Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Short story writer, Romanticism, Horror writer, American, Detective fiction…Philadelphia writer, Marylandwriter, Virginia writer, The Simpsons writer, New York writer
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...
John Barth

John Barth

male, 79 years old
Juilliard School of Music alumni, Short story writer, Postmodern literature, Maryland Eastern Shore native, Johns Hopkins University alumni, Penn State University…Marylandwriter, Maryland Eastern Shore natives
John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his...
H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

male, deceased (1956) (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
German-American, baltimore sun, journalist, Marylandwriter, Autodidact, from Maryland…Political writer, writer
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social...

Ebenezer Cooke

male, deceased (1732)
poet, from Maryland, satirist, American, From London, English…Marylandwriter
Ebenezer Cooke, a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: “The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Sa...
Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

female, 68 years old
Columbia University, National Book Critics Circle Award, Marylandwriter, from the Triangle, North Carolina, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner…North Carolina writer, Minnesota writer
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North...
Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts

female, 59 years old
romantic novels, In Death, best-seller, from Montgomery County, Maryland, Marylandwriter, Bestseller…from Washington County, Maryland, Romance Writer of America, Romantic fiction writer
Nora Roberts (b. October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland as Eleanor Marie Robertson), is a bestselling American author of more than one hundred...
Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter

male, 63 years old
Crime fiction writer, American, Film criticism, Thriller writer, United States Army soldier, From Kansas City…Missouri writer, Marylandwriter
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
George Pelecanos

George Pelecanos

male, 52 years old
novelist, Washington, D.C. writer, Marylandwriter, University of Maryland, College Park alumni, from Washington, D.C., Greek-American…Crime fiction writer, mystery writer, from Montgomery County, Maryland, writer
George Pelecanos (born 1957 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author of detective fiction set primarily in the capital of the United States,...
Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie

female, 62 years old
Minimalist writer, University of Connecticut alumni, University of Connecticut faculty, from Washington, D.C., Marylandwriter, Virginia writer…Washington, D.C. writer, from Maryland, writer, Short story writer
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American...
Alfred Gough

Alfred Gough

male, 42 years old
from Maryland, The Peter Stark Producing Program, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Herbie Fully Loaded, Marylandwriter, Smallville…California writer, Lethal Weapon 4 writer, Shanghai Noon writer, Shanghai Knights writer, Herbie Fully Loaded writer
Alfred Fabian Gough III is an American screenwriter and producer. He graduated from St. Mary’s Ryken High School in 1985 and The Catholic Un...
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