List of People From Massachusetts - Literature

Literature

  • Herbert Baxter Adams, educator, historian
  • Louisa May Alcott, author, (Concord, Little Women)
  • Horatio Alger, Jr., author
  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, author (Concord, In the forests of the night, Demon in my View)
  • Mike Barnicle, journalist
  • Peter Beinart, journalist (Cambridge)
  • Edward Bellamy, author and socialist
  • Elizabeth Bishop, poet (Worcester)
  • Anne Bradstreet, poet
  • Augusten Burroughs (Amherst, Running with Scissors)
  • Robert Ellis Cahill, folklorist, author (Salem, some three dozen books on New England History and Lore)
  • Robert Cormier, author, columnist (Leominster)
  • Bernard Cornwell, (Chatham, created Richard Sharpe (fictional character))
  • William Cullen Bryant, poet
  • e.e. cummings, poet (Cambridge)
  • Stephen Daye, printer
  • Emily Dickinson, poet (Amherst)
  • E. J. Dionne, liberal op-ed columnist for The Washington Post (Boston)
  • W. E. B. Du Bois, author, editor, historian (Great Barrington, The Souls of Black Folk)
  • Andre Dubus III, author
  • Dave Eggers, author
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet (Concord, Nature, The Transcendentalist)
  • Robert Frost, poet (Lawrence)
  • Nicholas Gage, writer and journalist (Worcester)
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
  • Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, author, poet and illustrator (Springfield)
  • George Gilder, author, intellectual (Tyringham)
  • Edward Gorey, author and illustrator
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (Salem, The Scarlet Letter)
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist (Cambridge)
  • Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
  • Sebastian Junger, author, journalist
  • Jack Kerouac, author (Lowell, On the Road)
  • Peter King, sportswriter, author
  • Jonathan Kozol, author, educator, activist
  • Stanley Kunitz, poet (Worcester, Poet Laureate of the United States)
  • Peter Laird, Comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Timothy Leary, psychologist, author (Springfield, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)
  • Dennis Lehane, author
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Portland, ME, 1807 – Cambridge, MA, 1882), author
  • James Russell Lowell, poet (Fireside Poets)
  • Michael Patrick MacDonald, author, activist (South Boston, All Souls)
  • William Manchester, author and biographer
  • Stephen McCauley, (Woburn, The Object of My Affection)
  • Robin Moore, author (Boston, The Green Berets)
  • Marvin Olasky, author, editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine
  • Charles Olson, poet (Worcester)
  • Thomas Paine, (Common Sense)
  • Daniel Pipes, author (Boston, Cambridge, In the Path of God)
  • Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist (Boston, The Bell Jar)
  • Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet (Boston, "The Raven", "The Fall of the House of Usher")
  • Douglas Preston, author (Cambridge, The Book of the Dead)
  • R.A. Salvatore, author (Leominster)
  • George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist (Boston, The Life of Reason)
  • Daniel Scott (writer), author (Braintree, Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount)
  • Anne Sexton, poet (Newton)
  • Mark Shasha, author
  • Dan Shaughnessy, sports writer (Groton)
  • Kyle Smith, film critic, novelist, essayist
  • Jeff Stein, columnist
  • Michelle Tea, (Chelsea, Rent Girl)
  • Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, author (Concord, Walden)
  • John Updike (Reading, Pa, 1932 – Danvers, MA, 2009)
  • Edith Wharton, author
  • Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author, American historian (North Andover)
  • John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
  • Jane Yolen, author

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