What a great Top Ten Tuesday topic! I'm proud to be a Marylander, and we have some excellent authors, past and present. Here's a collection of mostly living authors from my state, including some I actually know!
Authors Who Live(d) in Maryland
- Anne Tyler--The author of The Accidental Tourist and other quintessential Baltimore novels is one of the first authors I think of. I loved The Accidental Tourist; some of her other books less so, but she's definitely an institution.
- Edgar Allen Poe--He's so associated with Baltimore that the football team is named after his most famous poem. Probably our most famous local legend.
- Adrienne Rich--Not as famous as Poe, but definitely well known and one of my favorite poets; I think it's so cool that she's also from Maryland.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates--I didn't realize he was from Maryland, but he shows up high on a lot of lists; I haven't read him yet, but he's pretty famous.
- Frederick Douglass--Shamefully, he was enslaved in Baltimore, and his account of his early life takes place there and other locations in Maryland.
- Laura Lippmann--I'm not a huge fan and haven't read a ton of her work since she writes thrillers, but she's well-known and I love that her work takes place in a number of local settings.
- Ann Brashares--I loved all of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books growing up, and I especially loved that the protagonists lived in Maryland!
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor--She wrote some classics we read in school like Shiloh and I also loved the Alice books growing up.
- Elissa Brent Weissman--She's a children's author who popped up when I searched "Maryland authors," and fun fact, I know her, we worked together one summer when her first book was just about to come out!
- Kelly Ann Jacobson--Also a Maryland author I know--I worked with her back when I taught community college. She had a couple books then, and looks like she's published more!
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Happy TTT!