To access the fulltext on this site you will need to ask a Reference librarian to enter a password for you at a workstation in the Ref Dept. at Van Pelt. Literature Online Fulltext, poetry, prose, fully searchable. Large sets of fulltext works by British and American authors. Unfortuntely very little contemporary literature is there in fulltext. It does, however, also contain some biographical information and secondary sources for contemporary writers.
Many newspapers now have their own web sites with searchable archives.
This is not always easy. Nevertheless I recommend you consult the following reference sources which do have entires on some of the authors in this course. Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed. Susan Windisch Brown, editor. Gale Research Co., 1982- 8 vols plus 16 vols suppl.