(A select and growing list)
Bronson Alcott & Louisa May Alcott
Robert Montgomery Bird
Charles Brockden Brown
Pearl S. Buck
Charles Dickens
- Dickens Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
- Dickens and Eastern State Penitentiary
Benjamin Franklin
Philip Freneau
William Gardner Smith
David Goodis
George Lippard
- Lippard at the Library Company of Philadelphia
- Lippard, Quaker City (The Monks of Monk’s Hall), and Penn’s Landing
Shaun McBride
Tom McHale
John McIntyre
James Michener
Silas Weir Mitchell (“Dr. Quiet”)
Christopher Morely
Lucretia Mott
Thomas Paine
Edgar Allan Poe
- Gimbel Special Collection at The Free Library of Philadelphia
- The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
Richard Powell
Agnes Repplier
Sonia Sanchez
Bayard Taylor
Mark Twain
Owen Wister
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