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Laurie Anderson - Multi-media artist (film, music, sculpture, interactive, etc) well known for her innovative stage shows

Dario Argento - Master of Italian horror cinema - cool site with content to match about this truly inventive and important auteur-film-maker. If you can read Italian, check out this lovely site supported by the maestro himself: il colore della paura e'Argento

Aristotle - Greek philosopher who is said to be the 'father of modern science' and was, for better or worse, the originator of 'Aristotolian thinking'... You can read and download a selection of his writings as e-texts here

Isaac Asimov - One of the 'grand-daddies' of SF... a clearly set-out, ecclectic collection of on-line Assimov resources and information - good starting point

Jane Austen - Remaining popular today... lots of gathered resources on this long established site

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Iain (M) Banks - SF/Fantasy writer and one of the freshest mainstream novelists to date

Official website of Clive Barker - writer, film-maker, painter and master of the fabulist genre

An introduction to the haiku and some info about Basho, master of this verse form

Samuel Beckett - Plenty of info here on the author and playwright

Jello Biafra - A powerful wielder of words, cultural terrorist, one-time candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, founder of Alternative Tentacles record label and ex-front man for Dead Kennedys

The International Brecht Society operate a useful site dedicated to Bertolt Brecht - lots of good research ready-done here about one of the most important influences on modern theatre...

Lovely-to-look-at official site of Dan Brown, with generous content and an interview with the author of bestselling code'n'conspiracy thrillers such as The DaVinci Code

Charles Bukowski - A master wordsmith brimming with honesty, humanity and humour...

William Blake - Excellent, searchable archive of Blake's excellent writings and illustrations

Kate Bush - Excellent, comprehensive website dedicated to the singer-songwriter with a towering talent and lyrics that lead the mind toward new discoveries

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Ramsey Campbell - Traditional-style spooky stories twisted with sex and psychological horror

Albert Camus Some heavy-duty philosophy from the writer who has influenced many, from Scott Walker to Charles Bukowski...

Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll - Creator of the Alice who finds adventures in Wonderland and through the looking glass...

Leonard Cohen has an official site at leonardcohen.com which provides news, info and an e-mail newsletter (site requires Flash)... or for more about the life and works of this great singer-songwriter, poet, novelist, go to the excellent fan-run resource site, The Leonard Cohen Files

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Remy Dean - Novelist and comentator on arts, music and media...

Len Deighton - Cold war intrigue... between nations, between people... war-torn Europe, swinging sixties Britain... Harry Palmer, super-spy, cool cook... Deighton is one of the UK's finest storytellers

Philip K Dick - Extensive site dedicated to the SF pioneer and visionary

Johnny Dowd - Inventive musician and lyrical blues storyteller

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Offcial site of his literary estate and plenty of info about Shelock Holmes

Daphne Du Maurier - Novelist and master of the short story

Authors: E

Umberto Eco - Philosopher, academic and literary heavyweight... author of Foucault's Pendulum, The Name Of the Rose and more

Mary Ann Evans, writing as George Eliot, broke new ground in Victorian fiction and introduced conventions of characterisation that are still evident in modern literature

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William Faulkner - Huge academic site dedicated to one of the USA's greatest writers

Derek Dick, better known as Fish, the singer-songwriter-minstrel-poet...

Gavin Friday - Performer and artist - one of Ireland's foremost creatives

Mark Frost - novelist responsible for the marvellous List Of Seven and co-writer of Twin Peaks

John Foxx - the pioneering and gifted musician-poet who defined 'New Romanticism' in the late 1970s and went on to be a multi-media artist, now as relevant as ever... visit his official 'Metamatic' website or read his 'Quiet Man' blog

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William Gibson - The first author to be called 'cyberpunk'...

Michael Gira and s w a n s - Writer and musician with power, intensity and integrity

Dave Graney - Another true poet hiding in rock 'n' roll

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Dashiell Hammett - Author of some classic crime-noir novels such as The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse... and creator of hard-boiled-detective-icon, Sam Spade

Werner Herzog - The dedicated and intense German auteur film-maker

Bill Hicks - Very angry, very funny and very true

An in-depth meta-essay about the ideas of Aldus Huxley with its focus on his classic novel, Brave New World, plus some related links

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Henrik Ibsen - highly influential playwright, both Realist and Romantic, whose dramas are still widely performed ...also a poet and painter

John Irving - USA novelist responsible for The Ciderhouse Rules, Hotel New Hampshire and The World Accoring To Garp (all adapted to films) and many others...

