Henry Brooks Adams

16 Feb 1838 – 27 Mar 1918

Author, Historian. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to one of...

Rock Creek Cemetery

Louisa May Alcott

29 Nov 1832 – 6 Mar 1888

Author. She is best known as the author of the novel "Little...

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Sholem Aleichem

5 Mar 1859 – 13 May 1916

Author. Born Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich in Voronko, Russia, he...

Mount Carmel Cemetery

Horatio Alger, Jr

13 Jan 1832 – 18 Jul 1899

Author. Raised in a strict Calvinist home he attempted to follow...

Glenwood Cemetery

Nelson Algren

28 Mar 1909 – 9 May 1981

Author. Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the...

Oakland Cemetery

Frederick Lewis Allen

5 Jul 1890 – 13 Feb 1954

Historian. He is best remembered as an American historian of the...

Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory

Maxwell Anderson

15 Dec 1888 – 28 Feb 1959

American Journalist, Author, Playwright, and Pulitzer Prize...

Anderson Family Cemetery

Sherwood Berton Anderson

13 Sep 1876 – 8 Mar 1941

Author. Born the third of seven children of Erwin and Emma...

Round Hill Cemetery

Guillaume Apollinaire

26 Aug 1880 – 9 Nov 1918

Poet. A leader of the Paris avant-garde before and during World...

Cimetière du Père Lachaise

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

30 Oct 1857 – 14 Jun 1948

Author. Wrote 60 books and millions of words for magazines and...

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

Jane Austen

16 Dec 1775 – 18 Jul 1817

Novelist. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the...

Winchester Cathedral

Arthur “Bugs” Baer

9 Jan 1886 – 17 May 1969

Journalist and Humorist. Born into a family of French origin, he...

Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum

Honoré de Balzac

20 May 1799 – 18 Aug 1850

Author. He is considered the founder of the realistic school of...

Cimetière du Père Lachaise

John Bartlett

14 Jun 1820 – 3 Dec 1905

Author. He is best remembered for his work "Bartlett's Familiar...

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Charles Baudelaire

9 Apr 1821 – 31 Aug 1867

French Poet. Known as "the father of modern criticism." Charles...

Cimetière de Montparnasse

Sylvia Beach

14 Mar 1887 – 5 Oct 1962

Literary Folk Figure. A noted book-seller, she is remembered as...

Princeton Cemetery

Charles Austin Beard

27 Nov 1874 – 1 Sep 1948

Historian.

Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum

Mary Ritter Beard

5 Aug 1876 – 14 Aug 1958

Historian.

Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum

Meyer “Mike” Berger

1 Sep 1898 – 8 Feb 1959

Journalist. Berger won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism,...

Riverside Cemetery

John Allyn Berryman

25 Oct 1914 – 7 Jan 1972

American Confessional Poet, Pulitzer Prize Winner. He is best...

Resurrection Cemetery