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• Novelists, American -- Biography

• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hawthorne, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Hawthorne and His Circle, by Julian Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• James Fenimore Cooper (sixth edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (PDF at gasl.org)
• James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary Elizabeth Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George Lewis Prentiss, contrib. by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)
• Memories of Hawthorne, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George Edward Woodberry (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Horatio Bridge (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• A Study of Hawthorne, by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne (illustrated HTML and commentary at ibiblio.org)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Gale Research Co., 1967), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herman Melville, mariner and mystic (George H. Doran Co., 1921), by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife; a biography (Reprint Services Corp., 1992), by Julian Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passages from the American note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Scholarly Press, 1970), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frank Norris, 1870-1902 : an intimate sketch of the man who was universally acclaimed the greatest American writer of his generation (DP [i.e. Doubleday Page], 1914), by Charles Gilman Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Fenimore Cooper. (Scholarly Press, 1969), by William Bradford Shubrick Clymer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passages from the American note-books (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Dean Howells : a critical study (1917), by Delmar Gross Cooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne (R.G. Badger ;, 1906), by Frank Preston Stearns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hawthorne's country (Musson, 1910), by Helen A. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amos Bronson Alcott, his character : a sermon (Roberts Brothers, 1888), by C. A. Bartol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic, by Raymond M. Weaver (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop: Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg ebook)
• All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography: The Red Leaves of a Human Heart, by Amelia E. Barr (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Fenimore Cooper: American Men of Letters, by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper, Edited by His Grandson, James Fenimore Cooper (some printed issues as 2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • single-volume printing: PDF at gasl.org
• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)
• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (Yale University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg ebook)

• Passages from the English note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Fields, Osgood, & co., 1870), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Bigelow & Co Welch, and Osgood & Co Fields (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Women Who Make Our Novels, by Grant M. Overton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Willa Cather: A Literary Life (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, c1987), by James Leslie Woodress (HTML at unl.edu)
• Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (c1999), by Michael Palin, illust. by Basil Pao (illustrated HTML at commentary in the UK)
• A Book About Myself (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1922), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkes Scrapbook: A New Taste in Literature, by John Hawkes, ed. by C. W. Tazewell (HTML at archive.org)
• Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief (as originally published in Life Magazine, July 20, 1962), by William Styron (page images at Google)
• With love from Gracie : Sinclair Lewis, 1912-1925 (Harcourt, Brace, 1955), by Grace Hegger Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echo of a cry: a story which began in China (Harcourt, Brace, 1945), by Mai-mai Sze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Wolfe, Carolina student : a brief biography (University of North Carolina Library, 1955), by Agatha Boyd Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Upton Sinclair : biographical and critical opinions. (Upton Sinclair, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theodore Dreiser; America's foremost novelist. (J. Lane Co., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt, Brace, 1925), by Oliver Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inglis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation. (University of North Carolina Library, 1952), by Richard Walser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Roping lions in the Grand Canyon (Harper, 1924), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book About Myself, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920), by Carl Van Doren (Gutenberg ebook)

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