Rhode Island Authors: N - T
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

— N —

Nash, Ogden (1902-1971)
RI:LN / AG:h,p / SN:4,11,49,52
http://web.aimnet.com/~veeceet/kids/nash.html

Nelson, Gale (1961)
RI:LP / AG:p / SN:7
Stare Decisis (1991); The Mystic Cipher (1993)

Neusner, Jacob (1932- )
RI:F / AG:na / SN:2,11
Stranger at Home: the Holocaust, Zionism and American Judaism (1981)

Nock, Albert J. (1870-1945)
RI:L / AG:nf,b / SN:7
Thomas Jefferson: A Biography (1926, 1983); Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1939,1964,1983); Our Enemy the State (1908,1983)

Norman, Charles (1904-1996)
RI:LN / AG:b,p,j / SN:7
John Muir, Father of Our National Parks (1957); The Magic-Maker, E.E. Cummings (1958); Ezra Pound (1960, 1969)

— O —

O'Brien, Mary B.9,65
RI: L-WesterlyAG:nf,v
Picture It! (a collage of Watch Hill, limited edition)

O'Connor, Edwin (1918-1958)
RI:B-Woonsocket / AG:f / SN:4,7,9,11,65
The Edge of Sadness (1962 Pulitzer Prize); The Last Hurrah (1955); All in the Family (1966). Writes of the Irish-American experience.

Ortega, Julio (1942- )
RI:LP / AG:f,p / SN:7,40
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Power of Fiction (1986); Moscow Gold and Ayachucho, Goodbye (1994); An Emotional Life (English translation, 1997 poetry); Picador Book of Latin American Stories; Poetics of change: The New Spanish-American Narrative; Reapropiaciones: Cultura y Nueva Escritura en Puerto Rico; Adios, Ayacucho; Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction (Ed.); La Teoria Poetic de Cesar Vallejo; The land in the Day; Retrato de Carlos Fuentes

— P —

Palmer, Fanny Purdy (1839-1923)
RI:L / AG:p / SN:7
Bibliography of Rhode Island Literary Women 1726601892 (1893); Dates and Days in Europe by an American residing in England 1914-1915

Parker, Barbara Keevil1
RI:L-Riverside / AG:j / SN:2
North American Wolves; Susan B. Anthony: Daring to Vote

Patric, Jeanne B.
RI:So. Kingstown / AG:p / SN:54
Islands, Poems of South County (illustrations by Jane Clayton, 1999); publications in Bird Watching Digest, Midwest Poetry Review, and Northwoods Journal

Patten, David
RI:LP / AG:nf,e / SN:4
Three Sides to the Sea.

Patterson, James T. (1935- )
RI:LP / AG:b,nf / SN:7
Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (1972); The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture (1987); Grand Expectations: The U.S. 1945-1974 (1996)

Paul, Elliot H. (1891-1958)
RI:L-Cranston,DP / AG:na / SN:4,7
The Life and Death of a Spanish Town (1937); Murder Mystery (1940); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1942)

Pearlman, David (1935- )
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
The Barb of Time: On the Unity of Ezra Pound's Cantos (1969); Black Flames (1997)

Peck, Annie S. (1850-1935)
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:7
A Search for the Apex of America (1911); The South American Tour (1913); Flying over South America (1932). Adventure writer.

Pell, Claiborne de Borda (1918- )
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:2
Megalopolis Unbound: The Supercity and the Transportation of Tomorrow (1966). U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.

Penn, Arthur
RI:S / AG:p / SN:4
Smilin' Through. His museum-home on Block Island was named after the poem.

Perel, Jane Lunin (1946- )
RI:L-East Greenwich / AG:p / SN:7
Blowing Kisses to the Sharks (1978); The Sea Is Not Full (1990)

Perelman, S.J. (1904-1979)
RI:LP / AG:j,sw,pw,h / SN:7,8,49
Stageplays/musicals: One Touch of Venus, The Beauty Part; screenplays: Around the World in 80 Days (Oscar); Horse Feathers and Monkey Business (Marx Brothers); The Most of S.J. Perelman (1958); Vinegar Puss (1975); The Last Laugh (1981)

Philbrick, Charles Horace II (1922-1970)
RI:BP / AG:p / SN:7
New England Suite: Selected Poems (1962); Voyages Down (1967); Nobody Laughs, Nobody Cries (1974)

Plante, David(1940- )
RI:BP / AG:f / SN:2,7,8,69
Stories of French-American heritage: The Family (1979), The Country (1981) and The Woods (1982); Slides (1971); The Ghost of Henry James (1971); The Darkness of the Body (1975); Relatives (1975); Figures in Bright Air, (1976); Annunciation; The Age of Terror

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
RI:L / AG:p,f / SN:4,7,8,46,51,48,67,73
Lectured and lived in Providence during his 1848 courtship of poetess Sarah Helen Power Whitman. Al Aaraf (1829; includes To Helen); Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840); The Raven and Other Poems (1945)

Pope, Leo (a.k.a. Jackie Normand)
RI:L-Portsmouth / AG:f / SN:4
Featherweight boxer who became a writer of Malachi Breen mysteries.

