LITERATURE
WRITERS
![[photo, Sidney Lanier Memorial sculpture, by Hans Schuler (1941), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/01glance/arts/images/1198-1-560.jpg)
- Poets Laureate
Sidney Lanier Memorial sculpture, by Hans Schuler (1941), The Johns Hopkins University, North Charles St. near University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2003. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
"Book Parade" at Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
The Baltimore Book Festival is held each September at Mount Vernon Place.
- Bell, Madison Smartt (1957-)
- Bozman, John Leeds (1757-1823)
- Briscoe, Connie (1952-)
- Born in Washington, DC
- Byron, Gilbert (1903-1991)
- Cain, James M. (1892-1977)
- Born in Annapolis, Maryland
- Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)
- Chappell, Helen
- Clancy, Tom (1947-)
- Clifton, Lucille (1936-)
- Collier, Michael (1953-)
- Cooke, Ebenezer (1667-1732)
- 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)
- Fuqua, Jonathon Scott
- Gildea, William
- Gresham, William Lindsay (1909-1962)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1909
- Grimes, Martha
- Grossman, Allen (1932- )
- 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)
- Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003.
- Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)
- Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880
- Died in New York City, February 6, 1965
- Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
- Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
- Lee, Barbara
- Lincoln, Christine (1966- )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Lippman, Laura (1959- )
- Malfi, Ronald Damien (1977-)
- Mangan, Kathy
- Massey, Sujata (1964- )
- 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
- Mooney, Robert (1955- )
- Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- 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-)
- O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
![[photo, Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe and Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/1198-1-665.jpg)
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)
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland
- 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
- Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Spires, Elizabeth (1952-)
- Steinbach, Alice
- Talley, Marcia (1945-)
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio
- 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
- Warfield, Gallatin
- Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825)
- Welby, Amelia Coppuck (b. 1819)
- Born in St. Michaels, Maryland, 1819
- West, Chassie
- Whittemore, Reed (1919-)
- Wormser, Baron (1948-)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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