MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

LITERATURE

WRITERS

Poets Laureate

• Adichie, Chimamanda (1977-)
• Alvarez, Rafael (1958- )
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Baker, Russell W. (1925- )

Barth, John S. (1930- )

Bell, Madison Smartt (1957-)

Bozman, John Leeds (1757-1823)

• Briscoe, Connie (1952-)
  
  Born in Washington, DC

  Brown, Zenith Jones

  see: Ford, Leslie

  Byron, Gilbert (1903-1991)

• Cain, James M. (1892-1977)
  Born in Annapolis, Maryland, July 1, 1892

  Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)

  Chappell, Helen

  Chase-Hyman, Paula

  Clancy, Tom (1947-)

  Clifton, Lucille (1936-)

  Collier, Michael (1953-)

  Conrad, Brenda

  see: Ford, Leslie

  Cooke, Ebenezer (1667-1732)

  Corbett, Christopher

  Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)

  Born near Easton, Maryland

  Duke, William (1757-1840)

  Finley, Martha (1828-1909)

  Died in Elkton, Maryland, January 29, 1909

  Flint, Roland (1934-2001)

  Ford, Leslie (1898-1983)
  (born: Zenith Jones; a.k.a. Brenda Conrad, David Frome.)

  Born in Smith River, California, December 8, 1898

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, August 25, 1983

  Frome, David

  see: Ford, Leslie

  Fuqua, Jonathon Scott

  Gildea, William

  Gresham, William Lindsay (1909-1962)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1909

  Grimes, Martha

  Grossman, Allen (1932- )

  Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Hammett, Dashiell (1894-1961)

  Born on Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1894

  Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 24, 1825
  

  Died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1911

  Heck, Peter J.

  Hilton, David P. (1938-2005)

  Died in Chestertown, Maryland, April 7, 2005

  Hunter, Stephen (1946-)

  Jacobsen, Josephine (1908-2003)

  Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, August 19, 1908
  

  Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003

  Kaufman, Millard (1917-2009)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 12, 1917
  

  Died in Los Angeles, California, March 14, 2009

  Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 25, 1795
  

  Died in Newport, Rhode Island, August 18, 1870

  Kenny, Carol

  Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)

  Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880

  Died in New York City, February 6, 1965

  Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)

  Born in Macon, Georgia, February 3, 1842
  

  Died in Lynn, North Carolina, September 7, 1881
  

  Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

  Lederer, William J. (1912-2009)

  Born in New York, March 31, 1912
  

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, December 5, 2009

  Lee, Barbara

  Lewis, Maggie Mei (1993-)

  Born in China, 1993

  Lincoln, Christine (1966- )

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Lippman, Laura (1959- )

  Malfi, Ronald Damien (1977-)

  Mangan, Kathy

  Massey, Sujata (1964- )

  Born in Sussex, England

  Matthews, Tonya Maria

  McGill, Alice

Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland

McDermott, Alice (1954- )

McKinsey, Folger (1867-1950)

• Miles, George Henry (1824-1871)
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 31, 1824
  
  Died near Emmitsburg, Maryland, July 31, 1871

  Mooney, Robert (1955- )

  Born in Rochester, New York, 1955

  Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 20, 1910
  

  Died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1985

  Nash, Ogden (1902-1971)

  Born in Rye, New York, August 19, 1902
  

  Lived in Baltimore, Maryland
  

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 19, 1971

  Oden, Gloria Catherine (1923-)

  Born in Yonkers, New York, October 30, 1923

  O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, June 27, 1926

• Parsons, Patty Leigh (1954-2002)
  Born in Salisbury, Maryland

  Pastan, Linda (1932-)

  Born in Bronx, New York, 1932

  Lived in Potomac, Maryland

  Pinckney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)

  Born in London, England, October 1, 1802
  

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11, 1828

  Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland

Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe and Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland, February 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Randall, Julia (1924-2005)
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland
  Died in North Bennington, Vermont, May 22, 2005

  Randolph, Innes (1837-1887)

  Born in Winchester, Virginia, October 25, 1837
  

  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 1887

  Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935)

  Robson, Lucia St. Clair (1942-)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Salamanca, J. R. (1924- )

  Scharper, Diane

  Semmes, Raphael (1809-1877)

  Shapiro, Karl (1913-2000)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 10, 1913

  Shepard, William S.

  Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Spires, Elizabeth (1952-)

  Steinbach, Alice

  Talley, Marcia (1945-)
  

  Born in Cleveland, Ohio

  Thompson, Sue Ellen (1948-)
  

  Born in New Jersey

  Tilghman, Christopher

  Townsend, George Alfred (1841-1914)

  Tyler, Anne (1941- )

  Uris, Leon (1924-2003 )

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 23, 1924
  

  Died in Shelter Island, New York, June 21, 2003

  Ward, Robert (1954-)
  

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

  Warfield, Gallatin

  Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825)

  Welby, Amelia Coppuck (b. 1819)

  Born in St. Michaels, Maryland, 1819

  West, Chassie

  White, Christopher

  Whittemore, Reed (1919-)

  Wormser, Baron (1948-)

  Born in Baltimore, Maryland

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