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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States from 1861 until his shocking assassination in 1865 http://www.ask.com/web?q=abraham%20lincoln%20biography&askid=63e23bb2-be4e-4d81-a2f8-d320a8d706d7-0-us_gsb&kv=sdb&qsrc=999&o=10479&l=dir -
william dean
William Dean Howells (1837-1920), author, editor, and critic, was born on 1 March 1837 in Martinsville, now Martins Ferry, Ohio, the second son of eight children born to Mary Dean Howells and William Cooper Howells, a printer and publisher http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/hbio.html -
Kate Chopin
American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. http://www.katechopin.org/biography.shtml -
stephen crane
tephen Crane was an American novelist whose first book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, tells the story of a abused slum girl's descent into prostitution and her suicide. http://www.biography.com/people/stephen-crane-9260647 -
paul laurence dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who wrote verse and short stories, many of which were written in black dialect despite the fact that he felt the marketability of dialect poetry was demeaning. He was one of the first black writers to attempt to make an living from his writing, and certainly one of the first to gain national prominence http://www.biography.com/people/paul-laurence-dunbar-9281053
