Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Children's Author
1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poet
2
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
3
Eric Bogosian, 73
Playwright
4
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
5
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
Novelist
6
Karen M. McManus, 57
7
Piper Kerman, 56
Memoirist
8
WEB DuBois (1868-1963)
Non-Fiction Author
9
Shion Takeuchi, 37
Screenwriter
10
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
11
Victoria Aveyard, 35
Young Adult Author
12
Madeline Miller, 47
13
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
14
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
15
Tyler Chen, 37
16
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
Blogger
17
Susanna Kaysen, 77
18
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
19
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
20
Born in Massachusetts
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William Macdonald (1917-2007)
Religious Author
21
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
22
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
23
Max Brallier, 42
24
Brad Falchuk, 55
25
Jon Krakauer, 72
26
Jonathan Roberts, 70
27
Dave Eggers, 56
28
Andie Mitchell, 41
29
Guinevere Turner, 58
30
Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
31
Sahara Rose, 35
32
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
33
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
34
James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
35
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
36
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
37
Laura Lacquer, 38
38
Jeff Bauman, 40
39
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
40
Carly Brooke, 36
41
Ram Dass (1931-2019)
42
Richard Phillips, 71
43
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
44
Mark O'Brien (1949-1999)
45
Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
46
Nick Flynn, 66
47
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
48
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