Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Children's Author
1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poet
2
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
3
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
4
Eric Bogosian, 72
Playwright
5
Madeline Miller, 46
Novelist
6
WEB DuBois (1868-1963)
Non-Fiction Author
7
Piper Kerman, 55
Memoirist
8
Esther Earl (1994-2010)
Blogger
9
Karen M. McManus, 56
10
Andie Mitchell, 40
11
Victoria Aveyard, 34
Young Adult Author
12
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
13
Jeff Bauman, 39
14
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
15
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
16
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
17
Brad Falchuk, 54
Screenwriter
18
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
19
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
20
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
21
Sahara Rose, 34
22
Guinevere Turner, 57
23
Jo Yee, 44
24
Born in Massachusetts
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Richard Phillips, 70
25
Susanna Kaysen, 76
26
William Macdonald (1917-2007)
Religious Author
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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
28
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
29
Jon Favreau, 44
Essayist
30
Shion Takeuchi, 36
31
Max Brallier, 41
32
Carly Brooke, 35
33
Jared Diamond, 87
34
Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
35
Lillie Marshall, 43
36
Sarah Smith, 77
37
Will Durant (1885-1981)
38
Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
39
EE Cummings (1894-1962)
40
Jan Brett, 75
41
Lydia Davis, 78
42
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
43
Thomas Lux (1946-2017)
44
Dorothy Davenport (1895-1977)
45
Andrea Barrett, 70
46
Kurt Busiek, 64
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47
Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)
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