Potter, George W. (1899-1959)
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
To the Golden Door (1960); The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America (1960)

Potter, Nancy A.J. (1926- )
RI:L-West Kingston / AG:f / SN:1,7
Legacies (1987); We Have Seen the Best of our Times (1969)

Prout, Quintin(1967- )
RI:BP / AG:p,e / SN:7
Nobe's Kitchen (1998); Ed., Spoken Jazz Press

Pyle, Katherine (1863-1938)
RI:L / AG:j / SN:7
Once Upon a Time in Rhode Island (1914); Fairly Tales from India (1926); Charlemagne and his Knights (1932)

— Q —

No authors available.

— R —

Ragosta, Ray (1949- )
RI:BP / AG:p / SN:7
Varities of Religious Experience (1993); Grondines Episode (1998)

Rahman, Aishah7
RI:LP / AG:pw / SN:7
Only in America (1998); The Mojo and Sayso (1999); Anybody Seen Marie LaVeau? (1999)

Ramey, Linda
RI:N / AG:p / SN:5
Free verse poet.

Rawson, Marion (Nicholl) (1878-1956)
RI:P,:L / AG:nf / SN:1,4
Candle Days; Forever the Farm; From Here to Yonder; Handwrought Ancestors; New Hampshire Born a Town; Of the Earth Earthy; When Antiques were Young

Ray, Andrew
RI:L / AG:p / SN:5

Renehan, Edward J. (1956- )
RI:na / AG:b,nf / SN:4,11,26,27,29
The Lion's Pride: (Theodore Roosevelt, the family man,1998); The Secret Six (the John Brown conspiracy, 1997); John Burroughs (1992,1998);

Richards, Laura Howe (1850-1943)
RI:LN / AG:nf / SN:7
The Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (2 vols.,co-authors, Maude Howe Elliott with Florence Howe Hall, Pulitzer Prize 1916); Stepping Westward (19331); Samuel Gridley Howe (1935)

Richter, Harvena
RI:S-Watch Hill / AG:nf / SN:4
The Human Shore (1959)includes Watch Hill and Westerly

Ritchie, Ethel Colt
RI:L-Block Island / AG:nf / SN:4
Block Island Lore and Legends

Robinson, Charles Alexander,Jr.(1900-1965)
RI:LP / AG:nf / SN:7
Alexander the Great: Conqueror and Creator of a New World (1963)

Robinson, William H. (1922- )
RI:BN,F / AG:nf / SN:2
Black New England Letters (1977); The Proceedings of the Free African Union Society and the African Benevolent Society, Newport, R.I., 1780-1824 (1976)

Rhondina, Christopher
RI:L-North Kinston / AG:nf / SN:9
Vampire Legends of Rhode Island 

Rogers, Samuel Green A. (1894-?)
RI:BN / AG:na / SN:3,7
Dusk at the Grove (set in Portsmouth, 1934); Flora Shawn (1942)

 — S —

Sasso, Laurence, Jr.
RI: L-Esmond / AG:p / SN:5
Part of the Olney Street Group

Scott, Winifeld Townley
RI:L / AG:p,e / SN: 4,8
New and Selected Poems (1967); Providence Journal literary editor

Shevill, James (1920- )
RI:LP / AG:p,pw / SN:7
The Bloody Tenet (1956); Oppenheimer's Chair (1970); Ambiguous Dancers of Fame, Collected Poems 1945-1986 (1987)

Schneider, John G. (1909-1964)
RI:L-Westerly / AG:na / SN:4
The Golden Kazoo

Schofield, William Greenough (1909- )
RI:BP / AG:nf / SN:7
Ashes in the Wilderness, the Story of King Philip's War (1942); The Deer Cry: A Novel of Patrick of Eirinn (1948); Destroyers-60 Years (1962)

Scholes, Robert (1929- )
RI:L-Barrington / AG:nf / SN:7
The Practice of Writing (1981); Textual Power (1985); The Rise and Fall of English (1998)

Schroder, Walter K. (1928- )
RI:L-Jamestown / AG:nf / SN:17,35
Stars and Swastikas; Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II; Dutch Island and Fort Greble, 1998; Davisville and the Seabees (co-author Gloria A. Emma, 1999)

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910-1968)
RI:LN / AG:p,nf / SN: 7,8,35
The Sword on the Table: Thomas Dorr's Rebellion (1942); Collected Poems: 1937-1962 (1962); Alpha Omega (Newport memoir and final poems, posthumous 1971)

Scribner, Virginia1
RI:L-So. Kingstown / AG:j / SN:2
Gopher Takes Heart; Gopher Draws Conclusions (5th grade)

Severance, John B. (1935- )
RI:L-Westerly / AG:nf,b,j / SN:7,9
Middle-grade biographies: Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist (1996); Gandhi: Great Soul (1997), Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Democracy (1998); Einstein

Sgouros, Tom
RI:L / AG:j,nf / SN:6
Plastic Alligators; Fish; Sludge (storyteller and historian)

Sharp, Eleyne Austen
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:10,17,27,31
Haunted Newport. Founder, Community Writers Association, Newport. http://www.austensharp.com

Shea, Suzanne Strempek
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:35
Selling the Lite of Heaven; Hoopi Shoopi Donna; Lily of the Valley (1999); gives voice to Polish Americans--"Look! Look how wonderful it is!"

