Biographies

This area contains data regarding historical persons related to American History.
* = extensive biographies
# = literary biography

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A

• Adams, John * (1735-1826)
• Allen, Ethan * (1738-1789)

  B

• Baldwin, Abraham (1754-1807)
• Baldwin, James # (1924-1987)
• Barth, John # (1930- )
• Bassett, Richard, (1745-1815)
• Bedford, Gunning, (1747-1812)
• Bellamy, Edward, (1850-1897)
• Bellow, Saul # (1915- )
• Berryman, John # (1914-1972)
• Beverley, Robert # (c. 1673-1722)
• Bishop, Elisabeth # (1911-1979)
• Blackstone, William (1723 - 1780)
• Bradford, William # (1590-1657)
• Bradstreet, Anne # (c. 1612-1672)
• Blair, John(1732-1800)
• Blount, William, (1749-1800)
• Brearly, David, (1745-1790)
• Broom, Jacob, (1752-1810)
• Brockden Brown, Charles # (1771-1810)
• Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
• Burr Jr., Aaron(1756-1836)
• Bush, George (1924 - )
• Butler, Pierce, (1744-1822)
• Byrd, William # (1674-1744)

  C

• Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850)
• Carey, Henry (1793-1879)
• Carroll, Daniel (1730-1796)
• Carter, Jimmy (1924 - )
• Cather, Willa # (1873-1947
• Chase, Salmon Portland * (1808-1873)
• Cheever, John # (1912-1982)
• Child, Lydia # (1802-1880)
• Chesnutt, Charles Waddell # (1858-1932)
• Clinton, Bill (1946 - )
• Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
• Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) # (1835-1910)
• Clymer, George (1739-1813)
• Crane, Hart # (1899-1932)
• Crane, Stephen # (1871-1900)
• Cooper, James Fennimore # (1789-1851)
• Creeley, Robert # (1926- )
• Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de # (1735-1813)
• Cummings, Edward Estlin # (1735-1813)

  D

• Davie William Richardson (1756-1820)
• Dayton, Jonathan (1760-1824)
• Dickey, James # (1923- )
• Dickinson, Emily # (1830-1886)
• Dickinson, John (1732-1808), by Marianne Bouman
• Dickinson, John (1732-1808)
• Dos Passos, John # (1896-1970)
• Douglass, Frederick * Autobiography (1817-1895)
• Douglass, Frederick # (1817-1895)
• Dreiser, Theodore # (1871-1945)
• Du Bois, W.E.B. # (1868-1963)
• Dulany, Daniel

  E

• Edwards, Jonathan # (1703-1758)
• Eliot, T.S. # (1888-1965)
• Ellison, Ralph Waldo # (1914-1994)
• Ellsworth, Oliver (1745-1807)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo # (1803-1882)
• Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) # (c. 1745-c. 1797)

  F

• Faulkner, William # (1897-1962)
• Few, William (1748-1828)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott # (1896-1940)
• Fitzsimons, Thomas (1741-1811)
• Ford, Gerald (1913 - )
• Franklin, Benjamin * (1706-1790)
• Franklin, Benjamin # (1706-1790)
• Freneau, Philip # (1752-1832)
• Frost, Robert # (1874-1963)
• Fuller, Margaret # (1810-1850)

  G

• Gardner, John# (1933-1982)
• Gerry, Elbridge (1744-1814)
• Glasgow, Ellen# (1873-1945)
• Geronimo * - Autobiography
• Gilman, Nicholas (1755-1814)
• Gorham, Nathaniel (1738-1796)
• Grimké, Angelina# (1805-1879)

  H

• Hamilton, Alexander * (1755-1804)
• Hammon, Jupiter# (c. 1720-c. 1800)
• Harding, Warren Gamaliel (1865-1923)
• Harte, Bret#
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel#
• Hemingway, Ernest#
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell#
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935)
• Houston, William C. (1746-1788 0
• Houstoun, William (1755-1813)
• Hughes, Langston#
• Hugo, Richard#
• Hurston, Zora Neale#

