Literary Library

William Cooper Nell

December 16, 1816 - May 25, 1874African-American abolitionist, journalist, publisher and writerAuthor of "Services of Colored Americans in the War...

Henry Timrod

December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867American poet, lawyer, teacher, editor and correspondentHis poems include "Katie", "Ethnogenesis", "A Call to Ar...

George Saunders

December 2, 1958 - American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books and novels and journalist and professorAuthor of "Lincoln ...

Suzanne Lebsock

December 1, 1949 - American author and historianAuthor of "The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784 - 1860", "Virg...

Margaret Mitchell

November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949American novelist and journalistAuthor of "Gone With the Wind" (for which she won the National Book Award for Mo...