The following websites offer information about the books or authors mentioned in the list of recommended books.

http://www.mayaangelou.com/
Maya Angelou

http://www.datasync.com/~davidg59/alicia.html
Alicia Appleman-Jurman

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154653.html
Russell Baker

http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=4251
Lorenzo Carcaterra

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm
Truman Capote

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/E/htmlE/ellerbeelin/ellerbeelin.htm
Linda Ellerbee

http://www.annefrank.com/
Anne Frank

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/mccourt_index.html
Frank McCourt

http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/keller.htm
Helen Keller

http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/guides/malcolmx.html
Malcolm X

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm
Alex Haley

http://sun.menloschool.org/~sportman/ethnic/individual/mccall/
Nathan McCall

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/rhohol.html
Richard Rhodes

http://www.cheverote.com/piri.html
Piri Thomas

http://www.clancyfaq.com/
Tom Clancy

http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-clark-mary.asp
Mary Higgins Clark

http://www.james.dickey.com/main.html
James Dickey

http://www.ken-follett.com/
Ken Follett

http://www.william-golding.co.uk/
William Golding

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/guterson.html
David Guterson

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/thomasharris/
Thomas Harris

http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com/
Daniel Keyes

http://www.stephenking.com/
Stephen King

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/koontz/fche/index.html
Dean Koontz

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/HarperLee/
Harper Lee

http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi006/malamud/
Bernard Malamud

http://aalbc.com/authors/terry.htm
Terry McMillan

http://www.gwtw.org/margaretmitchell/mm_core.html
Margaret Mitchell

http://www.pbs.org/harriman/current/2001_part/peck.html
Robert Peck

http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/index.htm
J.K. Rowling

http://www.salinger.org/
J.D. Salinger

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/
J.R.R. Tolkien

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white.html
E.B. White

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html
George Eliot

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm
Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm
Herman Melville

http://www.marktwainhouse.org/
Mark Twain