Welcome to this Gumberg Library research guide designed to introduce you to writers from Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Some of these writers were born here and moved away. Some were born elsewhere and moved here. Some lived their whole lives here, while some stayed only for a period of time. Writers who are primarily poets are not included on this guide. Visit the Pittsburgh Poets research guide to make their acquaintance. (On this guide, if you do not find a writer you are looking for who is not primarily a poet, try Littsburgh. You may find them there.) To learn more about many of the authors on this webpage, visit the Literature Resources research guide. Enjoy!
The image above is a detail from a photograph entitled "Confluence of the Allegheny and Monongehela Rivers" by Henry C. Schmitt. CC BY-SA 2.5 Source: Wikimedia Commons
Biography from American Writers of the Early Republic
Biography from American Humorists, 1800-1950
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from American Newspaper Journalists, 1901-1925
Biography from American Novelists, 1910-1945
Biography from American Short Story Writers, 1880-1910
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Twentieth Century American Dramatists
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Modern American Critics, 1920-1955
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from the Carnegie Mellon University Tartan
Brackenridge: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Bly: Public domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons
Cather: Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Rinehart: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Bell: http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-2021&storyId=1-9-24
Kaufman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Cowley: Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Burke: http://www.natcom.org/VBCrable/
Schmitt: https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickgage/1477608617/
Biography from American Newspaper Journalists, 1690-1872
Biography, from American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939
Another Biography, from Gay & Lesbian Biography
Biography from American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Twentieth-Century American Dramatists
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Twentieth-Century American Dramatists
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Biography from American National Biography Online
Biography, from Contemporary Authors
Biography, from American Poets, 1880-1945, 2nd Series
All books by at the Gumberg Library
Biography from American Mystern & Detective Writers
Biography from the St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers
Biography from Contemporary Authors Online
Obituary from the New York Times
Swisshelm: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Stein: Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Allen: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/whallenjr.htm
Commager: http://www.nndb.com/people/662/000117311/
Connelly: Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Davenport: http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Marcia-Davenport/146481
Laughlin: Photo by Alexjohns, CC-ASA-3.0-U, Wikimedia Commons
Carr: http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2012/07/sealed-rooms-and-ghoulish-laughter.html
Hodges: http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/magazine/in-memoriam/2005/margaret-hodges-1911-2005/
