If you’d like to dip into some short, scholarly-adjacent posts on American authors, here are a few:

Edith Wharton

• “What does the painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis have to do with Edith Wharton?” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/what-does-the-painting-surrender-of-lord-cornwallis-have-to-do-with-edith-wharton/
• “Edith Wharton and V. L. Parrington: The Politics of a Literary Reputation.” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/edith-wharton-and-v-l-parrington/

Frank Norris

• “Ten Little-Known Facts about Frank Norris for his Birthday” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/ten-little-known-facts-about-frank-norris-for-his-birthday/

Jack London

• “Jack London’s Voice” BBC Podcast on Jack London’s voice: https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/bbc-podcast-on-jack-london-and-recording-of-his-voice/
• “Did Jack London burn down Wolf House” (Literary Mystery) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/did-jack-london-set-fire-to-wolf-house/
• “Importance of Jack London” (video) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/jack-london-apostle-of-the-american-west-presentation-at-cspan-3-link/ and interview https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/interview-on-jack-london-from-jacklondons-net/

Stephen Crane

• “Did W. D. Howells read Emily Dickinson to Stephen Crane?” (Literary Mystery) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/did-stephen-crane-read-emily-dickinson-better-still-did-w-d-howells-read-dickinsons-poetry-to-crane/
• Review of Stephen Crane Remembered (Biography Corner) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/review-of-stephen-crane-remembered/

Miscellaneous

• “No Irish Need Apply: Myth or Fact?” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/no-irish-need-apply-a-myth-no-its-true/
• “What did a murder case that dominated the tabloids look like 112 years ago? Evelyn Nesbit and Grace Brown” (from Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/biography-corner-evelyn-nesbit-and-grace-brown/
• “John Steinbeck and the Realist Fable” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/steinbeck-and-harper-lee/
• Brief bio of Charles Dudley Warner https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/charles-dudley-warner-1829-1900-brief-biographical-sketch/

So there I was, going along, writing little pieces here on literary mysteries and my take on biographies and tech tools and then . . . 2020. Need I say more? It’s been a year almost to the day since I’ve posted here, but I’m hoping to get back to it, including updating the research materials, CV, etc. 

In the meantime, here are some selected posts until I get new material posted.

• “So you want to write a letter to Edith Wharton” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/so-you-want-to-write-a-letter-to-edith-wharton/
• “Murder on Her Mind: Edith Wharton and Lizzie Borden” in 3 parts (a literary mystery): https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/murder-on-her-mind-did-edith-wharton-write-about-lizzie-borden/
• “Did Edith Wharton know Oscar Wilde?” (a literary mystery):https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/did-edith-wharton-meet-oscar-wilde-during-his-1882-american-tour-a-continuing-literary-mystery/
• “Jack London and Eugene O’Neill: Separated at Birth?” Ken Brandt was kind enough to link to this post over at the Jack London Society site (https://jacklondonsociety.org) https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/jack-london-and-eugene-oneill-separated-at-birth/
• “What made Aaron Burr AARON BURR?” https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/what-made-aaron-burr-aaron-burr-edmund-wilson-and-harriet-beecher-stowe-have-some-answers/
• A lighthearted look at the MLA 8 style guide, soon (in April) to be replaced by MLA 9. https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/mla-style-guide-8th-ed-a-lighthearted-first-impression/