Writers of the American Renaissance

Name these poets, fiction writers, and thinkers who helped the US reach "its first maturity" between 1830 and 1865 (give or take).

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Writer	Lived	Birthplace	Representative Work
Washington Irving	1783-1859	New York, NY	"Rip Van Winkle" (short story)
James Fenimore Cooper	1789-1851	Burlington, NJ	Leatherstocking Tales (story collection)
William Cullen Bryant	1794-1878	Cummington, MA	"Thanatopsis" (poem)
Sojourner Truth	1797-1883	Rifton, NY	"Ain't I a Woman?" (speech)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803-1882	Boston, MA	"Self-Reliance" (essay)
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804-1864	Salem, MA	The House of the Seven Gables (novel)
William Lloyd Garrison	1805-1879	Newburyport, MA	"The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry" (editorial)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807-1882	Portland, ME	The Song of Hiawatha (epic poem)
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807-1892	Haverhill, MA	Justice and Expediency; or, Slavery Considered with a View to Its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition (pamphlet)
Edgar Allan Poe	1809-1849	Boston, MA	"The Masque of the Red Death" (short story)
Abraham Lincoln	1809-1865	Hodgenville, KY	"House Divided" (speech)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	1809-1894	Cambridge, MA	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (essay collection)
Margaret Fuller	1810-1850	Cambridge, MA	Woman in the Nineteenth Century (book-length essay)
Harriet Beecher Stowe	1811-1896	Litchfield, CT	Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel)
Harriet Jacobs	1813-1897	Edenton, NC	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (autobiography)
Henry David Thoreau	1817-1862	Concord, MA	A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers (travelogue/nature writing)
Frederick Douglass	1818-1895	Cordova, MD	"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (speech)
Herman Melville	1819-1891	New York, NY	"Bartleby the Scrivener" (short story)
Walt Whitman	1819-1892	West Hills, NY	"O Captain! My Captain!" (poem)
Emily Dickinson	1830-1886	Amherst, MA	"Because I could not stop for Death" (poem)
Louisa May Alcott	1832-1888	Germantown, PA	Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (novel)

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