Literary Family Trees and Famous Kin

Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

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Horatio Alger

Author

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Louis Auchincloss

Author

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Jane G. Austin

Author

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L. Frank Baum

Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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Ray Bradbury

Author of The Martian Chronicles

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William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author of Tarzan and John Carter

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Truman Capote

Author of In Cold Blood

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Lewis Carroll

Author of Alice in Wonderland

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Geoffrey Chaucer

English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales

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Agatha Christie

Murder Mystery Author

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James Fenimore Cooper

Author of Last of the Mohicans

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Noel Coward

Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter

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Stephen Crane

Author of The Red Badge of Courage

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Clarence Day

Author of Life with Father

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Charles Dickens

English Author

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Emily Dickinson

American Poet

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John Dos Passos

American Novelist

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Lizzie Doten

American Poet

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author, “Sherlock Holmes”

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John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

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T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

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Fannie Farmer

Author of original Fannie Farmer Cookbook

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author of The Great Gatsby

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Sam Walter Foss

American Poet

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Author of the Perry Mason series

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Scarlet Letter

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Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

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O. Henry

Short Story Writer

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

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Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

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Jack Kerouac

American Novelist and Poet

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Stephen King

Author of The Stand

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Louis L'Amour

Western Author

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Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

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Vachel Lindsay

American Poet

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Mrs. Jane Ermina Locke

American Poet

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Jack London

Author of “The Call of the Wild”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

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James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

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Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

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Harriet Martineau

Author of The Hour and the Man

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David McCullough

Historian, Author and TV Narrator

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Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

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James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

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Clement Clarke Moore

Author of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

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Emily Post

American Author on Etiquette

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Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

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Annie Proulx

Novelist and Short Story Writer

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Howard Pyle

Author of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

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Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

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Kristine Rolofson

Harlequin Novelist

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Sir Walter Scott

Scottish Novelist, Poet and Historian

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Upton Sinclair

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

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Francis E. Smedley

English Novelist

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Menella Bute Smedley

English Novelist and Poet

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John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Author of Treasure Island

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Lytton Strachey

Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group

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Jonathan Swift

Author of Gulliver's Travels

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Alan Taylor

Historian and Pulitzer Prize Author

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Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

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Mark Twain

Author of Tom Sawyer

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Francis H. Underwood

Founder of the Atlantic Monthly

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John Updike

Author of The Witches of Eastwick

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Anthony West

Novelist and writer for the New Yorker

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Walt Whitman

American Poet

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John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

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Laura Ingalls-Wilder

Author of Little House on the Prairie

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

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Don Winslow

Author and Screenwriter

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Constance Fenimore Woolson

Victorian Novelist and Poet

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