Rhode Island Authors: E - H

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

— E —

Earle, (Mary) Alice Morse (1853?-1911)
RI:na / AG:nf, b, j / SN: 1
Child Life in Colonial Days (11 books on colonial life)

Eddy, Clifford M. (1868-1967)
RI:BP / AG:na / SN: 4
Sign of the Dragon

Eichenberg, Fritz (1901- )
RI:F / AG:v, n,f,p / SN:2
Art of the Print (1976); Endangered Species and Other Fables With a Twist, 1979 (1980 National Book Award nomination)

Elkins, Charlotte and Aaron
RI:na / AG: f / SN: 3
Nasty Breaks (Block Island mystery)

Elliott, Maud Howe (1854-1948)
RI:LDN/ AG:nf, b / SN:1,4,7,8,36
Lord Byron's Helmet (Pulitzer Prize for biography); Julia Ward Howe: 1919-1916 (1916); Three Generations (1923); This Was My Newport (1944). Daughter of Julia Ward Howe.

Ellis, Mark1
RI:L / AG:nf / SN: 4,17
Outlanders and Deathlands series

Emma, Gloria A.
RI:LP/ AG:nf / SN: 3,5
Davisville and the Seabees, co-author Walter K. Schroder, 1999

— F —

Falcone, Joseph D. (1924- )
RI:BPL / AG:nf / SN:2
How to Design, Build, Remodel and Maintain Your Home (1978)

Farrelly, Peter (1956- )
RI: Pawtucket, Garrington / AG:f,sw,h / SN: 4,7,8,35
There's Something About Mary (1996 screenplay set in Woonsocket, co-author Robert Farley; movie); Federal Hill; American Buffalo; Dumb and Dumber (set in Warwick); Outside Providence (1988, novel, set in Warwick); The Comedy Writer (1998); Kingpin (1996,set in Newport) Me, Myself and Irene (set in Jamestown underproduction, tba release date: 2000).

Farrelley, Robert "Bobby"
RI:Pawtucket / AG:f,sw,h,n / SN:3,5
Outside Providence (See: Peter Farrelly above for movie credits)

Fielders, Thomas B.4
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:4
Block Island Fact and Fancy

Flannery, Fr. Edward Hugh (1912- )2,7
RI:BP / AG:e, nf
Anguish of the Jews (1965); The Face of Sin (1966); The Holocaust: its Meaning for Christians and Jews (1977); Essay on Christian Philosophy

Floyd, Virginia1
RI:F / AG:nf,b / SN:2
Eugene O'Neill at Work (1979)

Ford, Leslie
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Invitation to Murder (set in Newport)

Foss, Samuel Walter
RI:D,P / AG:p,e / SN: 4,28
The House by the Side of the Road; an early syndicated poetry column.

Franklin, James (1698-1734)
RI:LN / AG:nf / SN:7
Brother of Benjamin Franklin who introduced printing press to Newport; published first Rhode Island newspaper: Rhode Island Gazette (1732); published Poor Robin's Almanac (1726). James Franklin II founded second RI Newspaper: Newport Mercury, 1758

Friendly, Fred (1915-1998)
(b. Ferdinand J. Wachenheimer)
RI:L,P / AG:br,nf / SN: 2,7,8,35
Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control (1967); The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, the First Amendment (1976); television producer with Edward R. Murrow, oral history 1932-1945,1938, Footprints in the Sands of Time, I Can Hear It Now.

— G —

Gallagher, Matthew P. (1919- )
RI:B,P / LAG:nf / SN:2
The Soviet History of World War II: Myths, Memories, and Realities (1963); The Soviet Union and Arms Control: A Superpower Dilemma (1970)

Gander, Forrest (1956- )
RI: L-Barrington / AG:p,e / SN: 7,11,35,37
Rush to the Lake (1988); Deeds of Utmost Kindness (1994); Science and Steepleflower (1998). Co-editor with C.D. Wright: Lost Roads Publishers. Harvard University professor.

