Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

female, deceased (1886)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, American women writer, lesbian, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, fromAmherst, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College alumnae…Massachusetts writer, from Massachusetts
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one...
Edward Dickinson

Edward Dickinson

male, deceased (1874)
Amherst College, from Massachusetts, whig party, whig, Yale College, United States Congress…Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Edward Dickinson was a Massachusetts politician. He is best known as the father of famous poet Emily Dickinson; their family home in Amherst, the...
J Mascis

J Mascis

male, 43 years old
Dinosaur Jr, Dinosaur Jr., guitarist, J Mascis & The Fog, Joseph Donald Mascis, University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni…fromAmherst, Massachusetts, born in Amherst, Massachusetts
J Mascis (born Joseph Donald Mascis on December 10 1965) is an American musician, best-known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur...
Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson

female, deceased (1885)
Massachusetts writer, Investigative journalist, from the Greater Los Angeles Area, Native American, southern california, California writer…fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 - August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of "Ramona", a novel about the ill...
Noah Webster

Noah Webster

male, deceased (1843)
English spelling reform, from West Hartford, Connecticut, Yale University alumni, journalist, American, Congregationalist…fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 - April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor....
Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs

male, 44 years old
from the United States, New York Times, The New York Times, fromAmherst, Massachusetts, LGBT writer, Augusten Xon Burroughs…From Pittsburgh
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, known for his "New York...
Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

female, 39 years old
Kill Bill, actress, film actor, sexy, action, American…Massachusetts actor, fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging...
Silas Wright

Silas Wright

male, deceased (1847)
Democrat, democratic party, United States Democratic Party, from New York, new york state senator, Middlebury College…from Vermont, from Capital District, New York, fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Silas Wright, Jr. (May 24, 1795 - August 27, 1847) was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with...
Stuart Symington

Stuart Symington

male, deceased (1988)
fromAmherst, Massachusetts, United States Secretary of the Air Force, from Missouri, democratic, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, secretary of the air force…from Massachusetts
William Stuart Symington was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force (from 1947 until...
Paul Nitze

Paul Nitze

male, deceased (2004)
Johns Hopkins University faculty, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Harvard University alumni, Recipient of the Legion of Merit, United States Secretary of the Navy, Cold War…from Washington, D.C., fromAmherst, Massachusetts
Paul Henry Nitze (January 16 1907 - October 19 2004) was a high-ranking United States government official who helped shape Cold War defense policy...