Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Children's Author
1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poet
2
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
3
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
4
Eric Bogosian, 72
Playwright
5
Karen M. McManus, 56
Novelist
6
Andie Mitchell, 40
Blogger
7
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
8
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
9
Sahara Rose, 34
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10
Victoria Aveyard, 35
Young Adult Author
11
EE Cummings (1894-1962)
12
Richard Phillips, 70
13
Kurt Busiek, 65
Comic Book Author
14
Max Brallier, 42
15
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
16
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
17
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
18
James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
19
WEB DuBois (1868-1963)
20
Piper Kerman, 56
Memoirist
21
Brad Falchuk, 54
Screenwriter
22
Max Blumenthal, 48
23
Madeline Miller, 47
24
Born in Massachusetts
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Carly Brooke, 35
25
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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Ram Dass (1931-2019)
27
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
28
Michael Mohan, 39
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Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
30
Shion Takeuchi, 37
31
George V. Higgins (1939-1999)
32
Susanna Kaysen, 77
33
Jane Aiken Hodge (1917-2009)
34
Jan Brett, 76
35
William Macdonald (1917-2007)
Religious Author
36
Jeff Bauman, 39
37
Jon Favreau, 44
Essayist
38
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
39
Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
40
Tracy K. Smith, 53
41
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
42
Guinevere Turner, 57
43
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
44
Jon Krakauer, 71
45
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
46
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
47
Elizabeth George Speare (1908-1994)
48
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