Rhode Island Authors: A - D
By Sue Huettman

Below is an alphabetical listing of Rhode Island authors; notations about their personal connection to the state as well as the genre in which they write; titles of the author's work (where applicable); and information on how students may obtain further information about an author. To best use this document, students should select an author and copy down the source number(s). Then go to this Rhode Island Literary Sources document to look up the source code.

RI Code (RI)	Author Genre Code (AG)
B = born in RI (town specified) D = died in RI F = faculty or teacher L = lived or worked in RI N = Newport P = Providence S = summer resident in RI c. = about/consensus na = not available	b = biographer br = broadcast e = editor f = fiction h = humorist j = juvenile na = not available nf = non fiction p = poet/lyricist pw = playwright sw = screenwriter v = visual arts

SN = source number

— A —

Adler, Joe Anne
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:14,17
STRESS: Just Chill Out

Agassiz, Alexander (1835-1910)
RI:N / AG: na / SN:4,36

Ahern, Tom (1947- )
RI:B-Foster; L-Westerly / AG:f / SN:6,7
The Capture of Trieste: Stories (1978); Hecatombs of Lake Stories (1984); The Petrus Borel Stories (1990)

Almedia, Onesimo (1946- )
RI:L / AG:pw, nf / SN:7
Portugese essayist and playwright. No Seio Desse Amargo Mar ("In the Bottom of that Bitter Sea, play, 1991); Que Nome e' Esse, O'Ne'zimo ("What Kind of Name is Nezimo? And Other Adverbs of Doubt (1994); Rio Atlantico (Atlantic River, essays, 1997)

Agassiz, Jean Louis R.
RI:N / AG:na / SN:4

Aldrich, Nelson
RI:P / AG:na / SN:4

Allen, Paul (19thcentury)
RI:P / AG:p,b / SN:4
Poetry (1801); Ed., History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark (1814)

Ammerman

AG:f / AG:na / SN:3
The Rain from God (1997 Narragansett Indian Tribe and Roger Williams relationship)

Anderson, Bern
RI:L-Newport / AG:na / SN:4
By Sea and By River (1962)

Anderson, George Kumler (1901-1980)
RI:L-Wakefield / AG:nf / SN:7
The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons (1944); The Legend of the Wandering Jew (1965)

Anderson, Eliza (1958- )
RI:L-Wakefield / AG:pw / SN:7
The Water Principle (1992,1998); The Lower Rooms (1991,1996); Mills Girls (1999)

Angell, Oliver
RI:P / AG:nf / SN:4
Angell's Union Series of Texts for Schools.

Arellano, Robert(1969- )
RI:L,P / AG:sw / SN:7
Victim of Providence (1996 film)

Arnold, Samuel Greene (1821-1880)
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:7
History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (2 vols. 1859,1860)/ RI Governor and Senator.

Aspinwall, William (17th century)
RI:L / AG:n / SN:4
Almanac (1645); and six books

Astor,John Jacob
RI:L-Newport / AG:na / SN:4
A Journey in Other Worlds (1894); built Beechwood Mansion

Auchincloss, Louis
RI: Associated with Newport / AG:f / SN:3
House of Five Talents (1960). Newport Bellevue mansion setting.

Avi (1937- )
RI:L,P / AG:j / SN: 7, 9, 11, 12
Twenty-five books including: Poppy, Romeo and Juliet together and
alive at last; Something Upstairs: a tale of ghosts (set in Providence); S.O.R. Losers; Wind catcher; Wolf rider; Bird, the frog and the light: a fable; Blue heron; Fighting ground; Poppi and Rye; Midnight Magic; The Man Who Was Poe (set in Providence 1989); True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Newbery Honor 1991); Nothing but the truth (Newbery Award 1992); The Barn (1994); Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams (1997); see also
http://www.avi-writer.com

— B —

Babbitt, Natalie (1932- )
RI:P / AG:j / SN: 7,9,12
The Search for Delicious (1969); Goody Hall (1971); Tuck
Everlasting (1987)

