Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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Henry Adams (1838-1918)
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7
Andie Mitchell, 40
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Piper Kerman, 55
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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
10
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
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Sahara Rose, 34
12
Karen M. McManus, 55
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Madeline Miller, 46
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Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
15
Victoria Aveyard, 34
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Richard Phillips, 69
17
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
19
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
20
Brad Falchuk, 54
Screenwriter
21
Guinevere Turner, 56
22
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
24
Born in Massachusetts
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Jan Brett, 75
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29
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
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Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
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Jon Krakauer, 71
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Tracy K. Smith, 53
33
Kurt Busiek, 64
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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William Macdonald (1917-2007)
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Janet Tashjian, 68
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Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)
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Annie Baker, 43
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EE Cummings (1894-1962)
40
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Max Brallier, 41
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Erica Eckman, 39
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Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
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Julia Glass, 69
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Joe Keenan, 66
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Richard Preston, 70
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