Sheldon, Charles M.
RI:L,P / AG:nf / SN:4
In His Footsteps (written for youth of his Congregational Church, sold 25 million copies)

Shurtleff, Bertrand Leslie (1897-1967)
RI:B-Little Compton / AG:nf / SN:4,7
Wrote K-9 books, including AWOL-K-9 Commando (1944); Short Leash (1945; Long Lash (1947); Escape from the Icecap (1952)

Silvestri, Linda
RI:F,L,N / AG:nf / SN:35
The Saunders Pyramid to Success (nurses text with CD-ROM)

Simister, Florence Parker (1913-1981)
RI:BP / AG:j,nf,br / SN: 1,7
Daniel and Drum Rock; The First Hundred Years; Girl with a Musket; The Pewter Plate; Streets of the City (radio scripts of Streets of the City, 1968); The Fire's Center: Rhode Island in the Revolutionary Era (1979)

Sizer, Nancy Faust
RI:F,LP / AG:nf / SN:35
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (co-author Theodore R. Sizer, 1999)

Sizer, Theodore R.
RI:F,LP / AG:nf / SN:35
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (co-author Nancy Faust Sizer, 1999)

Slattery, William J.
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:35

Smith, Alison
RI:L-Harmony-Gloucester / AG:j / SN:12
Billy Boone; Come Away Home (middle-grade fiction)

Smith, Robert
RI:L,P / AG:na / SN:4
The Human Image, (1945)

Sokenu, Julius
RI:P,F / AG:p / SN:5
Poetry and folk tales from his childhood in Nigeria, West Africa

Sorlien, Robert P. (1916- )
RI:L,F / AG:nf,b / SN:35
John Donne authority and competitive runner

Stein, Michael
RI:L,F / AG:f / SN:35
Physician-author of The White Life (1999); Probabilities (1995); novel in process (Christmas 2000 publication date)

Steinbach, Meredith (1949- )
RI:LP / AG:f / SN:7
Here Lies the Water (1990); Reliable Light (1990); The Birth of the World As We Know It; or, Teiresias (1996)

Stetson, Barbara
RI:L / AG:nf / SN:9
Cookbook author

Stevens, Barbara
RI:P,F / AG:na / SN:5
Cit Arts Programs

Stillwell, Margaret Bingham (1887-1984)
RI:BP,F / AG:nf,f / SN:1,2,7
Incunablula and Americana,1450-1800 (1931); While Benefit Street Was Young (1943); The Pageant of Benefit Street Down Through the Years (1945, Old Providence); Librarians Are Human (1973)

Strange, Michael (a.k.a., Blanche M. Oelrichs)
RI:SN / AG:pw,p / SN:4
Married to John Barrymore and later Leonard M. Thomas

Stuckey, Irene (1911- )
RI:F / AG:nf / SN:1,2,4
Rhode Island Wildflowers (1967); Endangered Plants of Rhode Island

Sullivan, Nancy (1929- )
RI:BN,L-West Kingston,F / AG:p,nf,e / SN:1,2,7,9
History of the World as Pictures, Poems (1965 Devins Memorial Award); Telling It (1975); The Treasury of American Short Stories

— T —

Taggart, Cynthia (? -1949)
RI:B,L,D-Middletown / AG:p / SN:4
Poetry editions

Taylor-Lisle, Janet
RI:L-Little Compton, Tiverton / AG:j / SN:12
Investigators of the Unknown (series); Afternoon of the Elves (Newberry Honor Book 1990); Forest; A Message from the March Girl (middle-grade fiction)

Thomas, A.E.
RI:L-Matunuck / AG:pw / SN:4
Playwright for Brown University's "Sock and Buskin" thespians

Thurston, Carla Cy
RI:L-Coventry / AG:p / SN:5
Naturalist and inter arts poet

Townley, Scott Winfield (1910-1963)
RI:na / AG:p,e / SN:8
The Sword on the Table; Collected Poems; Alpha Omega

Troy, George Francis, Jr. (1909- )
RI:BP / AG:f,nf,e / SN:7
Headland (1952); Native to the Grain (1961); Providence Journal editor

Triedman, Elle
RI:B-RI / AG:br,nf / SN:11
Providence Journal TV writer, http://www.projo.com

Susan Huetteman is a retired teacher from Rhode Island.

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