Arts and Literature
- Russell Banks
- Samuel Bartlett – native
- Amy Beach – native
- Philip Booth
- Jon Brooks – native
- Dan Brown – native
- Bill Bryson – resident, 1995–2003
- Lisa Carver
- Charles Carleton Coffin
- Edward Estlin Cummings
- Joseph Dennie
- Tomie dePaola
- Richard Eberhart
- Ron Fortier
- Daniel Chester French – native
- Robert Frost
- Horace Greeley – native
- Donald Hall
- Dan Hurlin – native
- John Irving – native
- Elizabeth Orton Jones
- Jane Kenyon
- Heather King
- Maxine Kumin
- Dudley Leavitt
- Alan Lelchuk
- Edward MacDowell
- Joyce Maynard
- Jim McDermott
- Larkin Goldsmith Mead – native
- Grace Metalious
- P.J. O'Rourke
- John Perkins – native
- Jodi Picoult
- J. D. Salinger – lived in Cornish, New Hampshire for several decades
- Charles Simic
- Armstrong Sperry – resident 1941–1976
- Mark Steyn
- Harriet E. Wilson
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