Rhode Island Authors: I - M
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

— I —

Iacobbo, Karen
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:14,17,30
Vegetarian Magic

Isham, Norman Morrison (1864-1943)
RI:D-Wickford / AG:nf / SN:7
With Albert F. Brown: Early Rhode Island Houses (1895); Early American Houses (1928)

— J —

James, Henry (1811-82)
RI:LN / AG:na / SN:4
Theologian, author, and father of Henry and William

James, Henry (1843-1916)
RI:LN / AG:f / SN: 4,7,8,11,46,49,50,51
The Bostonians (1886) and Portrait of a Lady (1881) are available on Video; The Wings of the Dove (1902); The American

James, William (1842-1910)
RI:LDN / AG:nf / SN: 4,8,11,47,48,49,50,52
Philosopher and scientific psychologist.

Johnson, Brian
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:5
Poetry awarded Academy of American Poets Prize and the Arstark Memorial Award for Poetry

Johnson, Peter (1951- )
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:7
Pretty Happy! (1997); Love Poems for the Millennium (1998)

Judson, Don (1950- )
RI:BP / AG:f / SN:7
Bird-Self Accumulated (1996)

— K —

Kaplan, Hester
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:35
The Alturist (Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction); The Edge of Marriage; The White Life; Probabilities; The Altruist (2001 pub.date); works set in Providence

Kaplan, Peter (1957-1977)
Ri:BP / AG:p,e / SN: 7,35
Pourboire 16 (posthumous edition, 1978)

Kapstein, Israel J. (1904- )
RI:LP / AG:na / SN:4,7
Flying Yorkshireman (1938); Something of a Hero (1941)

Kaula, Edna (1906- )
RI:LP / AG:nf,v / SN:1,2
Series author and illustrator: The Land and People of Ethiopia (1972); The Land and People of Tanzania (1972)

Keevil, Barbara
RI:na / AG:na / SN:9
Riverside

Kellner, George
RI:F / AG:nf,v / SN:2
J. Stanley Lemons, Co-author. Providence: a Century of Greatness 1821-1932 (1981 American Association for State and Local History Merit Award); Rhode Island: the Independent State (1982)

Kertzer, David (1948- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
Ritual, Politics, and Power (1988); The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997)

King, Clarence
RI:B,N / AG:nf / SN: 4,36
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1871)

Kinnell, Galway (1927- )
RI:BP / AG:p,e / SN: 2,4,7
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-1964 (1974); Walking Down the Stairs (1978); Mortal Acts, Mortal World (1980); Selected Poems (1982) Pulitzer Prize; The Past (1985 and numerous publications in literary journals. 1983 American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Kirk, Midge
RI:L,F / AG:nf,f / SN:6
Contemporary writer, storyteller, and oral historian

Kirker, Jim
RI:L / AG:j / SN: 9,11
The Adventures of Shawn O'Malley

Klein, Maury (1939- )
RI:L-Exeter, East Greenwich / AG:nf / SN: 7,9
Historian: The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986); Life in the Civil War (1990); Days of Defiance (1997)

Knox, Caroline (1938- )
RI:F,L-Westerly / AG:nf,p / SN: 1,7
The House Party (1984); To Newfoundland (1989); Sleepers Wake (1994)

Koopman, Harry Lyman (1860-1937)
RI:LP / AG:p,nf / SN:7
The Booklover and His Books (1917); The Narragansett Country (1927); bibliographer

Kramer, Peter (1948- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7,8
Listening to Prozac (1993); Should You Leave? (1997)

Krasner, Steven
RI:L / AG:j,nf / SN:5,17
Have a Nice Nap, Humphrey. Sports writer; also writes children's books

— L —

Ladd, Joseph Brown (1764-1786)7
RI:BN / AG:p / SN:7
Poems of Aarouet (1786)

Lafarge, Christopher (1897-1956)
RI:L-Saunderstown / AG:f / SN: 4,7,49
Rock of Rhode Island (1912);Hoxsie Sells His Acres (1934); The Wilson (East Providence satire, 1941)

Lafarge, John (1835-1910)
RI:N / AG:na / SN: 4,11,36

Lafarge, Oliver (1901-1963)
RI:L-Saunderstown / AG:f / SN: 4,7,8,11
Laughing Boy (1929 Pulitzer Prize); Long Pennant (War of 1812); Behind the Mountains (1956); Man with the Calabash Pipe (1966)

Land, Jon (1957- )
RI:BP, L-Barrington / AG:f / SN: 7,8,17,30
Mystery author. Hope Mountain (1998); Walls of Jericho (1997); Dead Simple (1998); The Pillars of Solomon (1999)

Landon, Lucinda
RI:L-North Scituate / AG:j,v / SN: 9,12
Meg Mackintosh. Children's mysteries writer and illustrator

Lapati, Fr. Americo D. (1924- )
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:2
History of Catholic Education in Rhode Island (1958); Education and the Federal Government (1975)

