LITERATURE
WRITERS
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- Poets Laureate
Sidney Lanier Memorial sculpture, by Hans Schuler (1941), The Johns Hopkins University, North Charles St. near University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2003. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
"Book Parade" at Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
The Baltimore Book Festival is held each September at Mount Vernon Place.
- Bell, Madison Smartt (1957-)
- Bozman, John Leeds (1757-1823)
- Briscoe, Connie (1952-)
- Born in Washington, DC
- Byron, Gilbert (1903-1991)
- Cain, James M. (1892-1977)
- Born in Annapolis, Maryland, July 1, 1892
- Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)
- Chappell, Helen
- Clancy, Tom (1947-)
- Clifton, Lucille (1936-)
- Collier, Michael (1953-)
- Cooke, Ebenezer (1667-1732)
- Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)
- Born near Easton, Maryland
- Duke, William (1757-1840)
- Finley, Martha (1828-1909)
- Died in Elkton, Maryland, January 29, 1909
- Flint, Roland (1934-2001)
- Fuqua, Jonathon Scott
- Gildea, William
- Gresham, William Lindsay (1909-1962)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1909
- Grimes, Martha
- Grossman, Allen (1932- )
- Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Hammett, Dashiell (1894-1961)
- Born on Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1894
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 24, 1825
- Died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1911
- Heck, Peter J.
- Hilton, David P. (1938-2005)
- Died in Chestertown, Maryland, April 7, 2005
- Hunter, Stephen (1946-)
- Jacobsen, Josephine (1908-2003)
- Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, August 19, 1908
- Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003
- Kaufman, Millard (1917-2009)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 12, 1917
- Died in Los Angeles, California, March 14, 2009
- Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 25, 1795
- Died in Newport, Rhode Island, August 18, 1870
- Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)
- Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880
- Died in New York City, February 6, 1965
- Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
- Born in Macon, Georgia, February 3, 1842
- Died in Lynn, North Carolina, September 7, 1881
- Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
- Lee, Barbara
- Lincoln, Christine (1966- )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Lippman, Laura (1959- )
- Malfi, Ronald Damien (1977-)
- Mangan, Kathy
- Massey, Sujata (1964- )
- Born in Sussex, England
- Matthews, Tonya Maria
- McGill, Alice
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- Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- McDermott, Alice (1954- )
- McKinsey, Folger (1867-1950)
Garden at H. L. Mencken House, 1524 Hollins St., Baltimore, Maryland, December 2005. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
- Miles, George Henry (1824-1871)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 31, 1824
- Died near Emmitsburg, Maryland, July 31, 1871
- Mooney, Robert (1955- )
- Born in Rochester, New York, 1955
- Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 20, 1910
- Died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1985
- Nash, Ogden (1902-1971)
- Born in Rye, New York, August 19, 1902
- Lived in Baltimore, Maryland
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 19, 1971
- Oden, Gloria Catherine (1923-)
- Born in Yonkers, New York, October 30, 1923
- O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, June 27, 1926
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- Parsons, Patty Leigh (1954-2002)
- Born in Salisbury, Maryland
- Pastan, Linda (1932-)
- Born in Bronx, New York, 1932
- Lived in Potomac, Maryland
- Pinckney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)
- Born in London, England, October 1, 1802
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11, 1828
- Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland
Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe and Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland, February 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
- Randall, Julia (1924-2005)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Died in North Bennington, Vermont, May 22, 2005
- Randolph, Innes (1837-1887)
- Born in Winchester, Virginia, October 25, 1837
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 1887
- Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935)
- Robson, Lucia St. Clair (1942-)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Salamanca, J. R. (1924- )
- Scharper, Diane
- Semmes, Raphael (1809-1877)
- Shapiro, Karl (1913-2000)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 10, 1913
- Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Spires, Elizabeth (1952-)
- Steinbach, Alice
- Talley, Marcia (1945-)
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Tilghman, Christopher
- Townsend, George Alfred (1841-1914)
- Tyler, Anne (1941- )
- Uris, Leon (1924-2003 )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 23, 1924
- Died in Shelter Island, New York, June 21, 2003
- Ward, Robert (1954-)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Warfield, Gallatin
- Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825)
- Welby, Amelia Coppuck (b. 1819)
- Born in St. Michaels, Maryland, 1819
- West, Chassie
- Whittemore, Reed (1919-)
- Wormser, Baron (1948-)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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