Paine, Thomas of PA (journalist/political pamphleteer)

Irving, Washington of NY (diplomat/novelist)

Bryant, William Cullen of MA (poet/journalist)

Cooper, James Fenimore of NY (novelist)

Poe, Edgar Allan of MD (journalist/novelist)

Lowell, James Russell of MA (journalist/poet)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth of ME (poet)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo of MA (essayist/poet/orator)

Thoreau, Henry David of MA (poet)

Beecher (Stowe), Harriet of CT (novelist)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel of MA (novelist)

Melville, Herman of NY (novelist)

Whitman II, Walter of NY (poet)

Grant, (Hiram Ulysses) Ulysses Simpson of OH (general/historian)

Dickinson, Emily of MA (poet)

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, a.k.a. Mark Twain, of VA (journalist/correspondent/novelist)

Sanburg, Carl August of IL (journalist/poet/biographer)

Frost, Robert Lee of MA (poet/playwright) Williams, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" of TN (playwright)

Sinclair II, Upton Beall of CA (novelist)

Adams, Henry of MA (historian/journalist/novelist)