Local Authors

Brunonia Barry - The Lace Reader (2009) and The Map of True Places (2010)

Katy Bratun - Gingerbread Mouse (2003)

Giles Laroche - What's Inside? (2009) ; Bridges are to Cross (1998)

Howard Olsen - Indiscriminate (set in Salem)

Peter Lenz - Voyages to Norumbega ; Columbus:Indians, Slavery and a New World Order (1992)

Edward M. Turner - Rogues Together: A Chronicle of Olde England (e-book)

Marian Babson -(born in Salem, moved to England)Pretty Lady, The Stalking Lamb, etc.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) House of the Seven Gables (1851), ....

Margaret Press - Counterpoint, (1996); Elegy for a Thief (1993); Requiem for a Postman (1992)(all set in Salem)

Jones Very - Jones Very: the complete poems (1993)

See Also

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Salem -Authors

• The North Shore Literary Trail by K. Bierfelt

• Legendary locals of Salem By Curley, Malcolm, Dionne.

Authors include: M. Press, N. Hawthorne, Brunonia Barry, Katherine Howe, Damien Echols, Bonnie Hurd-Smith, Kathleen Kent, Robert Booth.

• "New book by local author is set in Salem" Salem Evening News, Aug. 22, 2001, p. A2

• "Teacher's latest book offers insight about native peoples" Salem Evening News, Nov. 26, 1994, p. 1