George Putnam published the books of many classic American authors including his close friend Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED).
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Her home served as a literary salon and hosted notables including Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and others.
One of her books of children's stories, Children's Stories in American Literature: 1861-1896, covered a period of 1660-1860 with great authors like Edgar Allan Poe, William Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The park has been visited by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) and many literary contemporaries, including Washington Irving (1783–1859) and William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) and Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).
Notable residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Natalie Portman, Ben Wagner, a translator and businessman, and John Rzeznik, frontman of the rock band Goo Goo Dolls.