MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

LITERATURE

WRITERS

Poets Laureate

• 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

  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- )

  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)

  Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003.

  Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)

  Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880

  Died in New York City, February 6, 1965

  Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)

  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- )

  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

  Mooney, Robert (1955- )

  Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  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-)

  O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

• Parsons, Patty Leigh (1954-2002)
  Born in Salisbury, Maryland

  Pastan, Linda (1932-)

  Born in New York City, 1932

  Lived in Potomac, Maryland

  Pinckney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)

  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)

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland

  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

  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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