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Northampton MA | Northampton Notables |
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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
- 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
- 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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