- Steve Carell
He was educated at the The Fenn School and Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, as well as Denison University in Granville, Ohio. ... Born August 16, 1962, Steve got his start as a correspondent on the TV program "The Daily Show with John Stewart ". He then branched out to star in the TV series "The Office". - Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991) was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including "The Cat in the Hat", "Green Eggs and Ham", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish". His books have become staples for many children and their parents. - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation, a term he himself created. Kerouac enjoyed some degree of popular appeal but little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, however, he is considered an important and influential author. - Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb CBE (born December 22, 1949) is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents, the twin brother of Maurice Gibb (1949-2003), and younger brother to Barry. He is best known as a member of the singing/songwriting trio the Bee Gees. The trio got their start in Australia, and found major success when they returned to England. The Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time. - Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life. Although she wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime. All of these were published anonymously and some may have been published without her knowledge. - Frederick Douglass IV
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant. He later recalled that he did not see his mother "more than four or five times in my life." When Douglass was about six years old, he was sent to a nearby plantation where he ran errands and performed simple chores. Douglass learned in 1825 that he was to be sent away from the plantation to Baltimore. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. - David Wright
David Wright is an American writer who grew up in Borger, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, and an M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers, but his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, "Moby-Dick" - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, … - Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler was born on Thursday, September 16 and 1971 and she is a famous actress. ... Amy Poehler had studied at Burlington High School, Burlington, MA (1989) and then Amy attended the BA Communications, Boston College (1993). - Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million. - Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born Denis Colin Leary on August 18 1957) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. He is known for his often angry comedic style and his frequent chain smoking, as well as his copying of comedian Bill Hicks' routine. Much like Hicks' act, Leary displays an overt affinity for libertarianism. - Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel "Little Women", published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. - Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. He is known as one of the greatest and most profound of American theologians and revivalists. His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology and the Puritan heritage. - Eli Roth
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer. He established himself as a brand name director after his first film "Cabin Fever", with name-above-the-title billing on all of his films since. Roth has done so without the support of mainstream press, and mainly uses the internet to promote his films and connect with his fans. - Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her "Dragonriders of Pern" series. - Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her poetry continues to be widely read and studied. She is considered one of the finest 20th century poets to have written in English. - Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is a comic book writer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington, where he befriended another future comic book writer, Scott McCloud. - Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (born February 11, 1939 in New York City) is an American author, and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She wrote the Nebula Award-winning "Sister Emily's Lightship" (short story) and "Lost Girls" (novelette), as well as "Owl Moon" and "The Emperor and the Kite", Caldecott Medal winners, the "Commander Toad" series and "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight". - Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American stand-up comic. She is known for her quiet, self-deprecating style, political observations, and her trademark suit and tie outfit. - Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Gail Collins
Gail Collins (born December 25, 1945) was the Editorial Page Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first woman Editorial Page Editor at the "Times". Before the Editorial Page, Collins was an editorial board member and columnist on the op-ed page. On October 12, 2006, she announced that she would step down as Editorial Page Editor, effective this year. Collins will take a year off to write a book, … - Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, … - Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, politician, writer and political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Adams was instrumental in garnering the support of the colonies for rebellion against Great Britain, eventually resulting in the American Revolution, and was also one of the key architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped American political culture. - Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, known for his "New York Times" bestselling memoir "Running with Scissors" (2002), which spawned a feature film of the same name. - Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Burlington, Massachusetts. He is known for his slow, deadpan, monotone delivery of ironic, witty, deeply philosophical and sometimes confusing jokes and one-liners with overly contrived situations. Wright released a comedy album in 1985 titled "I Have a Pony", released on Warner Bros. - Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which achieved a far wider audience due to being dramatized as a television series, "Spenser: For Hire", on the ABC network during the late 1980s. His works explore aspects of human nature and incorporate considerable knowledge about the Boston metropolitan area. - Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century. - David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is a prolific multi-Emmy award winning American writer, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal", "Boston Public", and "Boston Legal". He has also written several film scripts. Kelley's shows are renowned for their whimsical, occasionally surreal comedic touches, as well as moments of seriousness. - Abbie Hoffman
Abbott Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was a self-identified communo-anarchist, social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies"), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. - Eric Bogosian
Frequently mislabeled as a performance artist, Eric Bogosian is a writer and an actor known for his comedic monologues and social commentary. Born on the East Coast and educated in the Midwest, he wrote and performed numerous one-man shows around New York during the late '70s and early '80s. After doing shows in art spaces like The Kitchen, he eventually had his solo work Fun House committed to video. The 1987 production was taped in front of a live audience. - Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing - Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book "Drown" became an overnight literary sensation. The stories in "Drown" are: "Ysrael", "Fiesta, 1980", "Aurora", "Drown", "Boyfriend", "Edison, New Jersey", "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie", "No Face", "Negocios". Diaz is the first Dominican-born man to become a major writer in the United States. - Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. - Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson (born August 13, 1967) is a journalist and author based in western Massachusetts. He has written for "Harper's", "The Boston Globe", "Wired", "Science," and the "Rolling Stone" and is a regular contributor to "New Scientist" and "Wired News". He is a proponent of the "Oxfordian" theory, that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, … - Frank O'Hara
Francis Russell O'Hara was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. - David Walker
David Walker was an American black abolitionist, most famous for his pamphlet "Walker's Appeal", which called for black pride, demanded the immediate and universal emancipation of the slaves, and defended violent rebellion as a means for the slaves to gain their freedom. Walker was born as free black in Wilmington, North Carolina, to an enslaved father and a free mother.
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