Editing Vermont (section)

==Residents==
{{Main|List of people from Vermont}}
The following were either born in Vermont or resided there for a substantial period during their lives and whose names are widely known.
* [[Chester A. Arthur]], 21st [[President of the United States]]
* [[Pearl S. Buck]], author
* [[Jake Burton Carpenter]], inventor of the [[snowboard]]
* [[Calvin Coolidge]], 30th President of the United States
* [[John Deere (inventor)|John Deere]], founder of [[Deere & Company]]
* [[George Dewey]], the only [[Admiral of the Navy]] in U.S. history
* [[John Dewey]], philosopher, psychologist, and educator
* [[Stephen Douglas]], 19th-century politician
* [[Carlton Fisk]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] catcher
* [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]], financier
* [[Robert Frost]], poet
* [[Richard Morris Hunt]], architect
* [[Rudyard Kipling]], author
* [[Bill McKibben]], environmentalist
* [[Samuel Morey]], inventor of the steam-powered [[paddle wheel]] boat
* [[Justin Morrill]], U.S. Senator and author of the Morrill Land Grant Acts.
* [[Norman Rockwell]], painter, author, and illustrator
* [[Bernie Sanders]], politician and legislator
* [[Joseph Smith]], founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]]
* [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], Russian author and Soviet dissident
* [[Rudy Vallée]], singer and actor
* [[Brigham Young]], 2nd [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]

===In fiction===

* Vermont was also the home of Dick Loudon, [[Bob Newhart]]'s character on the 1980s sitcom ''[[Newhart]]''. All action supposedly took place in Vermont.
* Vermont was the home of Pollyanna and her Aunt Polly in the novel ''[[Pollyanna]]'', later made into the 1960 [[Walt Disney|Disney]] [[Pollyanna (1960 film)|film]] starring [[Hayley Mills]] and [[Jane Wyman]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ANV3XNKFOHPXM Book Review]. Retrieved September 12, 2008.</ref>
* In [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]'', Vermont is the home of folklorist Henry Akeley (and the uninhabited hills of Vermont serve as one of the earth bases of the extraterrestrial [[Mi-Go]]).
* [[Donna Tartt]]'s novel ''[[The Secret History]]'' is a story set mostly in a fictitious town of Hampden, Vermont, and college of the same name, where several students conspire to murder a classmate.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/books/books-of-the-times-students-indulging-in-course-of-destruction.html|title=Books of The Times; Students Indulging In Course of Destruction|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=September 4, 1992|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 7, 2018|language=en|author-link=Michiko Kakutani}}</ref>
* [[Sinclair Lewis]]' 1935 anti-fascist novel ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'' is largely set in Vermont, as local newspaper editor Doremus Jessup opposes a newly elected dictatorial government.
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* [[Annie Baker]]'s ''[[Circle Mirror Transformation]]'', ''[[Body Awareness]]'', and ''[[The Aliens (play)|The Aliens]]'' all take place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont.