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Born August 29, 1809 • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Died October 7, 1894 (aged 85) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1915)
Notable Works “Breakfast-Table” • “Old Ironsides” • “The Chambered Nautilus”
Movement / Style American Renaissance • Brahmin

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
Harte
Bret Harte
American writer
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”
Walt Whitman
American poet
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American author
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet
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Tillie Olsen
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
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
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.
Wendell Berry
American author
John Cheever
John Cheever
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
John Updike
John Updike
American author
American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher Charlotte Perkins Gilman, c. 1900
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer
Edwidge Danticat wearing a light-colored blouse and gold hoop earrings, looking slightly to the side, at the Cannes Film Festival jury photocall.
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian American author

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