The Baltimore Literary Heritage Project

Baltimore authors list - genre order

FICTION

• James M. Cain
• John Dos Passos
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Dashiell Hammett
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Barry Levinson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Leon Uris
• John Waters

NONFICTION

• Russell Baker
• Frank DeFord
• Frederick Douglass
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Edith Hamilton
• Murray Kempton
• Walter Lord
• H.L. Mencken
• Emily Post
• Upton Sinclair

POETRY

• Countee Cullen
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Billie Holiday
• Francis Scott Key
• Sidney Lanier
• Ogden Nash
• Frank O'Hara
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Dudley Randall
• James Ryder Randall
• Lizette Woodworth Reese
• Adrienne Rich
• Karl Shapiro
• Gertrude Stein

OTHER

• Barry Levinson
• Otto Mergenthaler
• Christopher Morley
• John Waters