Claim To Fame : Authors and Writers
4,292 memorials found
Henry Brooks Adams
16 Feb 1838 – 27 Mar 1918Author, Historian. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to one of...
Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Louisa May Alcott
29 Nov 1832 – 6 Mar 1888Author. She is best known as the author of the novel "Little...
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Sholem Aleichem
5 Mar 1859 – 13 May 1916Author. Considered one of the greatest Yiddish writers, his short...
Glendale, Queens County, New York, USA
Horatio Alger, Jr
13 Jan 1832 – 18 Jul 1899Author. Raised in a strict Calvinist home he attempted to follow...
Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nelson Algren
28 Mar 1909 – 9 May 1981Author. Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the...
Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Frederick Lewis Allen
5 Jul 1890 – 13 Feb 1954Historian. He is best remembered as an American historian of the...
Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Maxwell Anderson
15 Dec 1888 – 28 Feb 1959American Journalist, Author, Playwright, and Pulitzer Prize...
Cochranton, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Sherwood Anderson
13 Sep 1876 – 8 Mar 1941Author. Born the third of seven children of Erwin and Emma...
Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, USA
Guillaume Apollinaire
26 Aug 1880 – 9 Nov 1918Poet. A leader of the Paris avant-garde before and during World...
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
30 Oct 1857 – 14 Jun 1948Author. Wrote 60 books and millions of words for magazines and...
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA
Jane Austen
16 Dec 1775 – 18 Jul 1817Novelist. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the...
Winchester, City of Winchester, Hampshire, England
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
9 Jan 1886 – 17 May 1969Journalist and Humorist. Born into a family of French origin, he...
Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
Honoré de Balzac
20 May 1799 – 18 Aug 1850Author. He is considered the founder of the realistic school of...
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
John Bartlett
14 Jun 1820 – 3 Dec 1905Author. He is best remembered for his work "Bartlett's Familiar...
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Charles Baudelaire
9 Apr 1821 – 31 Aug 1867French Poet. Known as "the father of modern criticism." Charles...
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Sylvia Beach
14 Mar 1887 – 5 Oct 1962Literary Folk Figure. A noted book-seller, she is remembered as...
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Charles Austin Beard
27 Nov 1874 – 1 Sep 1948Historian. He attended DePauw University, graduating in 1898,...
Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
Mary Ritter Beard
5 Aug 1876 – 14 Aug 1958Historian and Suffragist. Beard attended public schools in...
Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
Meyer “Mike” Berger
1 Sep 1898 – 8 Feb 1959Journalist. Berger won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism,...
Saddle Brook, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
John Allyn Berryman
25 Oct 1914 – 7 Jan 1972American Confessional Poet, Pulitzer Prize Winner. He is best...
Mendota Heights, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA
