Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

male, deceased (1790)
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,...
John Adams

John Adams

male, deceased (1740)
John Adams (1704 - January 1740), was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from...
Samuel Danforth

Samuel Danforth

male
Samuel Danforth was a Puritan minister, preacher, poet, and astronomer, and an associate of the Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury, Massachusetts, known as...
Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch

male, deceased (1867)
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian...
Esther Forbes

Esther Forbes

female, deceased (1967)
Esther Forbes (June 28 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American biographer, novelist, and children's writer who received both a Pulitzer Prize and a...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

male, deceased (1862)
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

male, deceased (1882)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life",...
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

male, deceased (1864)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen...
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

female, deceased (1886)
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

male, deceased (1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
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