Lasswell, Mary Lubbock (1905- )
RI:N / AG:f,nf / SN: 1,4
Wait for the Wagon; Suds In Your Eye; Let's Go for Broke; Bread for the Living; I'll Take Texas; Tooner Schooner

Lemons, J. Stanley (1938- )
RI:F / AG:nf / SN:2
George Kellner, Co-author. Rhode Island: the Independent State (1982, 1986)

Leuci, Bob (1940- )
RI:L-Saunderstown / AG:f / SN: 3,4,7,8,10,11
Former NYC policeman. The Snitch (1997) set in South County and NYC; Double Edge (1991); Captain Butterfly (1988,1998)

Levin, Linda Lotridge
RI:F-So. Kingstown / AG:nf / SN:35
To Understand: The History of 10-year Dialogue Between New England and Soviet Editors; Mass Communications Law in Rhode Island; Yankee Quill Journalism Award 1999; founder ACCESS/RI

Levine, Irving Raskin (1922- )
RI:B-Pawtucket,LP / AG:nf,br / SN: 2,4,7,8,35
Main Street, U.S.S.R (1959); Main Street, Italy (1963); The New Worker in Soviet Russia (1973). NBC correspondent and Providence Journal editor

Levitt, Marc Joe
RI:L,F / AG:f,nf / SN:16
Folk and multi-cultural storyteller

Lieberman,Phillip (1934- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior (1991); Eve Spoke: human language and human evolution (1998)

Liotta, Peter (1956- )
RI:LN / AG:nf / SN:7
Diamond's Compass (1993); Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon (1989); The Ruins of Athens, A Balkan Memoir (1998)

Lippincott, Bertram
RI:S / AG:nf / SN:4
Indians, Privateers and High Society

Lisle, Janet Taylor (1947- )
Ri:L / AG:j / SN:7
Afternoon of the Elves (1989); The Gold Dust Letters (1994); Angela's Aliens (1996)

Lisle, Laurie (1942- )
RI:BP,L / AG:nf,b / SN: 1,2,7
Portrait of an Artist: Biography of Georgia O'Keeffee (1980); Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life (1990); Without a Child; writer for Newsweek and Providence Journal

Little, Royal (1896- )
RI:B / AG:nf / SN:2
Founder of the first conglomerate, Textron autobiography: How to Lose $100,000,000, and Other Valuable Advice (1979)

Livermore, S. T.
RI:L / AG:nf / SN: 4
Comprehensive history of Block Island (1977); minister

Lockwood, Ernest L.
RI:L-Warwick / AG:nf / SN:4
Episodes in Warwick History (1937)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
RI:S,N / AG:p / SN: 4,11,46,48,49,50,52,73
The Skeleton In Armor (Old Stone Mill in Newport)

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (1890-37)
RI:BDP / AG:f / SN: 4,7,8,28
Mystery writer: The Outsider and Others (1939); The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941); Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943); considered the first science fiction writer

Loveridge, Geroge Y.
RI:L / AG:nf,f / SN:4
No One's Kindness (1945); magazine non-fiction writer

Luce, Stephen B. (c.1861)
RI:LN / AG:nf / SN:4
Seamanship. Assigned to US Naval Academy in Newport (Civil War)

Ludovici, Christinas (1660-1728)
RI:na / AG:nf / SN:7
The New England Almanac for 1695

— M —

Macaulay, David (1946- )
RI:F,L-Warren, Bristol / AG:j,v / SN: 2,7,8,9,10,12,35
Author and illustrator; many works encyclopedic. Black and White (Caldecott Award 1991); Castle (1977) Caldecott Honor Award 1978; Cathedral (1973) Caldecott Honor Award 1974; City (Rome; 1974); Pyramid (1975); Underground (1980); Motel of the Mysteries: Rome Antics; Shortcut; The Way Things Work; Why the chicken crossed the road; Building the Book CATHEDRAL (1999)
http://www.viewz.com/cafez/David-Macaulay/cz.mac.html
http://www.waythingswork.com

Magaziner, Ira (1948- )
RI:L-Bristol / AG:nf / SN:2
Robert C. Reich, Co-Author. Minding America's Business (1981)

Maguire, T.F. (1939- )
RI:B-Pawtucket, L-N.Kingstown / AG:pw / SN:7
Faces to the Rain (1995); Legacy of Silence (1997); Trelawney's Rose (1997)

Mahan, Alfred Thayer
RI:na / AG:na / SN:4

Mahoney, Rosemary (1961- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN: 7,8
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China (1990); Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age (1993); A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman (1998)

Maizie

RI:L / AG:nf / SN:4
Block Island Scrapbook (1957)

Malcom, Charles Howard4
RI:na / AG:na / SN:64

Mann, Horace
RI;L,BDP / AG:na / SN: 4,28
Father of American public school education

Marcus, Ben (1967- )
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:7
The Age of Wire and String (1995)

