Selected Author Biographies
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
William Apess (1798-1839)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
