MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

LITERATURE

WRITERS

[photo, Sidney Lanier Memorial sculpture, by Hans Schuler (1941), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland]

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.

[photo, Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland]

Adichie, Chimamanda (1977-)
Alvarez, Rafael (1958- )
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Baker, Russell W. (1925- )

Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2009. Photo by Diane F. Evartt. Held each September at Mount Vernon Place, the Baltimore Book Festival offers books, authors, music, food, and programs for all ages. The next Baltimore Book Festival is scheduled for Sept. 23-25, 2011.

[photo, Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin with moderator, Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland]

Barth, John S. (1930- )

Bell, Madison Smartt (1957-)

Bozman, John Leeds (1757-1823)

Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin with moderator, Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2009. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Briscoe, Connie (1952-)

Born in Washington, DC
Brown, Zenith Jones
see: Ford, Leslie
Byron, Gilbert (1903-1991)

Baltimore Book Festival logo, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2009. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

[photo, authors, Janine Driver and Wray Herbert, Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland]

Cain, James M. (1892-1977)

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, July 1, 1892

Caplan, Thomas

Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)

Chappell, Helen

Chase-Hyman, Paula

Authors, Janine Driver and Wray Herbert, Baltimore Book Festival, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Clancy, Tom (1947-)
Clifton, Lucille (1936-)
Collier, Michael (1953-)
Conrad, Brenda
see: Ford, Leslie
Cooke, Ebenezer (1667-1732)
Corbett, Christopher
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)
Ford, Leslie (1898-1983)
(born: Zenith Jones; a.k.a. Brenda Conrad, David Frome.)
Born in Smith River, California, December 8, 1898
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, August 25, 1983
Frome, David
see: Ford, Leslie
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott
Gildea, William
Goodman, Eric D.
Gordon, Jaimy (1944-)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 4, 1944
Gresham, William Lindsay (1909-1962)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1909
Grimes, Martha
Grossman, Allen (1932- )
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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)
Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, August 19, 1908

Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003
Kaufman, Millard (1917-2009)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 12, 1917

Died in Los Angeles, California, March 14, 2009
Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 25, 1795

Died in Newport, Rhode Island, August 18, 1870
Kenny, Carol
Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)
Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880
Died in New York City, February 6, 1965
Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
Born in Macon, Georgia, February 3, 1842

Died in Lynn, North Carolina, September 7, 1881

Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
Lederer, William J. (1912-2009)
Born in New York, March 31, 1912

Died in Baltimore, Maryland, December 5, 2009
Lee, Barbara
Lewis, Maggie Mei (1993-)
Born in China, 1993
Lincoln, Christine (1966- )
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Lippman, Laura (1959- )
Malfi, Ronald Damien (1977-)
Mangan, Kathy
Massey, Sujata (1964- )
Born in Sussex, England
Matthews, Tonya Maria
McGill, Alice

[photo, Garden at H. L. Mencken House, 1524 Hollins St., Baltimore, Maryland]

Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956)
McDermott, Alice (1954- )
McKinsey, Folger (1867-1950)

Garden at H. L. Mencken House, 1524 Hollins St., Baltimore, Maryland, December 2005. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Miles, George Henry (1824-1871)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 31, 1824

Died near Emmitsburg, Maryland, July 31, 1871
Mooney, Robert (1955- )
Born in Rochester, New York, 1955
Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 20, 1910

Died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1985
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-)
Born in Yonkers, New York, October 30, 1923
O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, June 27, 1926

[photo, Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe and Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland]

Parsons, Patty Leigh (1954-2002)
Born in Salisbury, Maryland
Pastan, Linda (1932-)
Born in Bronx, New York, 1932
Lived in Potomac, Maryland
Pinckney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)
Born in London, England, October 1, 1802

Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11, 1828
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Died in Baltimore, Maryland

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.

Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)
Died in Silver Spring, Maryland, September 18, 1980
Randall, Julia (1924-2005)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Died in North Bennington, Vermont, May 22, 2005
Randolph, Innes (1837-1887)
Born in Winchester, Virginia, October 25, 1837

Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 1887
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
Shepard, William S.
Simon, David (1960-)
Born in Washington, DC, 1960
Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Spires, Elizabeth (1952-)
Steinbach, Alice
Talley, Marcia (1945-)

Born in Cleveland, Ohio
Thompson, Sue Ellen (1948-)

Born in New Jersey
Tilghman, Christopher
Townsend, George Alfred (1841-1914)
Turnbull, Grace H. (1880-1976)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1880.
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, 1976.

Tyler, Anne (1941- )
Uris, Leon (1924-2003 )
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 23, 1924

Died in Shelter Island, New York, June 21, 2003
Ward, Robert (1954-)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Warfield, Gallatin
Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825)
Welby, Amelia Coppuck (b. 1819)
Born in St. Michaels, Maryland, 1819
West, Chassie
White, Christopher
Whittemore, Reed (1919-)
Wormser, Baron (1948-)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland

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