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Born June 18, 1862 • New Jersey
Died March 26, 1942 (aged 79) • New York City • New York
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
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Frances Lockridge
American mystery writer
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Elizabeth Coatsworth
American author
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
American poet
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
Dominican-American author and educator
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
American author, photographer, and film director
Author Sandra Cisneros stands outdoors with arms crossed, wearing a patterned brown shawl, large earrings, turquoise bracelet, and pink ribbons in her hair.
Sandra Cisneros
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
American author

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