Alger, Horatio (Chelsea)
The 19th century author of "rags to riches" books
Famous Writers from Massachusetts
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Banks, Russell (Newton)
Author of The Sweet Hereafter -
Benchley, Robert (Worcester)
1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist -
Bishop, Elizabeth (Worcester)
Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50 -
Bulfinch, Thomas (Newton)
The author of Bulfinch's Mythology -
Cummings, E. E. (Cambridge)
The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals -
Dass, Ram (Boston)
The LSD guy from the 1960s who wrote 'Be Here Now' -
Dickinson, Emily (Amherst)
The poet called "The Belle of Amherst" -
Du Bois, W.E.B. (Great Barrington)
Author of The Souls of Black Folk -
Franklin, Benjamin (Boston)
The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac -
Fuller, Margaret (Cambridge)
The feminist who wrote 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' -
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Salem)
The author of The Scarlet Letter -
Hoffman, Abbie (Worcester)
The yippie who wrote Steal This Book -
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (Cambridge)
Author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table -
Kerouac, Jack (Lowell)
Beat-era author of On The Road -
Kunitz, Stanley (Worcester)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01 -
Leary, Timothy (Springfield)
The drug-taking professor who said "Turn on, tune in, drop out" -
Lowell, Robert (Boston)
The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies -
O'Brien, Conan (Brookline)
Host of The Tonight Show, 2009-2010 -
Plath, Sylvia (Jamaica Plain)
Poet and author of The Bell Jar -
Poe, Edgar Allan (Boston)
The author of the poem "The Raven" -
Sexton, Anne (Newton)
Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s -
Smith, Tracy K. (Falmouth)
U.S. Poet Laureate named in 2017 -
Thoreau, Henry David (Concord)
Author of Walden