page_title: List of people from Maryland
section_title: Authors, including journalists
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Maryland / Authors, including journalists
caption_attribution_description: English: Tom Clancy at Burns Library, Boston College. Taken by Gary Wayne Gilbert.
context_page_description: The following are some notable people from the American state of Maryland, listed by their field of endeavor. This list may not include Federal officials and members of the United States Congress who live in Maryland but are not actual natives.
context_section_description: John Barth, author
  Carl Bernstein, journalist and author
  Hanne Blank, author
  Ann Brashares, author
  Pat Brown, author, criminal profiler
  Mindie Burgoyne, author and businessperson
  Erin Burnett, journalist and CNN anchor
  James M. Cain, journalist and author
  Kiran Chetry, journalist
  Connie Chung, television journalist
  Tom Clancy, author
  Lucille Clifton, poet
  Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer, journalist
  Mark Davis, columnist, radio talk show host
  Frank Deford, journalist and author
  Matt Drudge, journalist, radio talk show host
  Roland Flint, poet
  Courtney Friel, entertainment reporter for Fox News
  Marianne Githens, political scientist, feminist, author, and professor
  Jesse Glass, poet, folklorist
  Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and reporter
  Sara Haardt, author and professor
  Mary Downing Hahn, author
  Dashiell Hammett, author
  James Alexander Henshall, author
  Karen Hesse, author
  Nancy Hubbard, author and business professor
  Zora Neale Hurston, author
  Nina Kasniunas, political scientist, author, and professor
  Sophie Kerr, author
  Michael Kimball, author
  Cliff Kincaid, investigative journalist
  Gayle King, editor
  Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN football analyst
  Munro Leaf, children's author
  Rick Leventhal, correspondent for Fox News
  Walter Lord, author
  H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic
  Emily J. Miller, senior editor of Washington Times opinion pages
  Frank Miller, writer and artist
  Ogden Nash, humorous poet
  Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright and screenwriter
  Edgar Allan Poe, poet, writer, and literary critic
  Adrienne Rich, poet and feminist
  Nora Roberts, author
  Thomas Roberts, news anchor for MSNBC
  John Thomas Scharf, author, historian, lawyer, politician, and Confederate soldier and sailor
  Karl Shapiro, poet
  Laura Amy Schlitz, children's literature author
  Upton Sinclair, author
  Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic
  Bud Sparhawk, science fiction author
  John Steadman, sportswriter
  Anne Tyler, author
  Sanford J. Ungar, journalist and Goucher College president emeritus
  Leon Uris, author
  Scott Van Pelt, ESPN anchor and radio host
  Fredricka Whitfield, CNN reporter and anchor
  Michael Wilbon, ESPN personality (Pardon the Interruption) and The Washington Post sports columnist
  James Wolcott, journalist, social critic
caption: Tom Clancy
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