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Authors and Poets

These authors, poets and journalists have associations with Michigan, but were not born here.

Name Michigan Connection Birthplace Date
Harriette Simpson Arnow Wrote The Dollmaker, other novels; lived near Ann Arbor Wayne County, KY 1908-1986
L. Frank Baum Author of The Wizard of Oz and other books; spent his summers near Holland (MI) from 1898 to 1910 New York 1856-1919
Charles M. Baxter Professor at Wayne State University and University of Michigan; National Book Award nomination (2000) Minneapolis, MN 1947
Earl Clifton Beck Compiler of lumberjack and Great Lakes region stories and songs; died in Farmington Hills, MI Hickman, NE 1891-1977
Lilian Jackson Braun Novelist ("The Cat Who . . ." books), former Detroit Free Press writer and "Living" section editor, lived in Detroit and Thumb area for many years Massachusetts 1916?
Caroline Bartlett Crane Kalamazoo minister, social and sanitary surveyor and writer Wisconsin 1858-1935
Meindert DeJong Lived in Grand Rapids; won Newbery Medal in 1955 for The Wheel on the School Wierum, Netherlands 1906-?
Alice Fulton Poet;  Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  Troy, NY 1952
Edgar A. Guest Detroit Free Press writer, humorist Birmingham, England 1881-1959
Ernest Hemingway Novelist, writer of short stories and poems, correspondent; spent summers at Walloon Lake Oak Park, IL 1899-1961
Caroline Kirkland Michigan resident, 1835-43; she and husband founded Pinckney New York City 1801-1864
Elmore "Dutch" Leonard Lives and writes in Detroit New Orleans 1925
Joyce Carol Oates Lived in Detroit from 1962 to 1968 where she wrote Them, a novel set in Detroit, and taught at the University of Detroit near Lockport, NY 1938
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Indian agent, ethnographer, author of The Myth of Hiawatha and others Albany County, NY 1793-1864
Helen Thomas “First Lady of the Press,” United Press International White House bureau chief; graduated from Detroit public schools and Wayne State University Winchester, KY 1920

Updated 06/16/2006

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