Gann, Mary Lee
RI:L-Jamestown / AG:nf / SN:4
A Yankee Jeffersonian

Gannon, Tom
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:11
Rhode Island an Explorer's Guide (1955, co-author Phyllis Meras)

Garreau, Joel (1946- )
RI:B-Pawtucket / AG:nf,e,v / SN:2
The Nine Nations of North America (1981)

Garzilli, Enrico
RI:LP / AG:pw / SN:54
The Smart Set (1999 musical)

Gavan, Terrence
RI:L / AG:na / SN:17
The Barons of Newport

Gerson, Nowel (see Vaughan, Carter A.)

Gilbert, Vanessa (1970- )
RI:BP, LP / AG:pw / SN:7
The Lunchcart Circus (1996); The Phrenologist's Dream (1998) with co-author, Jeremy Woodward

Gilden K.B. (Pseudonym: Bert with wife)
RI:L / AG:f / SN:4
Hurry Sundown

Goddard, William(1740-1817)
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7,36
Founded first Providence newspaper: Providence Gazette and Country Journal (1762-1795)

Godfrey, John Trevor (1922-1958)
RI: L-Woonsocket / AG:j / SN:4
The Look of Eagles (1958)

Gordon, Esther Saranga (1935- )
RI: F, L-Ashaway / AG:nf / SN:1
If an Auk Could Talk; There Really was a Dodo

Gourse, Roberta Leslie (1939- )7
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:7
With Gall and Honey (1961)

Graham, Fr. Dom Aelred. (1907- )
RI:L-Portsmouth / AG:nf / SN:7
Zen Catholicism (1963)

Grebstein, Sheldo Norman (1928- )
RI:BP / AG:b / SN:7
Sinclair Lewis (1962); John O-Hara (1964); Hemingway's Craft (1973)

Green, Frances Harriet (1805-1878)
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:7
Elleanor Eldridge (1843,1971); Might and Right (1844)

Greenberg, Selig (1904- )
RI:F / AG:nf / SN:2
The Troubled Calling: Crises in the Medical Establishment (1965); The Quality of Mercy: A Report on the Critical Condition of Hospital Care in America (1971)

Greenan, Russell
RI:na / AG:na / SN:3
Keepers (Block Island suspense, 1978)

Gunter, Archibald Clavering (c.1895)
RI:L-Narragansett / AG:na / SN:4
My Japanese Prince

Gutsteiin, Morris A.
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:4
The Jews in Newport

— H —

Hackett, Walter
RI:BP / AG:sw / SN:11
The Swans of Bally Castle

Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909)
RI:S-Matunuck / AG:f / SN:4
The Man Without a Country

Hall, Henry Marion ( -1963)
RI:N,D-Newport / AG:nf / SN:4
Bird books; nephew of Maude Howe Elliott

Hall, Rosalys
RI:L,N / AG:na / SN:4
Animal Hide and Seek; Seven for St. Nicholas

Harleman, Ann (1945- )
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:7,8
Happiness (1993); Bitter Lake (1996)

Harper, Michael S. (1938- )
RI:F,P / AG:p,e / SN: 2,7,8
Dear John, Dear Coltrane (1970); The first Rhode Island Poet Laureate; Images of Kin: New and Selected (1977); Honorable Amendments (1995)

Harte, Bret (c.1797)
RI: L, N / AG:p / SN:4,26
A Newport Romance; A Grey-port Legend

Hawkes, John (1938- )
RI:F,P / AG:f,sw,h / SN:2,8
Travesty (1976); The Passion Artist (1979)

Hawkes, John (1925-1998)
RI:L,P / AG:f / SN:7,8
The Lime Twig (1961); Second Skin (1963); Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse (1993)

Hay, John Milton (1838-1905)
RI:L,P / AG:nf,f / SN:7
Secretary to Abraham Lincoln and secretary of state for McKinley and Roosevelt. Pike County Ballads (1871); The Bread-Winners (1883); Abraham Lincoln: A History (1899); The Blood Seedling and Other Tales (posthumous edition 1972)

Hazard, Caroline (1856-1945)
RI:B / AG:nf / SN: 1,4,7
College Tom (1893); Anchors of Tradition (1924); Threads from the Distaff of History and Contemplation; Precious Heritage (1929); Rhode Island Tales