Bacon, Leonard (1887-1954)
RI:L-So. Kingstown / AG:p / SN: 1,4,7
TR. El Cid with Seldon Rose (1919); Ulug Beg (1923); Sunderland Capture and Other Poems (1940 Pulitzer Prize)

Bacon, Martha Sherman (1917-1981)
RI:F,DP/ AG:f,nf / SN:1
Staff at Atlantic Monthly; daughter of Leonard Bacon

Bagdikian, Ben Haig (1920- )
RI:L / AG:nf / SN: 2,7,8
Journalist-author: The Effete Conspiracy (1962); In the Midst of Plenty: The Poor in America (1964); Caged: Eight Prisoners and their Keepers (1976); The Shame of Prisons (1972), Providence Journal Correspondent

Bailey, Issac (19th century)
RI:P / AG:nf / SN:4
American Naval Biography (1815)

Bailey, Margaret Emerson (1880/5-1949)
RI:BP / AG:nf,f,b,p / SN: 1,4,7
The Wild Streak (1932); Rain Before Seven; Goodbye Proud World (1945)

Baker, Lori (1962- )
RI: LP / AG:f / SN:7
Crazy Water (1996); Minor Archeologies (1998)

Ballinger, Martha Bacon (1917-1981)
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:7
Sophia Scrooby Preserved (1968); In the Company of Clowns (1973); Moth Manor: a gothic tale (1978)

Barker, Shirley
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Strange Wives (1963, Building of Touro Synagogue)

Barnes, Maureen
RI:B,N / AG: p,pw / SN:5
Social dramatist

Barnes, Jane
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Double Lives (1981). Set in North Kingstown area.

Barrett, Leila
RI: Portsmouth / AG:f / SN:4
Pirate Perry (1959)

Barrett, Richmond B.
RI:N / AG:f,nf / SN:3,4
Truant (1944) Newport tennis setting; Good Old Summer Days

Bartlett, John Russell (1805-1886)
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:7
Progress of Ethnology (1847); Dictionary of Americanisms (1887,1950); Bibliography of Rhode Island (1864)

Beals, Carleton (1893-1979)
RI:L-Barrington / AG:nf,j / SN:7
Our Yankee Heritage, 3 vols. (1955); Colonial Rhode Island, 1970); The Nature of Revolution (1970)

Beckham, Barry (1944- )
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:3,7
My Main Mother (1960); Runner Mack (1972); Double Dunk (1981)

Beckwith, Henry L. P. (1935- )
RI:BP / AG:b / SN:2
Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts (1979)

Belmont,Perry
RI:N,D / AG:na / SN:4

Belluso, John (1969- )
RI:B-Warwick / AG:pw / SN:7
The Body of Bourne (1999); Gretty Good Time (1998,1999); The Rules of Charity (1999)

Benson, John Howard (1901-56)
RI:B-Middletown;DN / AG:nf / SN:7
The Elements of Lettering (co-author Arthus G. Carey, 1940,1950)

Berkley, George (1685-1752)
RI:N / AG:p,nf / SN:4,7,36
Philosophical writings. Westward the courses of empire takes its way; Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher; America, or the Muse's Refuge, a prophecy on the prospects of the Arts and Sciences in America.

Bernen, Robert (1928- )
RI:L-Rumbord / AG:na / SN:7
The Hills: Tales from the Blue Stacks (1983); In the Heat of the Sun (1981)

Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983)
(Edmund Joseph Michael Jr.)
RI:BP / AG:p / SN:7,8
Beat Generation poet. The Sonnets (1964); Many Happy Returns (1969); The Selected Poems (posthumous edition, 1994)

Bethel, Youlander
RI:L-Westerly / AG:p / SN:9
Poetry books

Beyea, Basil
RI:na /AG:nf / SN:3
The Golden Mistress (1975). Aaron Burr's second wife. Nortorious Eliza (1978 is sequel)

Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1834-1925)
RI:B / AG:nf / SN:7
Story of Dr. John Clarke (1915); History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, (3 vols.,1920)

Binder, Mark
RI:na / AG:f,h,V,PW / SN:10,19,22
Magazine contributor and author of cyber-novella, 1995-98: How You Destroyed the Word (Almost). Home page: http://www.markbinder.com/tableofcontents/index.htm

Bischoff, Ilse
RI:na / AG:f,b / SN:3
Proud Heritage (1949)

Blaisdell, Albert Francis
RI:P / AG:nf / SN:4
Text and school books

Blasing, Randy (1943- )
RI:L,P / AG:p,e / SN:7
The Double House of Life (1989); Graphic Scenes (1994); Poems of Nazim Hikmet (co-translator, Mutlu Blasing, 1994)

Blazer, Stuart
RI:BP, L-Adamsville / AG:p / SN:5,7,35
richochet (1983); C-O-H (1988)

Blight, James G.
RI:F, L-So.Kingstown / AG:na / SN:35
Oral historian: Legacies of the Vietnam War

Blistein, Elmer (1920-1993)
RI:B-Pawtucket / AG:nf / SN:7
The Order of Poetry (co-authors, E.H. Bloom and Charles Philbrick II, 1961); Comedy in Action (1964)

Bloom, Edward(1914- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
Samuel Johnson in Brug Street (1957); The Variety of Poetry (with Charles Philbrick II and Elmer Blistein (1964)

Bongartz, Roy, (1924-1989)
RI:BP / AG:nf,f / SN:2,7
Twelve Chases on West Ninety-Ninth Street (1965); New England Records (1978)

Booth, J. Allen
RI:N / AG:f / SN:4
Strongheart series

Bosquet, Don (1948- )
RI:B-Pawtucket / AG:h,v / SN:2,9,66
Beware of the Quahog; I Brake for Quahogs; The Quahog Walks Among Us; The New England Experience; Don Bosquet's New England; Best of the Quahog Trilogy--all out of print. The Quahog Stops Here; Quahogs Are a Girl's Best Friend; A Rhode Island Album; Don Bosquet's Next Book; Revenge of the Quahog; With William Campbell: A Workingmans Skiff; With Mark Patinkin: Rhode Island Dictionary and Rhode Island Handbook;, New England Fish Tale, Quahog State of Mind (1995); with Martha Murphy: Don Bosquet's Rhode Island Cookbook; The Don Bosquet Greeting Card Collection; His cartoons appear in Yankee Magazine and The Providence Journal Rhode Island Cookbook

Botta, Anne Charlotte (19th century)
RI:N / AG:p,nf / SN:4
Poems (1848); Handbook of Universal Literature (1860)

Botta, Vincenzo
RI:N / AG:nf / SN:4

Brellis, Dean (1924- )
c. Brelis
RI: B-Newport / AG:f, nf,br / SN:2,3,4,7,35
Network correspondent and author: My New Found Land (1963, Greek immigrant life in Newport); The Mission (1958);Face of South Vietnam (1967)

Brennan, Linda Crotta
RI:L-Coventry / AG:j / SN:9,12

Brett, Roger (1929- )
RI: B,L / AG:nf / SN:2
Temples of Illusion (1976 glimpse of Providence Opera House)

Bridenbaugh, Carl (1903- )
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:2,4,7
Cities in the Wilderness (1938,1964/1955); Cities in Revolt (1955/1965); Peter Harrison, First American Architect (1949); Early Americans (1981); Colonial America;

Briody, Thomas
RI:L / AG:f / SN:3,15,59,70
Michael Carolina mysteries set in RI:Rogue's Wager(1997); Rogue's Isles (1995) and Rogue's Justice (1996) set in Providence.

