Rhode Island Literary Sources The Rhode Island Literary Map is developed with the generous cooperation of C.D. Wright; the staff of Bookland of Westerly; CLAN Libraries of Rhode
Island; the Rhode Island Council for the Arts; the Community Writers Association; the Providence Journal Archives; and the sources below.
1. Rhode Island Women Authors. Westerly Public Library, Broad Street, Westerly, RI 02891. Twenty-four authors and their works, with call numbers. Provided in cooperation with the Westerly Public
Library Reserve Staff. 2. Schneider, Carolyn M., ed. A Bibliography of Selected Contemporary Rhode Island Authors with Annotations and Bibliographical. Providence: Providence Public Library, 150
Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903, 1983. Data compiled by Jeanne L. Richardson, RI Collection Librarian. Reference Section call number: Ref.920.0745 B. Brief biographies of 93 20th
century Rhode Island authors. Provided in cooperation of North Kingstown Public Library Reserve Staff. 3. Set in...Rhode Island. Selected 20th Century Fiction.
Warwick Public Library, 195 Buttonwoods, Warwick, RI 02889. Fifty-eight book titles set in RI, listed by town, area, author, publishing date, and one line synopsis of works.
4. Partial List of Authors Associated with Rhode Island. Reference Section, North Kingstown Public Library, North Kingstown, RI 02852. A listing of 248 authors who lived, summered, or were frequent
visitors. List partially identifies works, dates, and relationships to RI. Includes personal selection by staff: Brown, Watkins, Hood, Keuci, Renehan, Casey, Wilder, Farrelly, Wolff, Atten, and Squire. Provided in
cooperation with the North Kingstown Public Library Reserve Staff. 5. Rhode Island Artist Directory. Literature Artists in Rhode Island. A listing of 26 authors, publishers, and author organizations
with limited biographical information. Includes: Amore, Barnes, Bermuda, Brown, Carla, Cooper, Dinolfo, Hemenway, Johnson, Krasner, Martindale, Pallotta, Ramey, Ray, Sasso Sokenu, Stevens, Thurston, and Williams. Provided
in cooperation with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
By Susan Huetteman
http://www.risca.state.ri.us/artist_directory/literature.asp
6. Theatre Artists in Rhode Island. Alphabetical listing of 68 writers, storytellers and theater companies in RI as of 9/22/99.
http://www.risca.state.ri.us/artist_directory/literature.asp
7. Wright, C.D. A Reader's Map of Rhode Island
by C. D. Wright. RI: Lost Rhodes Publishers, 1999. A large framable poster identifying nearly 200 RI authors, past and present. Highly researched and well-documented listing. Identifies author, dates, RI
connection, major works and other pertinent information. Written by the current Poet Laureate of Rhode Island and Brown University Professor. Presented through the cooperation of C. D. Wright. 8. Riggs, Doug, ed. Providence Journal Archives.
"Rhody's Century of Books and Authors". RI Providence Journal, 5-23-99. The Providence Journal books editor's essay is an overview with selected biographies and brief listing.
Reprint provided in cooperation with the Providence Journal Archives.
9. Bookland.
Private bookseller, Franklin Shopping Plaza, Westerly, RI 02891. Staff search and identification of Rhode Island authors. Special assistance by Maureen, Andy, and Missy. 10. LookSmart Live!
Search provided Rhode Island Authors, Author Organizations and their URLs. Assistance provided by Rhiannon, LookSmart Editor, 9/22/99.
http://www.communitywriters.org
http://www.looksmart.com
11. Undocumented recommendations of authors associated with Rhode Island. A random collection by RI
readers, librarians, and booksellers: Triedman, Mitchard, Overy, Van Allsburg, Lovecraft, Cronauer, Hofp, McCourt, Pfarier, Carter, Bosquet, Kirker, Severance, Avi, Wiitala, Mitchell, White, and LaFarge.
12. Rhode Island Children's Authors and Illustrators: A sampling of titles by talented people writing and illustrating books for young people in Rhode Island. West Warwick Library, March 1998. Fifteen RI authors and
illustrators, with list of books and micro-biography. Includes: Alley, Avi, Babbitt, Begin, Corbett, Brennan, Denise, Lisker, McNulty, Landon, Macaulay (with link to Macaulay site), Parker, Scribner, Smith, Taylor-Lisle,
Van Allsburg. Provided in cooperation with the North Kingstown Public Library. 13. Rhode Island Screenwriters. Scott Anderson identifies Wolpaw and Johnson, and recommends other screenwriting sites.