  I

• Ingersoll, Jared (1749-1822)
• Irving, Washington#

  J

• Jackson, Andrew * (1767-1845)
• Jacobs, Harriet#
• James, Henry#
• Jeffers, Robinson#
• Jefferson, Thomas * (1743-1826)
• Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas (1723-1790)
• Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
• Johnson, James Weldon#
• Johnson, Lyndon B. (1908-1973)
• Johnson, William Samuel (1727-1819)

  K

• Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963)
• Kerouac, Jack#

  L

• Langdon, John (1741-1819)
• Lansing, John Jr. (1754-1829)
• Lee, Richard Henry (1732-1794)
• Lee, Robert E. (1807-1872)
• Leonard, Daniel (1740-1829)
• Levine, Philip#
• Lewis, Sinclair#
• Lindsay, Vachel#
• Livingston, William (1723-1790)
• Locke, John (1632-1704)
• London, Jack#
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth#
• Lowell, James Russell#
• Lowell, Robert#

  M

• Mailer, Norman#
• Malamud, Bernard#
• Marshall, John (1755-1835)
• Martin, Luther (1748-1826)
• Mason, George * (1725-1792)
• Masters, Edgar Lee#
• Mather, Cotton#
• McClurg, James (1746-1823)
• McHenry, James (1753-1816)
• Melville, Herman#
• Mercer, John Francis 1759-1821
• Mifflin, Thomas (1744-1800)
• Miller, Arthur#
• Moore, Marianne#
• Morris, Gouverneur (1752-1816)
• Morris, Robert (1734-1806)
• Morrison, Toni#

  N

• Nabokov, Vladimir#
• Lord North (1713-1792)

  O

• O'Connor, Flannery#
• Odets, Clifford#
• O'Hara, John#
• O'Neill, Eugene#

  P

• Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
• Paterson, William (1745-1806)
• Pierce, William Leigh (1740-1789)
• Pinckney, Charles (1757-1824)
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (1746-1825)
• Plath, Sylvia#
• Poe, Edgar Allen#
• Porter, Katherine Anne#
• Pound, Ezra#
• Pynchon, Thomas#

  Q

  R

• Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813)
• Read, George (1733-1798)
• Reagan, Ronald (1911 - )
• Rich, Adrienne#
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington#
• Roethke, Theodore#
• Rowlandson, Mary#
• Rutledge, John (1739-1800)

  S

• Salinger, J. D.#
• Sandburg, Carl#
• Sexton, Anne#
• Sewall, Samuel #
• Sherman, Roger (1721-1793)
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis #
• Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
• Spaight, Richard Dobbs Sr. (1758-1802)
• Stanton, Edwin McMasters * (1814-1869)
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady #
• Steinbeck, John #
• Stevens, Wallace#
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher #
• Strong, Caleb (1745-1819)
• Stuyvesant, Peter, (1592-1672)

  T

• Taft, William Howard(1857-1930)
• Taylor, Edward #
• Thoreau, Henry David #
• Toomer, Jean #
• Truth, Sojourner #

  U

• Updike, John #

  V

  W

• Walker, Alice #
• Warren, Robert Penn #
• Washington, Booker T. #
• Washington, George(1732-1799)
• Welty, Eudora #
• Wharton, Edith #
• Wheatley, Phyllis #
• Whitman, Walt #
• Whittier, John Greenleaf #
• Wigglesworth, Michael #
• Wilder, Thorton #
• Williams, Roger #
• Williams, Tennessee #
• Williams, William Carlos #
• Williamson, Hugh (1735-1819)
• Wilson, Harriet #
• Wilson, James (1742-1798)
• Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
• Woolman, John #
• Wright, Richard #
• Wythe, George (1726-1806)

  X

  Y

• Yates, Robert (1738-1801)

  Z