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American Authors - Biography Research: Project Overview

Project Description

1. Research your term and take notes in the notecard feature in NoodleTools. 

2. Cite your sources in NoodleTools. 

Project Notes

Once your topic (see list below) is assigned, you will research the topic using the databases provided in this guide. If you would like at the full list of Catoctin databases, click HERE. 

With your research, you will be required to 

  • Share your NoodleTools project with your teacher. 
  • Use the notecards feature in Noodletools to take notes off of the databases. 
  • Utilize the databases first before venturing onto the web for additional research. 

A few notes: 

  • In some of the databases you can highlight and take notes directly on the articles. 
  • As you find relevent database articles, make sure to immediately cite those sources so that
    • They are available as sources in the notecards. 
    • You do not have to back track to find your sources at the end of your project. 
  • Utilize Britannica Imagequest as your first means of finding images to use. 

American Authors

Louisa May Alcott

Julia Alvarez

Maya Angelou*

Jean Auel

James Baldwin

Stephen Vincent Benet*

Elizabeth Bishop*

Ray Bradbury

Gwendolyn Brooks*

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Truman Capote

Willa Cather

Michael Chabon

Stephen Chbosky

Kate Chopin

Sandra Cisneros

James Clavell

Lucille Clifton*

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Billy Collins*

Pat Conroy

James Fenimore Cooper

Stephen Crane

Countee Cullen*

Maria Cummins

Edwidge Danticat

Nelson DeMille

Philip Dick

Emily Dickinson*

Annie Dillard

Paul Laurence Dunbar*

Jennifer Egan

Ralph Ellison

Margarita Engle

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald

Charles Frazier

Alice French

Robert Frost*

Ernest J. Gaines

Allen Ginsberg*

John Grisham

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Joseph Heller

Ernest Hemingway

Tony Hillerman

S.E. Hinton

Khaled Hosseini

Langston Hughes*

Zora Neale Hurston

John Irving

Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Ha Jin

Garrison Keillour

Jack Kerouac*

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

 

 

Jamaica Kincaid

Stephen King

Barbara Kingsolver

John Knowles

Yusef Komunyakaa*

Louis L'Amour

Emma Lazarus*

Harper Lee

Jack London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*

H.P. Lovecraft

Lois Lowry

Bernard Malamud

Edgar Lee Masters*

Cormac McCarthy

Herman Melville

Arthur Miller**

Margaret Mitchell

Toni Morrison

Naomim Shihab Nye*

Tim O'Brien

Flannery O'Connor

Joyce Carol Oates

Chuck Palahniuk

James Patterson

Ann Petry

Sylvia Plath*

Edgar Allan Poe*

Katherine Porter

Ezra Pound*

Annie Proulx

Ayn Rand

Kim Ronyoung

J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg*

Jeff Shaara

Upton Sinclair

Jane Smiley

Gary Soto*

Art Spiegelman

Gertrude Stein

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Amy Tan

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau*

Mark Twain

Anne Tyler

John Updike

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

Colson Whitehead

Walt Whitman*

Tennessee Williams**

William Carlos Williams*

Richard Wright

Paul Zindel

 

 

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