Michigan Authors and Literature

The following sources will assist in locating information about Michigan authors and literature. Many of these sources will help by providing the names of authors who were born or have lived in Michigan. Included in this list are also titles of works set in Michigan and by Michigan authors.

Web Resources

Michigan Authors & Illustrator 
       URL:   http://www.hal.state.mi.us/authors
        This continually updated database contains information about authors and illustrators who were born in, live in, or have written about Michigan. Each entry includes biographical information and lists of works by or about the person.

KidsBookLink.org
       URL:  http://www.kidsbooklink.org/
         Sponsored by the SCBWI-Michigan, one of seventy active chapters of the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators, biographical and booking information about children's authors from Michigan is provided.

Contemporary Authors
      URL:   http://www.nmc.edu/library/articles/subject.html#Communications
         Contemporary Authors is a full text database available from the Osterlin Library Find Articles Online page under the Communications heading. Not limited to Michigan authors, it provides access to current biographical and bibliographical data on significant modern authors. To access: from the Osterlin homepage, select Find Articles Online then Article Databases by Subject then Contemporary Authors.

Michigan Books
       URL:  http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=468&pathid=1211
         Provided by MEL (Michigan eLibrary) this site provides links to the Michigan Notable Books lists, Michigan authors and illustrators and books on Michigan history.

Michigan Poetry

Title: Contemporary Michigan poetry : poems from the third coast
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 C66 1988 - Stacks

Title: Forty salutes to Michigan poets : 40th anniversary anthology of the Poetry Society of Michigan
     Location:  PS 584 .F6 - Stacks

Title:  The Lansing Poetry Club : the first 50 years : a history and an anthology, 1938-1988
     Location:  PS 572 .L2 L34 1988 - Stacks

Title:  Celebrations
     Location:  PS 3573 .E39 C45 1983 - Stacks

Title:  New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry
     Location:  PS 571 M5 N49 2000 - Stacks

Title:  Ten Michigan Poets
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 G73 - Stacks

Title:  The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 T5 - Stacks

   Resources about Michigan Authors and Literature

Title:  Michigan in the novel, 1816-1996 : an annotated bibliography
     Location:  REF PS 283.M5 B4 1998 - Reference

Title:  From frontier folk to factory smoke : Michigan's first century of historical fiction
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 F76 1987 - Stacks

Title:   A Directory of American poets and fiction writers
     Location:  REF PS 129 .D55 2003-2004 - Reference

Title:  Jim Harrison
     Location:  PS 3558 .A67 Z87 1996 - Stacks

Title:   Literary Michigan : a sense of place, a sense of time
     Location:  REF PS 283 .M5 L57 - Reference

Title:  Michigan in Literature
     Location:  REF PS 283 .M5 A5 1992 - Reference

Title:  Michigan poets, with supplement to Michigan authors, 1960
     Location: PS 283 .M5 H53 - Stacks

Title: Our Michigan Heritage.
     Location: PS 283 .M5 G5 1955 - Stacks

Title:  The Writers Directory
     Location: REF PS 1 .W73 - Reference

Michigan Fiction and Memoirs

Title: Voices of Michigan : an anthology of Michigan authors, volume III
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 V65 - Stacks

Title:  Peninsula: Essays and Memoir from Michigan
     Location:  PS 571 M5 P46 2000 - Stacks

Title:  Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton
     Location:  E 175.5 .C28 A37 - Stacks

Title:  The last farmer : an American memoir by Howard Kohn
     Location:  S 417 .K627 K64 1988 - Stacks

Title: Off to the side: a memoir by Jim Harrison
     Location: PS 3558 .A67 Z465 2002 - Stacks

Title:  If I don't six by Elwood Reid
     Location:  PS 3568 .E47637 I4 1998 - Stacks

Title: Anatomy of a murder by Robert Traver
     Location:  PS 3570 .R339 A83 1983 - Stacks

Title:  The yarn of the mitten by Jessop Lewis
     Location:  PS 3560 .E77 Y37 1998 - Stacks

Title:  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
     Location:  PS 3563 .O8749 .S6 1987 - Stacks

Title:  Grass fires : stories by Dan Gerber
     Location:  PS 3557 .E66 G7 1987 - Stacks

Title:  Indian affairs : a novel by Larry Woiwode
     Location:  PS 3573 .O4 I53 1992 - Stacks

Title:  From Indian legends to the modern book-shelf : an anthology of prose and verse by Michigan authors prepared especially for the youth of the state
     Location:  PS 571 .M5 M7 - Stacks

Title:  The tarnished eye by Judith Guest
     Location:  PS 3557 .U345 T37 2004 - Stacks

Title:  Crack at dusk, crook of dawn : a novel of discovery by Priscilla Cogan
     Location:  PS 3553 .O4152 C73 2000 - Stacks

Title:  The summer he didn't die by Jim Harrison
     Location:  PS 3558 .A67 S77 2005 - Stacks

Title:  True north : a novel by Jim Harrison
     Location:  PS 3558 .A67 T78 2004 - Stacks

Title:  Our sometime sister : a novel by Norah Labiner
     Location:  PS 3562 .A2328 O92 1998 - Stacks

Title:  The echoes of L'Arbre Croche by Donald Johnston
     Location:  PS 3560 .O3875 E27 1996 - Stacks

Title:  The white squaw; a sequel to North of Saginaw Bay by Ernest Petersen
     Location:  PS 3531 .E74 W47 1954 - Stacks

Title:  Dewey defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
     Location:  PS 3563 .A43157 D48 1998 - Stacks

Title:  The invasion : a narrative of events concerning the Johnston family of St. Mary's by Janet Lewis
     Location:  PS 3523 .E866 I6 1932 - Stacks

Title:  Criss Cross by Lynne Perkins
     Location:  PZ 7 .P4313 CR 2005 - Stacks

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