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
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