Brites, Jose' (1945- )
RI:L-Rumford / AG:f,nf / SN:7
Poems sem Poesia; imigrmantes/immidrunks; Do Ribatejo ao Ale'm-Tejo. Portuguese titles translated: Poems without Poetry (1975); Immidrunks (1984); From Ribatejo to Beyond-Tagus (1998)

Brito, Rosendo (1937- )
RI:L-East Providence / AG:p / SN:7
Hesperides and I (1966); Flight of the Swallows (1982); Wild Rain (Tr. novel), 1994

Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-83)
RI:N / AG:p / SN:4

Brown, Anne S.K.
RI:P,N / AG:b / SN:4
The Anatomy of Glory-Napoleon and His Guard (1961)

Brown, Edna Adelaide (1875- ?)
RI:na / AG:j / SN:4
When Max Came (1914); That Affair at St. Peter's (1920); Journey's End (1921)

Brown, Lee Ann
RI:P / AG:p / SN:5
Interarts dramatist

Brown, Ray
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Madame Jumel (1965, historical fiction-Aaron Burr's second wife)

Buchanan, Wiley T., Jr.
RI:N / AG:nf / SN:4
Red Carpet at the White House

Buhle, Mari Jo (1943- )
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:7
Women and American Socialism (1981); Encyclopedia of the American Left, with Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas (1990,1998); Feminism and its Discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis (1998)

Buhle, Paul (1944- )
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:7
Popular Culture in American (1987); C.L.R. James: the artist as revolutionary (1988); Tender Comrades: A backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (co-author, Patrick McGillian, 1997)

Bundy, Alison (1959- )
RI:L,P / AG:f / SN:7
A Bad Business (1985); Tale of a Good Cook (1992); Dunce Cap (1998)

Bush-Brown, Albert (1926-1994)
RI:L,P,F / AG:nf / SN:7
Louis Sullivan (1960); The Architecture of America (co-author, John E. Burchard, 1961)

Bushee, Alice Huntington
RI:L-North Smithfield / AG:nf / SN:7
Three centuries of Tirso de Molina (1939)

Butterworth, Hezekiah (c.1839-1905)
RI:B-Warren / AG:e,nf,j / SN:4,7
Zig-zag Journeys; Youth's Companion, ed.

Byrnes, Garrett Davis (1904-1985)
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:2,7
Scoop (with J.S. Hart, 1930); The Providence Journal-150 Years (with C.H. Spilman, 1980)

— C —

Cable, Mary
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Avery's Knot (1981, Historical mystery set in 1832 Providence)

Calbert, Cathleen (1955- )
RI:L-Tiverton / AG:p / SN:7
Lessons in Space (1997); Bad Judgement (1999)

Campbell, Paul(1948- )
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:2
Aurora Club: a Fifty-year History (1981); Providence: a Pictorial History (1981)

Cappello, Mary (1960- )
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:7
Night Bloom (1998)

Carey, Phoebe (?-1871)
RI:D-Newport / AG:na / SN:4
Nearer Home; One Sweetly Solemn Thought

Carla, Heidi
RI:F, L-Cranston / AG:pw / SN:5
Writing with children

Carlson, Natalie Savage (1906- )
RI:LN / AG:j / SN:4,7
Sailor's Choice (1966); The Family under the Bridge (1969); The Surprise in the Mountains (1983)

Caroselli, Remus (1916- )
RI:BP / AG:jf / SN:2
Mystery Cottage in Left Field (Set in Providence,1979). Won Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1980.

Carpenter, Esther Bernon (1848-1893)
RI:na / AG:f / SN:1
South County Neighbors

Carre, Ezekiel (17th century)
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:4
Sermons (1689-1690), French Hugenot

Carter, Betty
RI: L / AG:nf / SN:9
Historical south shore

Casey, John
RI:L / AG:f / SN: 3,11,20
Spartina (1989) set in Narragansett

Cassill, Kay (1930- )
RI: FP / AG:nf / SN:1,2
Twins: Nature's Amazing Mystery (1982); The Complete Handbook for Freelance Writers

Cassill, R.V. Ronald Verlin (1918- )
RI:F,L / AG:f / SN:2,7
Hoyt's Child (1976); Labors of Love (1980); Collected Stories (1989)

