| William Bradford | Of Plymouth Plantation | -immigrant to Massachusetts for religious freedom
-governor and historian of Plymouth community |
| Mary Rowlandson | A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs.. Mary Rowlandson | -victim of King Philip's War, which led to the crushing of the New England Native American Wampanoag tribe. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown" | -born in Salem, MA; studied colonial history
-The Scarlet Letter considered the classic New England novel |
| Henry David Thoreau | The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Walden | -lived almost his whole life in Concord, MA
-wrote detailed observations of nature and people |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Country of the Pointed Firs | -realistic portrayals of Maine people and villages; optimistic portrayals
of women's fortitude in the face of a harsh life
-termed local colorist |
| Mary Wilkins Freeman | "A New England Nun" | -born in Randolph, MA
-known for her depictions of New England village life
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| W. E. B. DuBois | The Souls of Black Folk | -raised in small-town New England (Massachusetts)
-wrote of the difference between the racial environments of the South and New England |
| Edward Arlington Robinson | Poems | -wrote of "Tilbury Town," based on his hometown of Gardiner, Maine |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay | -raised in Rockland, Maine, a small coastal town
-wrote New England poems in regional tradition; became a symbol of the modern woman |
