Collection of intellectuals
今天偶发奇想，决定拜访文化名人，科学家，艺术家故居，写一个随感系列，或是叶公好龙系列，就从麻州开始吧。。。先烈个李斯特：
Literature
- Louisa May Alcott, author
- Horatio Alger, author
- Elizabeth Bishop, poet
- Anne Bradstreet, poet
- William Cullen Bryant, poet
- Stephen Daye, printer
- Emily Dickinson, poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
- John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, author and illustrator
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
- Jack Kerouac, author
- Stanley Kunitz, poet
- Peter Laird, Comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
- Charles Olson, poet
- Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist
- Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet
- Daniel Scott (writer), author
- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
- Edith Wharton, author
- John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
- Jane Yolen, author
- Mark Shasha, author
Authors and Poets
- Louisa May Alcott, Concord (Little Women)
- Elizabeth Bishop, Worcester (poet)
- Augusten Burroughs, Amherst (Running with Scissors)
- Robert Ellis Cahill, Salem (Three dozen books on New England History and Lore)
- E.E. Cummings, Cambridge (poet)
- Emily Dickinson, Amherst (poet)
- W. E. B. Du Bois, Great Barrington (The Souls of Black Folk)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord (Nature, The Transcendentalist)
- Robert Frost, Lawrence (poet)
- Nicholas Gage, Worcester writer and journalist
- Theodor Geisel, Springfield (the Dr. Seuss books)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem (The Scarlet Letter)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Cambridge (poet)
- Jack Kerouac, Lowell (On the Road)
- Stanley Kunitz, Worcester—Poet Laureate of the United States
- Timothy Leary, Springfield (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)
- Michael Patrick MacDonald, South Boston (All Souls)
- Stephen McCauley, Woburn (The Object of My Affection)
- Charles Olson, Worcester (poet)
- Sylvia Plath, Boston (The Bell Jar)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Boston ("The Raven")
- Henry David Thoreau, Concord (Walden)
- George Santayana, Boston (The Life of Reason)
- Daniel Scott (writer), Braintree (Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount)
- Anne Sexton, Newton (poet)
- Michelle Tea, Chelsea (Rent Girl)
- Thomas Paine, (Common Sense)
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Concord (In the forests of the night, Demon in my View)
- Bernard Cornwell, Chatham (Richard Sharpe (fictional character))
Science
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Luther Burbank, horticulturist
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
- Robert Goddard, inventor
- Elias Howe, inventor
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
- Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
- Eli Whitney, inventor
- William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician, first successful public demonstration of an inhalation anesthetic
Artists
- Frank Weston Benson, painter
- John Singleton Copley, painter
- Thomas Dewing, painter
- Childe Hassam, painter
- Winslow Homer, painter
- Fitzhugh Lane, painter
- Willard Metcalf, painter
- Robert Reid, painter
- Norman Rockwell, artist
- Paul Ryan, cartoonist
- Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter
- Edward Simmons, painter
- Frank Stella, artist
- Edmund Charles Tarbell, painter
- Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
- Mark Shasha, painter, author
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