List of People From Pennsylvania - Authors and Playwrights

Authors and Playwrights

• Edward Abbey—Indiana
• Louisa May Alcott—Germantown
• Lloyd Alexander—Philadelphia
• Darryl Ponicsan- author and screenwriter - Shenandoah
• Poul Anderson—Bristol
• Janet Asimov—Ashland
• Donald Barthelme—Philadelphia
• John Batchelor—Bryn Mawr / Lower Merion Township
• Ben Bova—Philadelphia
• Pearl S. Buck—Perkasie
• Charles Brockden Brown—Philadelphia
• Bebe Moore Campbell—Philadelphia
• Rachel Carson—Springdale
• Stephen Chbosky—Pittsburgh
• Marc Connelly—McKeesport
• Margaret Deland—Allegheny
• Annie Dillard—Pittsburgh
• Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)—Bethlehem
• Tristan Egolf—Lancaster
• David Fulmer—Northumberland
• Todd Gallagher—Greensburg
• Walter B. Gibson—Philadelphia
• Kristin Hunter—Philadelphia
• Dean Koontz—Everett
• John D. MacDonald—Sharon
• Henry Meyer—Centre County
• James A. Michener—Doylestown
• James Morrow—Philadelphia
• John O'Hara—Pottsville
• Ralph Peters—Pottsville / Schuylkill Haven
• Robert W. Peterson—Warren
• Ezra Pound—Wyncote
• Conrad Richter—Pine Grove
• Mary Rinehart—Pittsburgh
• Lisa Scottoline—Philadelphia
• Sara Shepard—Downingtown
• Martin Cruz Smith—Reading
• Jerry Spinelli—Norristown
• Jerry Stahl—Pittsburgh
• Gertrude Stein—Allegheny
• Gerald Stern—Pittsburgh
• Wallace Stevens—Reading
• Ida Tarbell—Titusville
• John Updike—Reading
• Lauren Weisberger—Allentown
• John Edgar Wideman—Pittsburgh
• Marianne Wiggins—Lancaster
• August Wilson—Pittsburgh
• Owen Wister—Philadelphia
• Calvin Ziegler—Rebersburg
• Eugene Louer-Harrisburg