), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short studies of American authors. (reprinted for the Americanist Press by the Rozov Press, 1967), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The singers and their songs; sketches of living Gospel hymn writers (The Rodeheaver company, 1916), by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years among authors, books and publishers (G.W. Carleton ;, 1884), by J. C. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary shrines : the haunts of some famous American authors (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Theodore F. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and talk 1885-93-95 my hundred thousand miles of travel through America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Ceylon and the paradises of the Pacific (Chatto & Windus;, 1896), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Washington Irving (P.F. Collier, 1897), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1897), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen pictures of modern authors. (G. P. Putnam, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concord days (Roberts Brothers, 1888), by Amos Bronson Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of American authors (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A directory of writers for the literary press in the U.S. ... (Q.P. Index, 1884), by W. M. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of American literature (Ann Arbor, Michigan : University Microfilms, Inc., 1966., 1966), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Authors and friends. (Houghton, Mifflin;, 1897), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature in a series of biographical sketches ... (Nelson, 1882), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backgrounds of literature (Grosset & Dunlap, 1911), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four famous American writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor; a book for young Americans (Werner School Book Company, 1899), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature : in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson and Sons, 1877), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson and sons, 1902), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calmire. (MacMillan and co., 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature : in a series of biographical sketches (T. Nelson, 1880), by William Francis Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Save your minutes : a narrative of the boyhood of Earnest Carlton (Cranston & Stowe, 1892), by Omer T. Gillett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voices from Erin : and other poems (Little, Brown, 1917), by Denis Aloysius McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maugis, ye sorcer : from ye ancient French : a wonderful tale from ye writings of ye mad savant of ye Maison Maugis in ye olde citie of Mouzon, France / by Lord Gilhooley [pseud.]. (F. Tennison Neely, 1898), by Lord Gilhooley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evenings in the library : bits of gossip about books and those who write them (Belford Brothers, 1878), by George Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solarion; a romance. (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Edgar Fawcett, George William Childs, and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature : a study of the men and the books that in the earlier and later times reflect the American spirit (Ginn and Company, 1913), by William J. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends (Houghton, Mifflin, 1897), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character studies, with some personal recollections. (T. Whittaker, 1894), by Frederick Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mjallhvít : æfintýri handa börnum (Bókaverslun Guðm. Gamalíelssonar, 1922), by Jacob Grimm and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• $5000 reward. (Laird & Lee, Publishers, 1886), by A. Frank Pinkerton and Laird & Lee (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• One of the profession (Home Book Company, 1893), by Matthew White and Home Book Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• His brother's crime (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898), by John R. Musick and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old homestead. (Street & Smith, Publishers, 1889), by Denman Thompson and Street and Smith Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of a medical student. (George Munro's Sons, Publishers, 1869), by Jupiter Paeon and George Munro's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man from Wall Street : a novel (W.B. Conkey Company, 1894), by St. George Rathborne and W.B. Conkey Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lizzie Melton : a self-reliant girl (The Author, 1900), by Albert Chavannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of lowly ministry. (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899), by I. Mench Chambers and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secret of the thunderbird. (Laird & Lee, 1898), by H. A. Stanley and Laird & Lee (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A transplated lily : a novel (G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, 1899), by Sydney J. Wilson and G.W. Dillingham Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tampa story. (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898), by Thomas Mitchell Shackleford, Frank Tennyson Neely, and William Wilson De Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saranac : a story of Lake Champlain (William H. Young & Company, 1901), by John Talbot Smith and William H. Young and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of King Milcho. (P. J. Kenedy :, 1896), by William Collins, Patrick John Kenedy, and Excelsior Catholic Publishing House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Her rescue from the Turks : a novel (F. Tennyson Neely, 1896), by St. George Rathborne and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our short story writers (Moffat, Yard & Company, 1922), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allibone's dictionary of English literature and British and American authors (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The master minds of the West: their best poems, thoughts, essays, and tales. (W. Tweedie, 1850), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative names in the history of English literature (American School Book Co., 1875), by Horace H. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. With portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings. (E. H. Butler, 1866), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors at home; personal and biographical sketches of well known American writers (Cassell publishing company, 1889), by Jeannette L. Gilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South in history and literature : a hand-book of southern authors, from the settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to living writers (Franklin-Turner, 1906), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. : A medley in prose and verse. (George W. Harlan & Co., publishers, 1882), by Richard Henry Stoddard and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flight of Icarus; an idyl of Printing-house square. (F. T. Neely, 1898), by Jay Robin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems (Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by Lucretia Maria Davidson and Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl from Hong-Kong : a story of adventure under five suns (Street & Smith, 1899), by St. George Rathborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to living authors (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1892), by John A. Steuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nasby letters. Being the original Nasby letters (The Toledo Blade Co., 1893), by David Ross Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• American men of letters : their nature and nurture (Columbia University, 1916), by Edwin Leavitt Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ohio literary men and women : an address prepared for the Ohio centennial celebration (Press of F.J. Heer, 1904), by William Henry Venable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castilian days (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1903), by John Hay, Bruce Rogers, Joseph Pennell, and Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes of American authors (G. P. Putnam and co.; [etc., etc.], 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-odd years in the literary shop (E.P. Dutton, 1921), by James L. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters from a life (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our short stroy writers. (Moffat, Yard & co., 1922), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years among authors, books and publishers (G. W. Carleton ;, 1886), by J. C. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our short story writers. (Dodd, 1926), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Manoa : a novel (D. Appleton and Co., 1932), by Glenn Allan and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years among authors, books and publishers (M. A. Winter, 1885), by J. C. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's handbook of British and American literature (J. Murphy & co.;, 1876), by Oliver Louis Jerkins and George Ernest Viger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance (Harper & brothers, 1900), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• American authors' birthdays : programs and materials (Press of the Hampton normal and agricultural institute, 1917), by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American authors (Crowell, 1924), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our short story writers. (Dodd, Mead, 1941), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in contentment (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1925), by David Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the woods (Houghton Mifflin ;, 1893), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent American literature (Littlefield, Adams, 1961), by Mary Elizabeth Burtis and Paul Spencer Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random notes on the authors of Buffalo. Paper read before the society March 18 and April 15, 1889. (1896), by Frank H. Severance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of distinguished American authors, represented in Darley's new national picture entitled Washington Irving and his literary friends, at Sunnyside. (Sanford, Harroun, & Co., Printers, 1864), by N.Y.) Irving Publishing Company (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature through illustrative readings, 1608-1928 (C. Scribner's sons, 1928), by Sarah E. Simons (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers, a series of papers contributed to Blackwood's magazine (1824-1825) (Duke University Press, 1937), by John Neal and Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Catholic authors. (First- series) Informal self-portraits of famous modern Catholic writers (W. Romig, 1942), by Walter Romig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aftermath : Part second of "A Kentucky cardinal" (Macmillan, 1903), by James Lane Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain's autobiography, with an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. (G. Wells, 1924), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Whitman, and Bradford Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of American literature (American Book Company, 1911), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern writers; selections in prose and verse (Macmillan Co.;, 1923), by William Peterfield Trent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hearts courageous (The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902), by Hallie Erminie Rives and A. B. Wenzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese homes and their surroundings (Ticknor and Co., 1886), by Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends. (Houghton Mifflin, 1896), by Annie Fields, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literary masters, by Leon H. Vincent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Friendly Club and Other Portraits, by Francis Parsons (Gutenberg ebook)
• Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers, ed. by Joyce Kilmer (Gutenberg ebook)

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