Hazard, Rowland Gibson(1801-1888)
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:7
Language: its Connexion with the Presient Condition and Future Prospects of Man (1836); Essay on Language and Other Essays and Addresses (1880)

Hazard, Thomas Robinson(1797-1886)
RI:B-So. Kingstown, L-Narragansett, L-Portsmouth / AG:nf / SN:4,7
Recollections of Olden Times (1879); Johnny-Cake Papers (Rhode Island history, 1882, 1915)

Hemenway, Sarah
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:5

Herzog, Arthur
RI:na / AG:f / SN:3
Earthsound (1975)

Hewitt, Jean (Daphne White) (1925- )
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:1
Author of eight cookbooks (Family Circle & NY Times)

Hickox, Charles9
RI:L-Ashaway / AG:ng / SN:9
Walks in the Water Shed (regional book)

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
RI:SN / AG:e,f,nf / SN: 4,7,26
Oldport Romance (1869); Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870); Oldport Days (1873); Editor of Emily Dickenson's poems (1890-91)

Hlyinsky, Dennis (1952- )
RI:LP / AG:na / SN:7
Cement Shoes (1999)

Hoffman, Andrew Jay (1956- )
RI:BP, Pawtucket / AG:f,b,nf / SN: 7,8,35
Beehive (1992); Sleepers Wake; Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1997)

Hogan, Michael (1943- )
RI:BN / AG:p / SN:7
Letters for My Son (1975); Rust (1977) A Lion at a Cocktail Party (1978)

Holcomb, Sylvia D. (Tourville)
RI:L / AG:f / SN:4
The Fortress Within (1945)

Honig, Edwin (1919- )
RI:F,P / AG:p / SN: 2,7
Four Springs (1972); Survivals (1965); Interrupted Praise (1983); The Imminence of Love 1962-92 (1993). Translator and founding editor of Cooper Beech Press; knighted by governments of Spain and Portugal. Translator: Lorca, Cervantes, Pessoa, Lopez de Vega, and Calderon

Hood, Ann (1956- )
RI:B,LP / AG:f / SN: 4,7,8,11,35,75
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (1987); Places to Stay the Night (1994); Ruby; The Properties of Water (1995, East Essex Setting is Warwick);Waiting to Vanish (1988); Something Blue; Three-Legged Horse

Hopf, John T.
RI:L / AG:n,f,v / SN:11
Rhode Island, The Ocean State (photo-journal)

Hopkins, John Christian (1960- )
RI:L-Westerly / AG:nf,p,h / SN: 11,61
Forthcoming books: poetry and columns for The Westerly Sun

Hopkins, Stephen (1707-1785)
RI:B-Scituate / AG:nf / SN:7
The Rights of Colonies Examined (1765); Declaration of Independence signer

Hopp, Gary (1956- )
RI:B-E.Greenwich, L-Warwick / AG:nf / SN:55
Follow the Children (for 4-8th grade). Founder Best Friends of the Children organization.

Houston, James (1921- )
RI:na / AG:f / SN:2
Tikta'Liktak (1965); Akavak (1968). Eskimo life. American Library Association Award (1966); American Indian and Eskimo Culture Foundation Award

Howe, George Locke (1898-1977)
RI:L-Bristol / AG:nf / SN:4,7
Mount Hope: A New England Chronicle; Slaves Cottage (1935); Call It Treason (1949)

Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
RI:SN,D / AG:nf,b,p / SN: 1,7,11,21,25,36,49
Lyrics for Battle Hymn of the Republic; Passion Flowers (1853); Reminiscences (1899); From Sunset Ridge; Margaret Fuller. Preached in Newport Churches.

Howe, Mark A. DeWolfe (1864-1960)RI:B-Bristol / AG:b,e / SN:4,7
Barrett Wendell and His Letters (Pulitzer Prize); William Cullen Bryant (1897); Edgar Allen Poe (1897); Bristol, Rhode Island, A town Biography (1930)

Hughes, Rupert
RI:na / AG:fb / SN:3
Life of Eliza Jumel Burr set in Providence

Susan Huetteman is a retired teacher from Rhode Island.

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