Editing Amherst, Massachusetts (section)

===Historical===
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* [[Chinua Achebe]] (1930–2013), was a professor at the University of Massachusetts from 1972 to 1976
* [[Osmyn Baker]] (1800–1875), born in Amherst, [[United States Congressman]] and lawyer<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1967}}</ref>
* [[Ray Stannard Baker]] (1870–1946), newspaperman, biographer of Woodrow Wilson
* [[William S. Clark]] (1825–1886), Academician, politician, businessman; principal founder of the [[Massachusetts Agricultural College]] (now the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]), founder of the [[Sapporo Agricultural College]] (now the [[Hokkaido University]])
* [[Mason Cook Darling]] (1801–1866), born in Amherst, United States Congressman from [[Wisconsin]] and first mayor of [[Fond du Lac, Wisconsin]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Melvil Dewey]] (1851–1931), devised the Dewey Decimal System while an assistant librarian at Amherst College in 1876
* [[Edward Dickinson]] (1803–1874), born in Amherst, lawyer, United States Congressman, and father of Emily Dickinson<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Emily Dickinson]] (1830–1886), born and lived in Amherst, one of the most prominent and celebrated American poets<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Eugene Field]] (1850–1895), raised in Amherst by cousin, Mary Field French; poet and humorist who wrote children's poem ''[[Wynken, Blynken, and Nod]]''
* [[Robert Francis (poet)|Robert Francis]] (1901–1987), poet
* [[Robert Frost]] (1874–1963), Pulitzer prize-winning poet who taught at [[Amherst College]] and retired there
* [[Howard Roger Garis]] (1873–1962), children's author who wrote the Uncle Wiggily book series
* [[Lilian Garis]] (1873–1954), author of juvenile fiction who under the pseudonym [[Laura Lee Hope]] wrote early volumes in the [[Bobbsey Twins]] series
* [[Edward Hitchcock]] (1793–1864), educator, early geologist and a founder of the science of [[ichnology]]
* [[Helen Hunt Jackson]] (1830–1885), born in Amherst, noted author best known for ''[[A Century of Dishonor]]'' and her novel ''[[Ramona]]''<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Arthur Lithgow]] (1915–2004), lived and died in Amherst, noted actor, producer and director of Shakespeare plays, founder of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Ohio (today known as the Great Lakes Theatre Festival), former director of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, father of actor [[John Lithgow]]
* [[Ebenezer Mattoon]] (1755–1843), born in North Amherst, Lieutenant in Continental Army during American Revolution, US Congressman (1801–1803).<ref>"Mary Mattoon and her hero of the revolution" by Alice M. Walker, Carpenter and Morehouse, 1902</ref>
* [[Paul Nitze]] (1907–2004), born in Amherst, diplomat who helped shape defense policy over numerous presidential administrations
* [[Julius Hawley Seelye]] (1824–1895), Amherst college professor, united States Representative (1875–1877), 5th President of Amherst College
* [[Harlan Fiske Stone]] (1872–1946), attended public schools in Amherst and [[Amherst College]]; dean of the [[Columbia Law School]], 52nd [[Attorney General of the United States]], and [[Chief Justice of the United States]]
* [[Mabel Loomis Todd]] (1856–1932), world traveler, edited and published the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry
* [[Noah Webster]] (1758–1843), Author of ''An American Dictionary of the English Language''