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Categories
Categories group authors who have written about similar
themes, or who have shared some other common trait (like their birthplace).
By linking them together, we hope you may discover some new talent in
the archives...
- Adventure
- ripping yarns and tales of adventure
- African American
- activitsts, politicians and leaders involved in the African American movement for abolishing slavery and racism in the U.S.A.
- American Authors
- Writers who were either born in, or who lived and wrote in the U.S.A.
- American Poets
- Poets who were either born in, or who lived and wrote in the U.S.A.
- American Politics
- statesmen and women of the U.S.A.
- Art
- writing on art; about or by artists
- Biographies
- life stories
- British Essayists
- including general nonfiction such as travel guides and sermons
- British Novelists
- Authors who were either born in, or who lived and wrote in the United Kingdom
- British Playwrights
- For playwrights who were either born in, or who lived and wrote in Great Britain
- British Poets
- Versifiers who were either born in, or who lived and wrote in the United Kingdom
- Children's Authors
- authors of books considered safe enough to be read to or by younger readers without raising too many difficult questions. YMMV
- Comedy
- There's a lot of overlap between this and the 'satirists' category, but I've tried to make a distinction.
- Existentialists
- authors writing about individuality, individual freedom and subjectivity
- Fantasy
- Folks who wrote about the faery realms
- French Writers
- a wealth of translated works have come to us from this great country
- Goncourt Winners
- The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French language literature, given to the author of "the best imaginary prose work of the year".
- Greeks and Romans
- Q: What do you get when you cross Plato with a potato?
A: An old codger/tater
- History
- books by or about those who made history
- Horror
- semi-scary B-grade through to true Gothic terror
- Laureates
- Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Musicians
- by or about musicians
- Mystery
- Murders, detective work and literary puzzles
- Mythology
- tales from history and the human psyche
- Naturalists
- Naturalists are concerned with real worldliness. They wish to portray a sense of what life is really like for their characters.
- Nature
- folks who looked at what was around them and asked 'why?' - or who just looked...
- Nautical
- tales from the sea
- Philosophers
- great cogitators
- Psychology
- thinking about why people think and act the way they do
- Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Authors who have won the Pulitzer Prize for their novels, poetry, bigraphical writing or even music
- Religion
- works of a religious nature or about the religious experience
- Romance
- authors who explore feelings and relationships, sometimes quite a brutal field
- Russian Authors
- folks who lived in or wrote about mother Russia
- S.F.
- early science fiction and speculative fiction (including descriptions of utopian societies)
- Satirists
- scoffing with style
- Science
- books by or about famous scientists or scientific endeavours
- Socialism
- including a couple who are just anti-capitalists
- Suffragettes
- advocates of women's rights
- Supernatural
- Ghost stories, the unknowable and transcendental
- Thrillers
- a category for authors who wrote spy stories and/or political thrillers
- Tragedy
- writers of stories where things just don't go right
- Transcendentalists
- Transcendentalism is the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining a scientific knowledge of an order of existence transcending the reach of the senses, and of which we can have no sensible experience.
- J. A. Saxton
- Travel and Exploration
- journeys and discoveries
- War
- accounts of warfare, army life and the casualties of war
- Westerns
- the true American West
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