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.”
2020
- Dr. Philip E. Phillips, January 2020
- Barbara Lewis, February 2020
2019
- Clennon L. King, January 2019
- Desiree Taylor, February 2019
- Anna VQ Ross, March 2019
- Dr. Ambitious, April 2019
- Sara Georgini, May 2019
- Dr. Gesa E. Kirsch, June 2019
- Dr. James McNaughton, July 2019
- Justine Chang, August 2019
- Fritz Holznagel, September 2019
- Dr. Elvira Basevich, October 2019
- KL Pereira, November 2019
- John Greenleaf Whittier, December 2019
2018
- Heidi Gearhart, January 2018
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, February 2018
- Ray Anthony Shepard, March 2018
- Doctor Bow and Mister Long, April Fools 2018
- Donald Kelley, April 2018
- Lesego Malepe, May 2018
- Robert Fieseler, June 2018
- Arda Cataltepe, July 2018
- Nicole Collins, August/September 2018
- Dan Breen, October 2018
- I.E. Fielding Into Abstraction, November 2018
- Lynne Byall Benson, December 2018
2017
- Edward Rowe Snow, January 2017
- Louise Miller, February 2017
- Marjorie Lyle Crandall, March 2017
- Athena, April Fools 2017
- Christopher Minty, April 2017
- Ellen F. Mason, May 2017
- Debbie Wiess, June 2017
- Julius Aboyneau Palmer, Jr., July 2017
- Laura Davidson, August 2017
- John Fiske, September 2017
- Sheila Cordner, October 2017
- Stephen Davis, November 2017
- Cullen Murphy, December 2017
2016
- Liz Covart, January 2016
- Elizabeth Bacon Custer, February 2016
- Gamaliel Bradford, March 2016
- Hang in there, baby!, April Fools 2016
- Robert J. Allison, April 2016
- Lucy Stone, May 2016
- Alice Brown, June 2016
- Thomas Mickey, July 2016
- Nathaniel Philbrick, August 2016
- Chiang Yee, September 2016
- Abraham Schechter, October 2016
- Caroline M. Hewins, November 2016
- Katherine Dimancescu, December 2016
2015
- Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton, January/February 2015
- Scott B. Guthery, March 2015
- Lucifer, April Fools 2015
- Daniel Webster, May 2015
- Joyce M. Bowden, June 2015
- Susan Playfair, July 2015
- Nathaniel Bowditch, August 2015
- David McCord, September 2015
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, October 2015
- Christopher Morgan, November 2015
- John Phillips Marquand, December 2015
2014
- Louisa May Alcott, January 2014
- Therese Sellers, February 2014
- Sarah Orne Jewett, March 2014
- Sara Hoagland Hunter, April 2014
- Maturin Murray Ballou, May 2014
- Charlotte Silver, June 2014
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, July 2014
- Marjan Kamali, August 2014
- Daniel Berkeley Updike, September 2014
- Beverly Hector-Smith, October 2014
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 2014
- James Conroy, December 2014
2013
- Thomas William Parsons, January 2013
- Rishi Reddi, February 2013
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 2013
- Elouisa Goose Partridge, or, Auntie Partridge, April 1st, 2013
- James W. Bradley, April, 2013
- Lydia Maria Child, May 2013
- Megan Marshall, June 2013
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, July 2013
- Daphne Kalotay, August 2013
- James Marshall, September 2013
- William Landay, October 2013
- Barbara Cooney, November 2013
- Ann Wadsworth, December 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