Marks, Percy (1891-? )
RI:F / AG:f / SN: 4,7
The Plastic Age (1924) made into a 1925 movie; Which Way Parnassus (1926); Full Flood (1942)

Marsh, George Tracy (1876-1945)
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:7
The River of Skulls (1936); White Silence (1938); Ask No Quarter (set in Rhode Island, 1945)

Martindale, Frances
RI:L-Wakefield / AG:f / SN:5
Short fiction writer, contemporary

Maso, Carole
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:7
AVA (1993); The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994); Defiances (1998)

Mason, George C.
RI:L,N / AG:na / SN:4
Architect and author

Mates, Susan (1950- )
RI:L-Barrington / AG:f / SN:7
The Good Doctor (1994)

Matthews, James Brander (1852-1929)
RI:L / AG:na / SN:4
Theatrical author

Maylem, John (1739- )
RI:BN / AG:p / SN:4

Mays, Don C.
RI:LN / AG:sw / SN7
Same Difference (1999)

McCarthy, Cormac (1933- )
RI:BP / AG:f / SN:7
The Orchard Keeper (1968); Suttree (1979); Blood Meridian (1985)

McCrorie, Edward (1936- )
RI:L-Pawtucket / AG:p / SN:7
After a Cremation (1974); The Aeneid of Virgil (translation, 1991;1995)

McGarry, Jean (1952- )
RI:BP / AG:f / SN:7
Airs of Providence (1985); The Very Rich Hours (1987); Gallaghers' Travels (1997)

McHugh, Vincent (1904-1983?)
RI:BP,L-West Barrington / AG:f / SN:4,7
Touch Me Not (1930), set at Rocky Point; Caleb Catlum's America (1930); Sing Before Breakfast, set on Block Island; Blue Hen's Chickens (1947)

McLean, Evalyn Walsh
RI:na / AG:na / SN:4
Father Struck It Rich

McLoughlin, William (1922-1992)
RI:F,LP / AG:nf / SN:2,7
The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State, 1630-1833: (1972); New England Dissent: 1630-1833, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform (1978); Rhode Island: A Bicentennial History (1978, 1986); After the Trail of Tears (1993)

McNulty, Faith (Corrigan,1918- )
RI:L-Wakefield / AG:j,nf,b / SN:1,2,4,7,8,12,58
Lady and the Spider; Orphan: the Story of a Baby Woodchuck; Snake in the House; With love from Koko; The Burning Bed (1980 biography; 1984 movie); The Elephant Who Couldn't Forget; How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World; Hurricane (1983); Woodchuck; A Snake in the House; The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty (from The New Yorker magazine, 1980); Dancing with Manatees (1994); Must They Die; Whooping Crane (1966); Staff writer for The New Yorker

McSorley, Edward (1902-1966)
RI:LP / AG:na / SN:7
Our Own Kind (1946); Young McDermott (1949); Kitt, I Hardly Knew You (1959)

Meras, Phyllis
RI:L,N / AG:ng / SN:11
Rhode Island an Explorer's Guide (1995, co-author Tom Gannon)

Milligan, Marjorie (1956- )
RI:BLP / AG:p / SN:7
Coats Field (1999)

Miller, G. Wayne
RI:L-Burrillville / AG:b,f / SN: 18,27
King of Hearts (2000); The World of Human Hands (1993); Toy Wars (1999); Coming of Age (1995); Thunder Rise (1989). Author of mysteries and medically based novels. http://www.gwaynemiller.com

Miner, George Leland ( -1966)
RI:P / AG:na / SN:4
Angell's Lane (1948)

Mitchell, Kathleen Riley
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:9
Island Adventure set in Block Island

Mitchell, Susanna Valentine (Gammell)
RI:L-East Greenwich / AG:f / SN:4
No Second Spring (1942)

Mitzner, Yvette
RI:L,F / AG:p / SN:5
Poet since 1972; two books

Molloy, Scott
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:2
Division 618: Streetcar Employees Fight for a Union in Rhode Island (1977, history of immigration and union formation)

Monteiro, George (1932- )
RI:B-Cumberland / AG:p,nf / SN:7
Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance (1988); Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (1996); Self-Analysis and 30 Other Poems by Fernando Pessoa (1998)

Moore, Clement C. (1779-1863)
RI:S,DN / AG:p,nf / SN: 4,7,11,36
The Complete Lexicon of the Hebrew Language (1890); A Visit from St. Nicholas ("Twas the Night Before Christmas," 1823)

Morison, Samuel Eliot (1887-1976)
RI:L / AG:nf,b / SN: 4,11,24,50,68
Old Bruno (1967) biography of Newport's Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry; The Oxford History of the American People (1927,1965), prolific historian of 25 books of the people and the sea. http://www.spear.navy.mil/ships/ffg13/admiral/info.htm

Murphy, Martha
RI:L / AG:NF / SN:9
Rhode Island Cookbook with Don Bosquet (1999)

Susan Huetteman is a retired teacher from Rhode Island.

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