Find out more about the greatest 19th Century American Writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Helen Keller and H. P. Lovecraft.
Louisa May Alcott29 November 1832
Writer
Ernest Hemingway21 July 1899
Journalist
Helen Keller27 June 1880
Author
Edgar Allan Poe19 January 1809
Author, Poet, Editor and Literary Critic
Emily Dickinson10 December 1830
Poet
Mark Twain30 November 1835
Author and Humorist
T. S. Eliot26 September 1888
Poet
F. Scott Fitzgerald24 September 1896
Novelist
Jack London12 January 1876
Author
Robert Frost26 March 1874
Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson25 May 1803
American Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist & Poet
Henry David Thoreau12 July 1817
Writer and Philosopher
Laura Ingalls Wilder07 February 1867
American writer
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894
Writer
Walt Whitman31 May 1819
Poet & humanist
William Faulkner25 September 1897
Writer, Nobel Laureate
Herman Melville01 August 1819
Zora Neale Hurston07 January 1891
Folklorist, Anthropologist
Buffalo Bill26 February 1846
Hunter
Vladimir Nabokov22 April 1899
Novelist
Henry James15 April 1843
Writer
Emma Goldman27 June 1869
Writer
Ezra Pound30 October 1885
Poet
Nathaniel Hawthorne04 July 1804
American Novelist
John J. Pershing13 September 1860
US Army Officer During WW I
Upton Sinclair20 September 1878
American writer
O. Henry11 September 1862
Short Story Writer
Gertrude Stein03 February 1874
American novelist
Harriet Beecher Stowe14 June 1811
American author
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888
Playwright
Napoleon Hill26 October 1883
Writer of personal-success literature
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Dorothy Parker22 August 1893
Poet
Raymond Chandler23 July 1888
Novelist and Screenwriter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807
Poet & Educator
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875
Educator
Edgar Rice Burroughs01 September 1875
Creator of Tarzan
E. B. White11 July 1899
Edith Wharton24 January 1862
Writer
Alice Roosevelt Longworth12 February 1884
Writer
E. E. Cummings14 October 1894
Poet
W. C. Fields29 January 1880
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Willa Cather07 December 1873
Author
Sinclair Lewis07 February 1885
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841
Explorer
Francis Scott Key01 August 1779
Lawyer
Kate Chopin08 February 1850
Author
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854
Conductor, Composer
Carl Sandburg06 January 1878
Writer & Editor
Charlotte Perkins Gilman03 July 1860
Writer
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871
Author
Will Durant05 November 1885
Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849
Novelist
Claude McKay15 September 1889
Writer
Horatio Alger13 January 1832
American writer
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
Edna St. Vincent Millay22 February 1892
Poetess and Playwright
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810
Wallace Stevens02 October 1879
Poet
Henry Ward Beecher24 June 1813
Clergyman, Preacher & Abolitionist
John Galsworthy14 August 1867
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Sholem Aleichem02 March 1859
Author
Henry Adams16 February 1838
Historian
Sherwood Anderson13 September 1876
Writer
Norman Thomas20 November 1884
John Greenleaf Whittier17 December 1807
Poet
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Bret Harte25 August 1836
Author & Poet
Ella Wheeler Wilcox05 November 1850
Poet and Mystic Rosicrucian
Matilda Joslyn Gage24 March 1826
Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Henry Ossian Flipper21 March 1856
Military Leader
Alexander Woollcott19 January 1887
American critic
Orison Swett Marden1850 AD
Inspirational Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.29 August 1809
Writer, Physician
John George Nicolay26 February 1832
Biographer
Allen Tate19 November 1899
Poet
Christopher Morley05 May 1890
Journalist, Novelist
Don Marquis29 July 1878
Humorist
Malcolm Cowley24 August 1898
Novelist & Poet
Thomas Bailey Aldrich11 November 1836
Poet & Novelist
Pearl Buck26 June 1892
American writer
Anna Katharine Green11 November 1846
Detective Fiction Writer
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858
Author, Educator
John Reed22 October 1887
Journalist, Poet
Henry Van Dyke10 November 1852
Writer
P G Wodehouse15 October 1881
Playwright and Author
Ellen G White26 November 1827
Author
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale31 May 1898
Pastor, Self-Help Writer
Jack Frost25 November 1893
Composer
Ellen G. White26 November 1827
Writer
Frederick Winslow Taylor20 March 1856
Tennis player, Engineer, Economist, Golfer,
Rose Wilder Lane05 December 1886
Journalists
Robert Stroud08 January 1890
Writer