Literature and Writers 

Welcome to the Literature and Writers research guide!

Search for books with ACC Library's online catalog.

Subject headings like these work well to find books in the ACC Library:

Short stories
Afro-American authors
Authors, American
Juvenile fiction
Criticism
Literature history and criticism theory
Science fiction
American prose literature
Faulkner, William

If you don't find enough, use broader subjects: American authors, women authors, gay and lesbian authors, and the like.

To find books by an author, type the last name first, and use the Author search choice.

To find books about writing, the terms Authorship or Rhetoric work well in most databases.

I Was a Teenage Illiterate

Faulkner Link to Plantation Diary Discovered

The Battle for Jack  Kerouac's Estate

Arts & Letters Daily   A NEWSPAPER FOR THE LITERARY  

The Gale publishing company's paper indexes for the following titles are on the shelves; the volumes are on the second floor; the electronic index for the following publications is located in the Literature Resource Center (ACC Library> Finding Articles > Subject Databases > Literature Resource Center).  Or you can enter "Gale Literary Index in Google, or enter the following URL:

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex;jsessionid=F37D705BE1AC24E92F86845C5053FC9A

The following Gale publications are on our shelves:

The Beat Generation : A Gale Critical Companion
Ref  PS 228.B6 B43 2003 Vol.3

Contemporary Literary Criticism Index Ref PN 771 .C59

Contemporary Literary Criticism volumes circulate and are on the second floor  PN 771 .G27

Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index                         Ref Z 1224 .C6

Contemporary Authors volumes circulate and are on the second floor  Z 1224 .C58    

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series
Ref  PS 129 .D52

Dictionary of Literary Biography ( We own approximately 50 selected volumes of the DLB series.)
Ref PS 21 .D52 VOL.193                                                                         

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Index
Ref PN 761 .N56

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism volumes circulate and are on the second floor PN 761 .N58

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations
Ref PR 2965 .S44 VOl.30

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Index
Ref PN 771 .G27

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism volumes circulate and are on the second floor PN 771 .G27

Need more books? See Finding Books.

ACC Libary's reference collection has hundreds of reference books for literature research, in the call number area P (Literature) on the main floor.

The reference books include literary criticism, author biographies, literary themes and genres (science fiction, horror, children's books, etc.), literary dictionaries, quotation books, reference books covering one particular author (Shakespeare, Chaucer, Poe, many others) and much, much more. Click on the Advanced Seach tab at the top of the search screen in the catalog; enter the specific terms for which you are looking; and select "Reference" from the drop down menu in the Collections section.

A to Z of American Women Writers
Ref PS 147 .K67 2000

American History through Literature 1820-1870
Ref PS 217 .H57  A84  2006

Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide
Ref PS 153.A84 A828 2003

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
Ref PS 228.B6 E53 2007

Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature
Ref PN 56.E7 E53 2006

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction
Ref PR 830.F3 D36 2006

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Ref PS 153.N5 A24 2003

Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
Ref PN 56 H55 E53  2002

Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism
Ref PS 217.T7 W39 2006

Encyclopedia of World Writers
Ref PN 451 .E55 2005

Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Ref PS 330 .F33 2004

 Facts On File Companion to the British Novel
Ref PR 821 .F2 2006

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature
Ref PS 153.M56 G74 2005

Hispanic Literature of the United States
Ref PS 153.H56 K36 2003

Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works  
Ref PS 153 .H56 2003

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Ref G 465 .L565 2003

Oxford Companion to English Literature
Ref PR 19 .O94 2006

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Ref PS 21 .O94 2004

NetLibrary is a small collection of about 5000 full-text, electronic books. You may view the chapters of the books online. Books range from classic novels to recent books on technology and include reference books. ACC students, faculty and staff may search this from off-campus.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. This collection contains more than 15,000 eBooks. Most are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded, read and redistributed for non-commercial use.

LibriVox  offers free audio books downloadable to your IPod. Books are classic novels, etc. that are in public domain; books are read by volunteers.