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Google brings in a remarkable range of speakers and authors to its workplace, all of which are broadcast through Authors@Google. These are like TED Talks but not all fall into those same categories.

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located. The author of each story is listed on the preface page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information. This educational teaching/learning tool is also designed to support state and national standards. Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment.

Sleek interactive site about media in society. Here is their description: ADText is authored by Professor William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Professor O'Barr (mack@duke.edu) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in advertising and its relation to society, culture and history. He is author of Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising (1994). He is also founding editor of the online journal, Advertising & Society Review.

Famous authors narrate the funny pages.

The author of A Whole New Mind's website/blog.

Authors' blog with recommendations, reviews, and book news about titles for middle grade children (3rd-6th).

Great resources for students:  charts and maps the writers drew as they planned books or lessons Auden's chart on Romanticism, Nabokov on Ulysses Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Vonnegut onthe shape of the story, etc.  Just wow

The History of England is an early work of Jane Austen. She completed the composition in November 1791 when she was just 15 years old. Jane Austen's History is a lively parody which makes fun of the standard schoolroom books of the time. Declaring herself to be a 'partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian' she cites works of fiction, such as Shakespeare's plays, as historial authority and includes references to her own family and friends. Jane's older sister Cassandra illustrated the text with imaginative portraits of the English monarchs

This exhibition traces the different occupations and preparations that led Whitman to become the author of Leaves of Grass, as well as his subsequent evolution as a poet. Over almost forty years Whitman produced multiple editions of Leaves of Grass.

If you feel a subject area is missing and you think a page needs to be added, feel free to tweet or e-mail your suggestions or comments to the author of this wiki: gina.hartman@fhsdschools.org or ghartman on Twitter

Website created by author James Patterson who found that his own son did not like reading. Dedicated to books boys will like.

Author John Scalzi shares the importance of finding time to write or not.

YA author, Meg Cabot's personal experiences on 9/11/01.

I do not know whether to laugh or cry. Author obviously is a dedicated reader but non readers will not even get the joke! 

Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.

Jog the Web is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.

Scroll all the way to the end for a list of authors and categories.

Annual contest: write a letter to the author of a poem or book that changed your life. Great writing assignment.