February 1998
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AWARDWEB: A COLLECTION OF LITERARY AWARD INFORMATION
Looking for a prospect who won the Pulitzer or the Edgar Allen Poe Award? Laurie D. T. Mann pulls together many award pages available on the Web. After scrolling through the sci-fi and mystery awards, find links to Nobel, Pulitzer and award pages for Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK as well as for children's literature. For those with a morbid sense of humor, jump to the Dead People Server.
http://www.city-net.com/~lmann/awards/

(From Pamela J. Smith)

THE NOBEL PRIZE INTERNET ARCHIVE
Don't let this put you off -- the site opens with "Nobel News Flash -- 1997 Nobel Prizes Announced this Week!" Well, actually not; they were announced last October.

That aside, this site does provide accurate and up-to-date information on Nobel Laureates from 1901 (in some categories) to the present. You can choose from the categories of literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, or physiology and medicine, or use the handy search feature to pinpoint your prospect.

Brief biographical information -- dates of birth, education, current affiliation -- is provided, along with links to related books from Book Stacks, and other web sites about your laureate. You can choose to link directly to an Alta Vista search on the person's name, or add a link to the site yourself.

And, if you're interested in the flip side of great science, check out the IgNobel Prizes, which honor people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced."
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/top.html

DEAD PEOPLE SERVER
Warning: this site features a terribly morbid sense of humor and if you're easily offended by death jokes, you may want to stay away. But it does feature an excellent list of celebrities, with dates of birth and death, as well as providing information on those who are still living but have been rumored to have died, or who have just been out of the spotlight for a while. It's kept very up-to-date -- Carl Perkins, who passed away on January 19, is listed, as is Jack Lord, who died on the 21st. (And this was written on the 22nd!)
http://www.city-net.com/~lmann/dps/index.html

NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHORS
Visit this Web site, part of the Internet Public Library's reference, service, and browse by author, title, or tribe to find information on Native American authors. Find bibliographies, bibliographic info, and links to interviews, texts and tribal Web sites.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS ON THE INTERNET
The works of Native American artists -- and some biographical backgrounds, can be found at this site.
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/misc/indices/NAartists.html

(From Pam Patton)

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