page_title: List of people from Massachusetts
section_title: Literature, journalism, and philosophy
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Massachusetts / Literature, journalism, and philosophy
caption_attribution_description: English: Digitally restored black and white daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson, c. early 1847
context_page_description: This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth. People from Massachusetts are called "Massachusettsans" or "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.
context_section_description: Francis Ellingwood Abbot – philosopher and theologian
  Herbert Baxter Adams – educator, historian
  Louisa May Alcott – author, Little Women (Concord)
  Horatio Alger, Jr. – author
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes – author, In the Forests of the Night, Demon in my View (Concord)
  Mike Barnicle – journalist
  Peter Beinart – journalist (Cambridge)
  Edward Bellamy – author and socialist
  Amalie Benjamin – journalist, The Boston Globe
  James Bennet – editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
  Elizabeth Bishop – poet (Worcester)
  Benjamin C. Bradlee – Editor-in-chief and Vice President of the Washington Post, author, journalist
  Anne Bradstreet – poet
  Joseph Breck – author, magazine editor, publisher (Medfield)
  Howard Bryant, sports journalist for ESPN
  William Cullen Bryant – poet
  Augusten Burroughs – Running with Scissors (Amherst)
  Robert Ellis Cahill – sheriff, politician, folklorist, author, some three dozen books on New England history and lore (Salem)
  John Casey – author
  Robert Cormier – author, columnist (Leominster)
  Bernard Cornwell – created Richard Sharpe (Chatham)
  Robert Creeley – poet (Arlington, Acton)
  E. E. Cummings – poet (Cambridge)
  Steve Curwood – journalist, author (Boston)
  Stephen Daye – printer
  Donald Davidson – philosopher
  Emily Dickinson – poet (Amherst)
  E. J. Dionne – liberal op-ed columnist for The Washington Post (Boston)
  W. E. B. Du Bois – author, editor, historian, The Souls of Black Folk (Great Barrington)
  Andre Dubus III – author
  Will Durant – writer, historian, philosopher (North Adams)
  Gordon Edes – sports journalist
  Dave Eggers – author
  Ralph Waldo Emerson – poet, Nature, The Transcendentalist (Concord)
  Dan Fitzpatrick – author (Fairhaven, Shelburne Falls)
  George Frazier – journalist (Boston)
  Robert Frost – poet (Lawrence)
  Linda Gaboriau – dramaturg and literary translator (Boston)
  Nicholas Gage – writer and journalist (Worcester)
  John Kenneth Galbraith – author, educator, and public official
  Peter Gammons – sportswriter (Boston)
  Khalil Gibran – artist, poet, writer
  George Gilder – author, intellectual (Tyringham)
  Ellen Goodman – journalist, syndicated columnist
  Edward Gorey – author and illustrator
  Nathaniel Hawthorne – author, The Scarlet Letter (Salem)
  Nat Hentoff – historian, novelist, music critic (Boston)
  George V. Higgins – columnist, author, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  M. E. Hirsh – novelist
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. – poet and essayist (Cambridge)
  Helen Maria Hunt Jackson – author
  Sebastian Junger – author, journalist
  Janice Kaplan – novelist, magazine editor
  Marina Keegan – author, playwright (Wayland)
  Jack Kerouac – author, On the Road (Lowell)
  Ronald Kessler – journalist, author, In the President's Secret Service (Belmont)
  Richard Kindleberger – reporter, editor, The Boston Globe (Lincoln)
  Peter King – sportswriter, author
  Jonathan Kozol – author, educator, activist
  Stanley Kunitz – poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (Worcester)
  Peter Laird – comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Timothy Leary – psychologist, author, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (Springfield)
  Dennis Lehane – author
  Mark Leibovich – journalist and author, The New Imperialists (Boston)
  Henry Cabot Lodge – author and public official
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) – author
  Amy Lowell – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
  James Russell Lowell – poet (Fireside Poets)
  Robert Lowell – poet
  Michael Patrick MacDonald – author, activist, All Souls (South Boston)
  William Manchester – author and biographer
  William Marston – comic book writer, co-created Wonder Woman
  Tony Massarotti – sportswriter, The Boston Globe (Waltham)
  Stephen McCauley – The Object of My Affection (Woburn)
  Will McDonough – sportswriter for the Boston Globe (South Boston)
  Eileen McNamara – columnist, The Boston Globe (Cambridge)
  Susan Minot – novelist, short story writer (Boston, Manchester)
  Robin Moore – author, The Green Berets (Boston)
  Orson Desaix Munn – publisher of Scientific American (Monson)
  Marvin Olasky – author, editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine
  Charles Olson – poet (Worcester)
  Robert B. Parker – author (Springfield)
  Bliss Perry – literary critic, writer, edito
caption: Emily Dickinson
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