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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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2
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3
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4
Eric Bogosian, 72
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5
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
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6
WEB DuBois (1868-1963)
Non-Fiction Author
7
Karen M. McManus, 56
8
Piper Kerman, 55
Memoirist
9
Sahara Rose, 34
10
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
11
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
Blogger
12
Brad Falchuk, 54
Screenwriter
13
Andie Mitchell, 40
14
Madeline Miller, 46
15
Victoria Aveyard, 34
Young Adult Author
16
Richard Phillips, 70
17
Guinevere Turner, 57
18
James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
19
Lillie Marshall, 43
20
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
21
Susanna Kaysen, 76
22
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
23
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
24
Born in Massachusetts
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
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Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
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Andrea Barrett, 70
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William Macdonald (1917-2007)
Religious Author
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Jon Favreau, 44
Essayist
30
Janet Tashjian, 68
31
Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
32
Carly Brooke, 35
33
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
34
EE Cummings (1894-1962)
35
Jared Diamond, 87
36
Ram Dass (1931-2019)
37
Max Blumenthal, 47
38
Charlie Pierce, 71
39
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
40
Max Brallier, 41
41
Jeff Bauman, 39
42
Jan Brett, 75
43
Shion Takeuchi, 36
44
Dorothy West (1907-1998)
45
Thomas Woods, 52
46
Kurt Busiek, 64
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
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