Athenæum Authors

No one would be surprised to discover that authors often find a welcome retreat at the Boston Athenæum. To celebrate different authors, alternating between former and current members, will be featured on our website. Some will be familiar, even household, names whose works have entered the pantheon of American literature while others may have been forgotten or known only to a small group. Many will have passed on, but some you may find writing or typing in a nook at your retreat for those who “enjoy the humanity of books.”

2013

Thomas William Parsons, January 2013
Rishi Reddi, February 2013
Raplh Waldo Emerson, March 2012
Elouisa Goose Partridge, or, Auntie Partridge, April 1, 2013
James W. Bradley, April, 2013
Lydia Maria Child, May 2013

2012

Thomas Russell Sullivan, January 2012
Sukie Amory, February 2012
Ola Elizabeth Winslow, March 2012
Lloyd Fairsoap, April 1st, 2012
David Ferry, April, 2012
Edwin Percy Whipple, May, 2012
Philip McFarland, June, 2012
Nora Perry, July 2012
Ruth Butler, August 2012
Lilla Cabot Perry, September, 2012
Candace Huntington, October, 2012
Margaret Deland, November, 2012
Diana Renn, December, 2012

2011

Joshua Kendall, January 2011
Drew Gilpin Faust, February 2011
The Harris Family, March 2011
Doubtful Guest, April 1st, 2011
Anne Alison Barnet, April / May 2011
Francis Parkman, June / July 2011
William Kuhn, August 2011
Norma Farber, September 2011
Dan McNichol, October 2011
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, November 2011
Liza Ketchum, December 2011

2010

Walter Muir Whitehill, March/April 2010
Jack Gantos, May 2010
Charles Ammi Cutter, June 2010
Mary O’Donoghue, July 2010
Amy Lowell, August 2010
Jill McDonough, September 2010
Nicholas A. Basbanes, October 2010
Hannah Adams, November / December 2010