American Renaissance Writers

The following is a list of American Renaissance writers, according to the book ‘Writers of the American Renaissance’:

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 – 1888)

Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888)

William Apess (1798 – 1839)

Robert Montgomery Bird (1806 – 1854)

William Wells Brown (unknown – 1884)

William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878)

Alice Cary (1820 – 1871)

Phoebe Cary (1824 – 1871)

William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842)

Caroline Chesebro’ (1825 – 1873)

Lydia Maria Child (1802 – 1880)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)

Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813 – 1892)

Maria Susanna Cummins (1827 – 1866)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831 – 1910)

Martin Robinson Delany (1812 – 1885)

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895)

Emma Catherine Embury (1806 – 1863)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Fanny Fern [Sarah Willis Parton] (1811 – 1872)

Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850)

William Lloyd Garrison (1805 – 1879)

Caroline Howard Gilman (1794 – 1888)

Grace Greenwood [Sarah Jane Lippincott] (1823 – 1904)

Angeline Grimke (1805 – 1879)

Charlotte L. Forten Grimke (1879 – 1914)

Sarah Grimke (1792 – 1873)

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 – 1879)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825 – 1911)

George Washington Harris (1814 – 1869)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)

Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800 – 1856)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 – 1894)

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812 – 1848)

Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910)

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 – 1897)

Sylvester Judd (1813 – 1853)

Caroline M. Kirkland (1801 – 1864)

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

George Lippard (1822 – 1854)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790 – 1870)

James Russell Lowell (1819 – 1891)

Maria Jane McIntosh (1803 – 1878)

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)

Elizabeth Oaks Smith (1806 – 1893)

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811 – 1850)

Theodore Parker (1810 – 1860)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815 – 1852)

Edgar Allen Poe (1809 – 1849)

James Redpath (1833 – 1891)

John Rollin Ridge (1827 – 1867)

Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789 – 1867)

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791 – 1865)

William Gilmore Simms (1806 – 1870)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902)

Maria W. Stewart (1803 – 1879)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)

Bayard Taylor (1825 – 1878)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815 – 1878)

Henry Timrod (1828 – 1867)

Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883)

Jones Very (1813 – 1880)

Susan Warner (1819 – 1885)

Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1811 – 1852)

James Monroe Whitfield (1822 – 1871)

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803 – 1878)

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 1892)

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806 – 1867)

Harriet E. Wilson (1825 – 1863)