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Also Known As Maria del Occidente • Mary Abigail Gowen Brooks
Born 1794? • Medford • Massachusetts
Died November 11, 1845 • Matanzas • Cuba
Notable Works “Zóphiël: or, The Bride of Seven”
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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter
Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
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
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
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
Thomas Merton, 1959
Thomas Merton
American writer
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan
American priest and poet
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
American writer
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese-American author

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