14. Telnet. Rhode Island CLAN Internet search connection to all public libraries via Internet.
Search identified Rhode Island authors and assisted in resolving discrepancies. September 8-November 12, 1999. 15. LookSmart search for Rhode Island Authors. Jell Allen dance series, book browser site
for Gately and Briody mysteries, and World Fantasy Convention 1999 information.
16. Edward Renehan Jr. site for the historian and biographer.17. G. Wayne Miller
website home page. Investigative journalism at its most accessible. Excellent and generous presentation of his works.
http://www.gwaynemiller.com
18. Mark Binder homepage.
http://www.markbinder.com/tableofcontents/index.htm
19. Rhode Island Authors identified by the NKPL Reference Staff, North Kingstown Public Library, 100 Boone, North Kingstown, RI 02852. 20. Google! NetscapeNetcenter. Search
results: Julia Ward Howe; Henry James; William James; Samuel Eliot Morison.
21. Excite
search for Rhode Island Authors. Sites include Festival of Children's, Books & Authors, Mellville House in Newport, and Mark Binder.
http://search.excite.com
22. Newport Notables home page. Brief biographies of Victorian Newport's literary elite.
http://www.redwood1747.org/notables/howe_j.htm
23. Levey, Judith S. and Greenhall, Agnes, ed. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. NY: Avon Books, 1983. General reference book, with biographies and selection of works
of specific authors. Third edition has only listing found for Henry Van Dyke (NY: Columbia University Press, 1966). 24. RI Bestlinx to Authors. Search for Renehan, Miller and Sharp.
25. Find a Grave. Thirty-one gravesites and locations of RI leaders and notables, including Cheers
coach Nicholas Colasanto, Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence, father of American education Horace Mann, U.S. Naval Commodore Matthew Perry, and founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams, and Ballouk, Foss, Lovecraft, and Mann.
http://www.findagrave.com/state/42.html
26. Rhode Island On-Line Public Kiosk. RI History.
http://www.state.ri.us
27.
Williamson, J. N., ed. How To Write Tales Of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1987. Includes Melville, Poe, and
Lovecraft information. (242 pages) 28. Caldecott Award winners list Chris Van Allsburg and David Macaulay:
Author spotlight on Van Allsburg:
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/cva/index.html
29. Martinez, Marta V., ed. Rhode Island History. A Rhode Island Historical Society
Publication, Vol. 56, No. 4., 1998. Reissue of publication of State of Rhode Island Plantations, published by Rhode Island Tercentenary Committee, 1936. Rhode Island Boundaries, 1636-1936, with
introduction by William McKenzie Woodward. Progression of maps and history. (126 pages) 30. Rhode Island Historical Society, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI 02906. Conversations and Web
search. Site includes bibliography, history, Native American, shape of RI history, women, and authors collections, since 1822. Site updated 10-10-99 by Bill Greene. Special staff assistance for the development of a
RI literary map provided by: Monica Bessette, Meredith Sorozan, and Al Clyberg. Staff favorite authors include: Peter Farrely, John Land, Geoffrey Wolff, H.P. Lovecraft, Roland Hazard, and Roger Williams.
31. Sharp, Eleyne Austen. Community Writers of Newport founder site. Note correct spelling of her name.
http://www.communitywriters.org
32. The Providence Journal. Authors of or identified in articles and reviews in the newspaper. Listing
below identifies RI author and source:
Blight, James G. "Critical oral history" fills in details of Vietnam War. 9-22-99, B1,4. Chandler, Tom. "Bryant College" faculty appointments. Publication date unknown, 1999. Conley, Patrick T. "R.I. historian adds senior javelin award to prestigious resume." 11-4-99, B5. Davis, Marion. "Author [James G. Blight]: 'Critical oral history' fills in details of
Vietnam War". 9-22-99, B1. D'Evelyn, Tom. "Donovan's poems of spider webs and changing tires." 10-3-99, K-9. Donovan, Karen. D'Evelyn, Tom, "Donovan's poems of spider webs and
changing tires." New book, Fugitive Red, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, 64 pages. Dunkleman, Mark (review), 10-10-99, E9. Farrelley,
Bobby and Peter. "Outside Providence: Did marketing drop the ball?" 10-17-99,K1,4;
"After the shooting," Creating comedy is reel work for Farrelleys." 11-99, p.1, 8.