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