Cave, Hugh Barnett (1910-? )
RI:L-Warwick / AG:nf,f / SN:4,7
The Cross on the Drum (1958); The Witching Lands (1962); The Corpse Maker (1987). Fight in gest; We Build We Fight; PT Boat Warfare

Chandler, Tom (1949- )
RI:F,P / AG:p / SN: 7,11,35
Wingbones (1996/1997); The Sound the Moon Makes as iIt Watches (1988); One Tree Forest (1992). Awards: Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize; Pushcart Prize nominee (1998)

Chapin, Howard Millar (1887-1940)
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:4,7
Documentary History of Rhode Island (1916,1919)

Child, Richard Washburn (?-1935)
RI: DN / AG:b,e / SN:4
Il Duce with Mussolini; ed. Collyer's Weekly

Christina, Martha (1943- )
RI:L-Bristol / AG:p,e / SN:7
Outer Life: the poetry of Brendan Galvin (1991); Staying Found (1998); Ed. Ampersand Press

Clark, Geoffrey (1940- )
RI:L-Warren / AG:f / SN:7
Schooling the Spirit (1993); Jackdog Summer (1996); All the Way Home (1997)

Clark, Mary Higgins
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Moonlight Becomes You (1996, set in Newport)

Clough, Benjamin Crocker (1888-1975)
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
The American Imagination at Work (1947); Two Centuries of Brown Verse, 1764-1964 (ed. with Charles H. Philbrick II and Sharon O. Brown, 1965)

Coale, Sam (1943- )
RI:L / AG:pw,b / SN:2
John Cheever (1977)

Cohan, George M. (1878-1942)
RI:BP / AG:nf,pw / SN:7,8
Twenty Years on Broadway (1924); vaudevillian performer known as "America's First Actor" and presidential medal recipient. Famous patriotic songs: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Grand Old Flag, and Over There. Give My Regards To Broadway and biographical Yankee Doodle Dandy movies.

Conley, Patrick T. (1938- )
RI:LP,F / AG:nf / SN:2,35
Author of 15 books on Rhode Island and US History (Constitution and Bill of Rights); Catholicism in Rhode Island (1976); Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1776-1841 (1977);lawyer, teacher, and National Senior Games Hall of Fame for javelin '99.

Cook, Albert Spaulding (1925-1998)
RI:LP / AG:p,nf / SN:7
Reasons for Waking (1995); The Sometime Master (1998). Translator of Homer's The Odyssey (1967)

Coolidge, Clark (1939- )
RI:BP / AG:p / SN:7
The Crystal Text (1995); At Egypt (1998); The Book of During (1991)

Cooney, Ralph Bolton
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:4

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:4,7,46,48,49,50,52,71
Red Rover (Old Stone Mill in Newport,1827); The Pathfinder (1840); The Deerslayer (1841)

Cooper, Michele F. (1941- )
RI:LN-Portsmouth / AG:pw,p,f,nf,e / SN:5,7
The Urban Reader (with S.K.Hill, 1971); The Freshman Writer (1971). Founding editor of The New England Review. Founder Crow's Nest: Wisdom of Elderwoman

Coover, Robert (1932- )
RI:L,F / AG:f,pw / SN:7,8,40
The Origin of the Brunists; Briar Rose; Ghost Town; The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968); The Public Burning (1977); Pinocchio in Venice (1991)

Corbett, Scott (1913- )
RI:LP / AG:f,nf,j / SN: 2,7
The Reluctant Landlord (1950) became movie-"Love Nest." The Lemonade Trick (1960); Here Lies the Body (1974); Bridges (1978); Home Computers:(1980); Disappearing Dog Trick; Grave Doubts; Hangman's Ghost Trick

Cormack, Maribelle (c.1920-1984 )
RI:LP / AG:j,jb,f / SN:2,4,7
Star-crossed Woman (1961, about 1820's Providence seamen);Imotep, Builder in Stone (1965); A Recruit for Abe Lincoln (1942)

