Modern Northern Writers

Classic Northern Literature

Modern Northern Writers

Alaska Writers Homestead
Web sites, tips and tools for Alaska writers, and articles about them.

Alf Bilton
Based in Whitehorse, Alf has posted some of his poetry and Northern cartoons.

Ellen Davignon
Ellen originally wrote her "Lives of Quiet Desperation" column for the Whitehorse Star, and published an autobiography The Cinnamon Mine.

Darrell Hookey
Based in Whitehorse, Yukon, Darrell specializes in articles about the Northern lifestyle and businesses

Mark Koepke
Based at Tagish, Yukon, Mark is a freelance writer for print, radio and other media - much of his work is on the site.

Farley Mowat
A photo, brief biography and bibliography of this Canadian nature writer, from the 'Canadian & World Encyclopedia'. All of Mowat's books can be found at ABEBooks.com.

Al Pope
Al's humorous, provocative column, Nordicity, appears weekly in the Yukon News, and he has published a novel, Bad Latitudes .

Elizabeth Robins and Alaska
This site by one of the editors of Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900, has several of Robins' 1900-1920 Alaska fiction and non-fiction pieces on-line.

Ansgar Walk
Author of books on the Arctic, its wildlife and the Inuit, in German and English.

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Classic Northern Literature

Alexander Kielland
A short biography of one of Norway's four top writers in the golden age of Norwegian arts, the late 1800s.

Kormak's Saga
The complete text. Originally written in Icelandic sometime between 1250 - 1300 A.D - author unknown.

P. Kropótkin
The complete text of Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1899).

Jack London
A lengthy analysis of Jack London's life as reflected in his works. There are links to full-text versions of many of his stories, as well as to other London-related sites.

John Muir
Many of Muirs works are posted here, including Stickeen, the Story of a Dog, Travels in Alaska and Cruise of the Corwin.

Project Runeberg
A massive, well-designed resource for Nordic literature. Mostly in Swedish, but extremely useful in any language.

The Saga of Grettir the Strong
The complete text. Originally written in Icelandic, sometime in the early 14th Century - author unknown.

Robert W. Service
Links to all the best resources and on-line texts from "The Bard of the Yukon."