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)
