MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

LITERATURE

WRITERS

Poets Laureate

• Adichie, Chimamanda (1977-)
• Alvarez, Rafael (1958- ) Born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Baker, Russell W. (1925- )
• Barth, John S. (1930- )

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

Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Born in Baltimore, Maryland

McDermott, Alice (1954- )

McKinsey, Folger (1867-1950)

• 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

• 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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