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98 famous people found
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Edgar Allan POE
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
1809 - 1849 -
Maurice BARRYMORE
Patriarch of the Barrymore acting family
1847 - 1905 -
Mark TWAIN
American author and humorist
1835 - 1910 -
Horace Greeley
American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune
1811 - 1872 -
John MUIR
Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America
1838 - 1914 -
Lew WALLACE
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author
1827 - 1905 -
Susan WALLACE
American author and poet
1830 - 1907 -
Julia WARD HOWE
American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1819 - 1910 -
Emily DICKINSON
American poet
1830 - 1886 -
Paul REVERE
American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution
1734 - 1818 -
Sidney Lanier
American musician, poet and author
1842 - 1881 -
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran
1842 -
Ina COOLBRITH
American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community
1841 - 1928 -
Edward Everett HALE
American author, historian, and Unitarian minister
1822 - 1909 -
John William DE FOREST
American soldier and writer of realistic fiction
1826 - 1906 -
Bruce PRICE
American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style
1845 - 1903 -
Francis PARKMAN
American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America
1823 - 1893 -
Henry Harris JESSUP
American Presbyterian missionary, author, and a founder of the American University of Beirut
1832 - 1910 -
Stephen FOSTER
American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music, known as "the father of American music"
1826 - 1864 -
Clara Louise KELLOGG
American singer
1842 - 1916