Washington Irving - Author of early American Gothic tales, including The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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Clive James - Really entertaining and comprehensive official site of this wise and witty author, broadcaster, presenter... nice design too

Henry James - Good starting point for all things Henry James, plus a very generous selection of downloadable e-texts of his works. Or you could just go for the rather effective film adaptation The Innocents (based on The Turn Of The Screw) which, in turn, inspired the Kate Bush song, The Infant Kiss from the classic album Never Forever

M R James - Website listing his works of classic, understated yet often 'haunting' stories of the supernatural

James Joyce - The Irish literary prankster: theres a good academic Joyce resources site hosted by Ohio State University and there is some useful information at the website for Dublin's James Joyce Centre

Authors: K

Stephen King - official site for the best-selling author of imaginative American fiction, plenty here on a well-maintained site

Dean R Koontz - prolific author of best-selling 'slipstream' fiction that is often transmediated to the screen... his official site

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Joe R Lansdale - inventive, highly eloquent, though often feversishly delirous - one of the writers who can never be boring - author of crime fiction such as Mucho Mojo and other stories featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, and of short fiction including Bubba Ho-Tep, adapted into the outrageous film of the same name. Some short stories are available free at his website.

Stephen Laws - leading UK proponent of the supernatural horror novel

Timothy Leary - One of the twentieth century's most important thinkers - a future saint - Leary dot com is also... interesting...

Stanislaw Lem - Soviet author (of Solaris and others)

Gordon Lightfoot - One of the few true poets

Lydia Lunch - Confrontationalist multi-media creator - a first in many fields

David Lynch - in the future, he will be seen as one of this era's most important artists, so check out the official webiste of the multi-faceted creative, world peace activist, eductional reformist, 'mad genius' and coffee salesman...

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Christopher Marlowe - The renaissance playwright, spy, and possibly (but not really) the author of some plays claimed by Shakespeare(!?)

Graham Masterton - Prolific producer of thrills and chills, mainly in the imaginative horror genre and a true master(ton) of the form... official site with good layout and generous content

Cormac McCarthy - One of the USA's most noteworthy contemporary writers

Frank Miller - Writer-creator of striking comics, such as the Sin City series...

Henry Miller - Site dedicated to the influencial and inspirational author, artist and 'father of the beats' with good content and a style true to Miller's exuberance and positivity

Momus (aka Nicholas Currie) - wit and wisdom, words and 'music'... and his record label Analog Baroque

For a pretty cool and comprehensive Michael Moorcock website go to Multiverse for lots of info and resources related to the prolific pulp SF author - who also worked with Hawkwind...

Alan Moore - Comic writer, novelist, occultist(?) - regularly up-dated and extensive fan site

Michael Moore - Journalist, documentary film-maker and TV personality who uses sharp wit and humour as tools of social change in a crusade against corporate crime and politic-powered injustice

Authors: N

Anais Nin - Site with nice design and content

Larry Niven - Multi-award winning, highly readable, genre-defining, SF writer - creator of Ringworld and many other 'Known Space' novels... plenty on this fan-run site

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George Orwell - Melding politics with creative writing in such works as 1984, Animal Farm, The Road To Wigan Pier...

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Robert Pirsig - The Quality of Truth and the Truth about Quality can be sought through 'Zen And The Art Of Motorcyle Maintenance'

Edgar Allan Poe - Poe resource site with many links related to the imaginative, important and inventive writer of classic dark fiction

Philip Pullman - his official website with lots of information about his books, films of his books, interviews, and generous free content including PDFs of articles

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Joe Quesada - writer of comics and Editor in Chief at Marvel

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - French philosopher (of Swiss origin) who was a huge influence on both Enlightenment and Romantic ideology and an important commentator on educational issues has an extensive entry at the Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, and also plenty of info and resources at the Rousseau Association

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William Shakespeare - Good site dedicated to 'The Bard', with extensive links to on-line resources. An excellent starting point for finding all things Shakespearian... And this site offers the Complete Works on-line and downloadable!

Tom Sniegoski - Novelist and imaginative writer of graphic novels, responsible for re-vamping the Vampirella comic series and contributing to Buffy, The Vampire Slayer novelisations.

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Serj Tankian - Politicised poetry and words from visionary front man of power-charged rock outfit System Of A Down

Dylan Thomas - Information and resources related to the life and word-craft of the famous Welsh drinker

The Tolkien Society website with loads of Tolkien features and facilities. There is also a very thorough fan page with a huge list of other web pages and on-line resources relating to J R R Tolkien and his works...