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List of people from Redding, Connecticut

People associated with Redding, Connecticut, listed in the area they are best known:

Actors, musicians and entertainers

Authors and other writers

  • Joel Barlow (1754–1812), poet and diplomat, born in Redding
  • Julian Barry (born 1930), Oscar nominee for Lenny, resident since 2001
  • Ann Beattie (born 1947), author of eight novels and short stories in The New Yorker and other publications
  • Amy Ella Blanchard (1854–1926), writer
  • Marcia Brown (1918–2015), children's book author and illustrator
  • Stuart Chase (1988–1985), author credited with coining the slogan "A New Deal" for Franklin D. Roosevelt, lived in Redding from the 1930s until his death in 1985
  • Les Daniels (1943–2011), author and noted historian on comic books
  • Howard Fast (1914–2003), author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s
  • Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), translator, poet, mentor of Flannery O'Connor, lived on Seventy Acre Road
  • William Honan (1930–2014), Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
  • Eliot Janeway (1913–1993), author and economist; spouse of Elizabeth Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
  • Elizabeth Janeway (1913–2005), novelist, spouse of Eliot Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
  • Michael Janeway (1940–2014), author and editor of The Boston Globe; son of Eliot and Elizabeth Janeway
  • Holly Keller (born 1942), children's author and illustrator, lived in West Redding in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
  • Phyllis Krasilovsky (1926–2014), authored 20 books for children between 1950 and 1997
  • Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970), author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s
  • Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), novelist, wrote Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road (from 1949 to 1951)
  • Albert Bigelow Paine (1861–1937), writer, lived on Diamond Hill
  • Jane and Michael Stern (both born 1946), of West Redding, write the "Roadfood" column for Gourmet magazine; authors of Roadfood and other books
  • Ruth Stout (1884–1980), writer about organic gardening
  • Anne Parrish Titzell (1888–1957), children's book author, lived on Peaceable Street
  • Ada Josephine Todd (1858–1904), author and educator
  • Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), author of Future Shock, lived on Mountain Road
  • Aaron Louis Treadwell Ph.D. (1866–1947), college professor; author of The Cytogeny of Podarke obscura and other scientific books
  • Tasha Tudor (1915–2008), children's author and artist, lived on Tudor Road
  • Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens) (1835–1910), lived in mansion dubbed "Stormfield" built on land located on present-day Mark Twain Lane from 1908 to 1910

Artists, art experts and critics, cartoonists

People in government and politics

Other

See also

References