Literary Reference

A selection of programmes from the BBC archive - author interviews and profiles.

BBC's Modern Writers Collection provides archived interviews with 20th century authors like Virginia Wolf, Kingsley Amis, and JRR Tolkien. These interviews reveal something of their imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels.

This Website maintained by the Library of Congress can help you identify a literary work when you only know its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase.

Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. There is more great literary content online than ever before, but it is scattered, easily lost—with the help of its editorial partners, Lit Hub is a site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books. Each day—alongside original content and exclusive excerpts—Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits.

The Paris Review began in the 1950's as a literary magazine. On the Website you will find original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers such as: T.S. Elliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, and Jesmyn Ward just to name a few.

Offers over 56,000 books in the public domain, for literature in which copyright has expired. This website allows you to download an e-version to your desktop or your kindle, with or without images. You will also find books in Portuguese, German, & French.

This Website maintained by Mississippi State University Libraries connects southern places in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi that inspired great American writers of the 20th century to create classic fiction and plays.