Each day, this site provides a different biography or interesting story about a great book or day in literary history. Many of the archived articles are available in full; others are available only in summary for free access. Authors run the gamut from Peter Abelard to Emile Zola with several hundred in between. In addition to the daily story, archives can be searched alphabetically and are grouped by "Classical," "International," and "Poets

Concepts

literature

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Additional Tags

author biographies, author biography, great books, great writers, literary events, literary history

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RL.6.9 W.7.9.a RL.7.9 RI.9-10.7 RI.6.9