Links and information about Southern gothic writer Truman Capote (1924-1984). Also links to Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper Lee.

Author whose novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" earned him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. Other works include "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Wonder Boys," "Werewolves in Their Youth" and the children's novel "Summerland."

Contributor to periodicals and author of A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Links on Truman Capote's childhood friend, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Harper Lee.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a writer and columnist for the Baltimore Sun papers and founder of the American Mercury. A prolific critic of the American bourgeoisie and democratic pretensions, his wit and observations made him one of the most prominent and influential journalists of the 1920s and 1930s. His writings include numerous columns and autobiographic works; American Language, a seminal study and defense of American English; and Prejudices, a compilation of his views on American culture.

Author of comic novels including Practical Demonkeeping (1992), Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997), Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002), and Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003).

Please submit only sites dealing with the author Joyce Carol Oates or her writings. Sites selling her works should be submitted to the Shopping: Publications: Books category.

Joyce Carol Oates is a 20th century American author, writing mainly fiction. She occasionally publishes under a pseudonym, Rosamond Smith.

A Harvard-educated Easterner, Owen Wister (1860-1938) made his name romanticizing the American West of the late 19th century. With Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Buffalo Bill Cody he helped implant a mythological view of Western purity and nobility in American consciousness. Wister is best known for his 1930 biography of Theodore Roosevelt and for his novel The Virginian, an influential cowboy romance set in Wyoming. He wrote several other books and short stories, and the journals of his travels on the frontier have been published as Owen Wister Out West.