Cotter, Betty J.(1960- )
RI: Wakefield / AG:nf / SN:9
Wakefield (1997); Peace Dale (1998); Kingston (1999); South Shore Rhode Island, A Pictorial History (1999)

Crawford, F. Marion
RI: L-Newport / AG:f / SN:4
Oak Glen. Lived with Aunt, Julia Ward Howe

Crowley, Jean Joy
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:9
A Certain Kind of Love

Cronauer, Adrian
RI:na /AG:f / SN:9
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)

Curly, Bob
Also seen as Curley
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:14,17
Rhode Island: Off the Beaten Path

Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
RI:BP,N / AG:nf,e / SN:4,7
Potiphar Papers (1854); Literary and Social Essays (1894, 1968). Editor of Harper's Weekly, during Civil War.

— D —

D'Agostino, Fr. Lorenzo (1917- )
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:7
Dolores (1964); Mara and the Priest (1975)

Damon, Samuel Foster (1893-1971)
RI:F,LP / AG:b,p / SN:4,7
William Blake (1924,1947); Amy Lowell (1935); A Blake Dictionary (1965). Curator of Harris Collection of American Poetry, 1929-63 at Brown University.

Daniels, Les (1943- )
RI:L / AG:f / SN:2
The Black Castle (1978, supernatural fiction).

Davey, Ray
RI:L / AG:p / SN:35
Providence's newly designated Poet Laureate and author of Papa's Coffee Cup. Founder Projective Verse, Inc. for junior and senior high school poets.

Day, Chon
RI:L-Westerly / AG:h,vf / SN:4
Brother Sebastian books

Dejong, David Cornel (1905-1967)
RI:LP, D-Barrington / AG:f / SN:4,7
Belly Fulla Straw (1934); Benefit Street (1942); The Desperate Children (1969)

Delinsky, Barbara
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Heart of the Night (1989) set in Newport and Providence.

Di,Xue(1957- )
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:7
Flames (1995); Heart into Soil (1998)

Di Flippo, Paul (1954- )
RI:B,LP / AG:f / SN:7
Fractal Paisleys (1997); Ribofunk (1996); Lost Pages (1998)

Dinolfo, Eileen
RI:F,L-North Kingstown / AG:p / SN:5
Exploratory writings

Dodd, Susan (1946- )
RI:L-Westerly / AG:f / SN:7
Old Wive's Tales (1984); No Earthly Notion (1986); The Mourners Bench (1998)

Dolbier, Maurice Wyman (1912- )
RI:LP / AG:br,nf,pw,jf,h,p / SN:2,4,7
Nowhere near Everest (1955); Magic Shop (j,1946); Benjy Boone (1967); and Mortal Gods (1971). Theatrical journalist and Providence Journal editor

Donegan, Nancy (1933- )
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:7
The Forked Rivers (1989)

Donovan, Karen (1956)
RI:BP,F,L-E.Providence / AG:p / SN:7,35
Fugitive Red (1999, Juniper Prize); Double Portion Church; hand-made books for Oak City Press; nature poet

Dorian, Marguerite Taussig
RI:LP / AG:na / SN:7
A Ride on the Milky Way (1967); The Year of the Waterbearer (1976); The Seasons (1977)

Downing, Antoniette Forrester (c.1967)
RI:P / AG:nf / SN:1,2,4
Early Homes of Rhode Island (1937); The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915 written with Vincent J. Scully (1952,1967)

Duhamel, Denise (1962- )
RI:BP,L / AG:p / SN:7
How the Sky Fell (1996); Girl Soldier (1996); Kinky (1997)

Dunkelman, Mark
RI:L / AG:na / SN:35
Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier

Durfee, Fanny A. (1830-1912)
RI:na / AG:na / SN:7
Echoes from Tiverton (1909)

Dutton, Charles J. (1888-1964)
RI:L-Little Compton / AG:f / SN:4
Mystery writer

Susan Huetteman is a retired teacher from Rhode Island.

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