Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Children's Author
1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poet
2
Eric Bogosian, 73
Playwright
3
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
4
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
5
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Novelist
6
Victoria Aveyard, 36
Young Adult Author
7
Karen M. McManus, 57
8
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
9
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
10
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
11
Kurt Busiek, 66
Comic Book Author
12
William Macdonald (1917-2007)
Religious Author
13
Richard Phillips, 71
Non-Fiction Author
14
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
15
Piper Kerman, 56
Memoirist
16
Jonathan Roberts, 70
Screenwriter
17
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
18
Tyler Chen, 37
19
WEB DuBois (1868-1963)
20
Born in Massachusetts
Most Popular Authors
Jared Diamond, 89
21
Shion Takeuchi, 38
22
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
Blogger
23
Max Blumenthal, 48
24
William Monahan, 65
25
Madeline Miller, 48
26
Christiana Morgan (1897-1967)
27
Lillie Marshall, 44
28
Benjamin Parrillo, 55
29
Brad Falchuk, 55
30
Guinevere Turner, 58
31
Jessica Ward, 57
32
Andie Mitchell, 41
33
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
34
Lydia Davis, 79
35
Jan Brett, 76
36
EE Cummings (1894-1962)
37
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
38
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
39
Max Brallier, 43
40
James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
41
Jon Krakauer, 72
42
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
43
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
44
Susanna Kaysen, 77
45
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
46
Dorothy West (1907-1998)
47
Jeff Bauman, 40
48
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