LITERATURE
WRITERS
![[photo, Sidney Lanier Memorial sculpture, by Hans Schuler (1941), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/01glance/arts/images/1198-1-560.jpg)
- Poets Laureate
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.
- Alvarez, Rafael (1958- )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Baker, Russell W. (1925- )
- Barth, John S. (1930- )
- Bell, Madison Smartt (1957-)
- Bozman, John Leeds (1757-1823)
- Briscoe, Connie (1952-)
- Born in Washington, DC
- Byron, Gilbert (1903-1991)
- Cain, James M. (1892-1977)
- Born in Annapolis, Maryland
- Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)
- Chappell, Helen
- Clancy, Tom (1947-)
- Clifton, Lucille (1936-)
- Collier, Michael (1953-)
- Cooke, Ebenezer (1667-1732)
- 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)
- Fuqua, Jonathon Scott
- Gildea, William
- Gresham, William Lindsay (1909-1962)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1909
- Grimes, Martha
- Grossman, Allen (1932- )
- 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
- Jacobsen, Josephine (1908-2003)
- Died in Cockeysville, Maryland, July 9, 2003.
- Kennedy, John Pendleton (1795-1870)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Kerr, Sophie (1880-1965)
- Born in Denton, Maryland, August 23, 1880
- Died in New York City, February 6, 1965
- Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
- Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
- Lee, Barbara
- Lincoln, Christine (1966- )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Mangan, Kathy
- Massey, Sujata (1964- )
- Matthews, Tonya Maria
- McGill, Alice
- Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- McDermott, Alice (1954- )
- McKinsey, Folger (1867-1950)
- Miles, George Henry (1824-1871)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Mooney, Robert (1955- )
- Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- 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-)
- O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
![[photo, Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe and Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/1198-1-665.jpg)
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.
- Randall, Julia (1924-2005)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Died in North Bennington, Vermont, May 22, 2005
- Randolph, Innes (1837-1887)
- Died in Baltimore, Maryland
- 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
- Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Spires, Elizabeth (1952-)
- Steinbach, Alice
- Talley, Marcia (1945-)
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Tilghman, Christopher
- Townsend, George Alfred (1841-1914)
- Tyler, Anne (1941- )
- Uris, Leon (1924-2003 )
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 23, 1924
- Died in Shelter Island, New York, June 21, 2003
- Warfield, Gallatin
- Weems, Mason Locke (1759-1825)
- Welby, Amelia Coppuck (b. 1819)
- Born in St. Michaels, Maryland, 1819
- West, Chassie
- Whittemore, Reed (1919-)
- Wormser, Baron (1948-)
- Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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