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  • Jeanne Birdsall, children's author, best known for her debut novel, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
  • Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and AirAmerica Radio personality
  • John Hodgman, known for his Apple TV commercials and stints on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is an occasional Valley resident.
  • Augusten Burroughs, author, his bestseller Running with Scissors describes his strange childhood in Northampton
  • William Cullen Bryant, 19c author and newspaper editor
  • Eric Carle, children's book author and illustrator
  • Lydia Maria Child, authoress of the Thanksgiving poem "Over the River and Through the Woods"
  • Chris Collingwood, lead singer of the band Fountains of Wayne
  • Deb Talan, singer/songwriter
  • Calvin Coolidge; served as mayor of Northampton before becoming governor of Massachusetts and U.S. president
  • Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics from their Northampton studio
  • Jonathan Edwards, 18c Congregational theologian, philosopher, leader of First Great Awakening and local pastor
  • Anthony Giardina, author
  • Herbert Gintis, economist
  • Sylvester Graham, namesake of the Graham Cracker
  • Tracy Kidder, author
  • Elinor Lipman, author
  • José Molina, member, USA national Indoor field hockey team
  • William Monahan, novelist and screenwriter
  • Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth
  • Talisa Soto, actress
  • Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist and orator
  • Kurt Vonnegut, author
 
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