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Washington Irving
Washington Irving was born on April 3rd, 1783,in New York, the eleventh child in his family, and was named after President George Washington. He was known as a child to be mischievous and snuck out often, much to his patents' frustration, as he was born sickly. He went on to write stories that have now become ingrained in popular culture, such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and "Rip Van Winkle," which received positive reviews from other authors, such as Charles Dickens and Lord Byron. -
James Fenimore Cooper
James Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in New Jersey. He went to Yale College in 1803, but was expelled, and began working as a sailor on a merchant ship. He joined the Navy in 1808, and it was during his service that he began to think of himself as a writer. After we resigned from the Navy, he married and had seven children with his wife, Susan Augusta DeLancey. In 1826 Cooper published his now famous book, The Last of the Mohicans. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Massachusetts. He harbored lingering guilt for the role his own grandfather played in the Salem Witch trials, which became a theme in many of his stories. He attended college at Bowdin College in main, along with future President Franklin Pierce. He showed no interest in entering a more traditional occupation, already writing his own short stories, many of which were published in magazines. -
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many of which were published in magazines. He wrote now famous books, such as The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter, as well as a biography of President Pierce. The same year that The House of the Seven Gables was published, Herman Melville dedicated his own book, Moby Dick, to the author.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and is one of the most well known authors in American history. He was plagued by tragedy his whole life, as his parents dies before he was three, and it stuck with him, as he became known for his dark, and tormented works. -
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The cause of his death is as of now, unknown, and there are many conflicting reports, stories, and theories about the events leading up to his death. Some sources say he died from alcoholism, while others claim murder, and still others attribute various diseases to his death.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (2)
<She wrote her famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which attracted a large amount of attention, and published it in 1853.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. She was raise believing heavily in the importance of education for everyone, a belief shared y her father, a Calvinist preacher. She and her father were also both well known for speaking out against slavery, and she witnessed the brutalities of slavery first hand when she moved to Cincinnati, on the border with Kentucky, which was a slave state. -
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Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglass, born in February 1818, wrote three autobiographies during his lifetime, and was a leader in the abolitionist movement. He was born a slave, and in 1838, escaped by forging a free man's papers, travelling to the state of New York under the guise of a sailor. He went on to write his autobiographies, including the now famous My Bondage and my Freedom.
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Herman Melville
Born on August 1, 1819 in New York, Herman Melville went to school at the Albany Classical School for only a year before returning to work on his uncle's farm in Massachusetts. After that he held a string of unsatisfying jobs, before setting out on a whaling ship. He married Elizabeth Shaw, and had four children with her, and three years later moved to their home for the next thirteen years in Pittsfield Massachusetts. -
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More It was at this house that he met Nathaniel Hawthorne, who he dedicated the book he wrote, Moby Dick to.
