Pittsburgh Writers

Yes, Pittsburgh is a sports town. But it's also a literary town and has produced champions down through the years in every genre of writing.

This website will connect you to free and open access materials of many types on major authors from Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. No web junk here, only links to the best stuff. Of course the audience for this guide is students doing papers and projects, but also anyone who likes to learn about the people who write the books they read.

One resource drawn on here to provide the full text of many examples of the authors’ writings is Internet Archive. On Internet Archive, all works in the public domain can be freely read in their entirety. For works still under copyright, many can be read in their entirety, but to “borrow” and use them, you must first set up a free Internet Archive account. A link which will permit you to do this can be found in the upper right corner of the screen when you access Internet Archive. Links to the catalog of the Allegheny County Library Association and WorldCat are also given to help you find and access books by the authors included on this website if there are no works by them available through Internet Archive.

The pages of this website will lead you to open access journal articles, biographies from the Web, full text of many ebooks, open access dissertations, curated internet resources, high-quality videos, and any other interesting things on these Pittsburgh writers we can discover on the Web.

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"The Pittsburgh School" By Ed Simon, Belt Magazine

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