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Arthur Miller Society
Arthur Miller is an important force in American drama. Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for Death of a Salesman. He has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the American Theatre, and his plays, a fusion of naturalistic and expressionistic techniques, continue to be widely produced. His major characters are ordinary and suffering individuals seemingly trapped by naturalistic circumstances. And yet, Miller points out, they have dignity if not human greatness.
Site includes a chronology, newsletter and current events.

Charles Deemer: a Literary Archive
Plays, hyperdrama, screenplays, fiction, essays, poems, audio and video by Charles Deemer, a hyperdrama pioneer who in 1994 put up the first website for screenwriters and playwrights.

Eldritch Press
Here are free, accessible books. Read them and go in peace. Everything at this site has now been placed in the public domain with a Creative Commons deed (except two or three pieces copyrighted by others and used by permission). This site is dedicated to the Public Domain

Internet Poetry Archive
A selection of some of the world's greatest poets reading their poetry. Both sound and text are available. Currently featured are Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Pinsky.

LiteralSystems. The Sound of Classic Literature.
Human readings of Classic Literature and Poetry recorded and distributed under Creative Commons Licensing.

OVO
"At every turn in its thought, society will find us - waiting." New works in the public domain since 1987. Hundreds of pages of the zine OVO, edited and published by Trevor Blake.

Paul Green
Dramatist, teacher and author Paul Green is one of North Carolina's most revered writers and one of America's most distinguished. He grew up on a cotton farm in rural Harnett County, North Carolina, learning the value of hard physical labor as well as the importance and beauty of literature and music. He read books in the fields as he followed a mule-drawn plow and taught himself to play the violin, and would later compose music for his own dramas. Mr. Green pioneered in the field of outdoor historical drama. The Lost Colony, which has been remianed in production since 1937.
Paul Green's first Broadway play, In Abraham's Bosom, won a Pulitzer Prize, and was followed by six more Broadway plays over his lifetime, as well as numerous other short and full-length plays, screenplays, short story collections, and books of non-fiction.
Paul Green Foundation provides an extensive photo archive, a short biography by Green's daughter and annotated bibliography and index of Green's papers.

Paul Green: Dramatist and Activist
North Carolina-born Paul Green (1894-1981) was one of the South’s most revered writers, and one of America’s most distinguished. The first playwright from the South to gain national and international recognition, he was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world.

Site contains information on the Paul Green Foundation, a bibliography, a daughter's biography, photo gallery, Paul Green papers, honors, and essays.

Project Gutenberg
You will find classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors including Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, and over 15,500 other books. Books are almost always available in plain text format, with many in HTML and other formats. Other than books, additional content types include musical scores, movies and sound files. Most Project Gutenberg eBooks are in the public domain in the US, so tend to be from items published prior to 1923. A text file lists all the titles.

PublicLiterature.org
PublicLiterature.org provides a user-friendly interface to read books online. Many tools are provided to explore and utilize this collection of public domain books, poetry, tutorials and audio.

The Series Zealot
Need some justification for your trashy reading habits? Redefine all that has been taught you and embrace the popular canon. The Series Zealot systematically redeems the most popular teen series with literary analysis and critical commentary.

Timeless Truths Free Online Library
Timeless Truths is a free online library with resources including books, midi, sheet music, and more. It is dedicated to the edification of those who love God, and to seriously address the questions and concerns of those who wish to inquire about the Bible and how we should live. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

Vonnegut-land
An amazing compendium of information by, about, surrounding and involving Kurt Vonnegut (author of Slaughterhouse Five, Welcome to the Monkey House, and others).

Walker Percy Project
This project promotes the thought and literary legacy of the American Southern "philosophical" novelist Walker Percy. The museum section provides an extensive photograph archive as well as a collection of commemorative statements about Percy. The library area offers interviews, literary criticism, essays and teaching resources about the writing of Percy, as well as a links library to other scholarly resources.

What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common
This chapbook of poetry won a publication award in 1989 and was quickly sold out. I published it on the net early in 1992 making it one of the earliest poetry or book WWW publications.