Ann Beattie (born 1947),[31] author of eight novels and short stories in The New Yorker and other publications
Marcia Brown (1918–2015), children's book author and illustrator[32]
Stuart Chase (1988–1985), author credited with coining the slogan "A New Deal" for Franklin D. Roosevelt, lived in Redding[33] from the 1930s until his death in 1985
Les Daniels (1943–2011), author and noted historian on comic books[34]
Howard Fast (1914–2003),[35] author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970),[41] author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964),[36] novelist, wrote Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of
Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road (from 1949 to 1951)
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[47]
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008),[48] 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[49]
Artists, art experts and critics, cartoonists
Dan Beard (1850–1941), illustrator and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America; lived on Great Pasture[13]
^Lee, William F. (December 20, 2005).
"American Big Bands". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
^Spillane, Sean, "Meat Loaf: Not done yet and back in Connecticut for Mohegan Sun concert", article, "Go" entertainment supplement, The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut (also in The News-Times of Danbury, Connecticut Post of Bridgeport and Greenwich Time newspapers), July 8, 2010
^Gilbert, Alma, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Philip Wilson Publishers (2005),
ISBN0-85667-601-2 p. 34
^Syracuse University (1911).
"489. ADA JOSEPHINE TODD". Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University...: 1872-1910, including Genesee college, 1852-1871 and Geneva medical college, 1835-1872. 1911. 1 v. in 2 (Public domain ed.). p. 661. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
^Rumford, Beatrix T., ed. American Folk Paintings, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Series 11 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988), pp. 21-3, 77.
Ann Beattie (born 1947),[31] author of eight novels and short stories in The New Yorker and other publications
Marcia Brown (1918–2015), children's book author and illustrator[32]
Stuart Chase (1988–1985), author credited with coining the slogan "A New Deal" for Franklin D. Roosevelt, lived in Redding[33] from the 1930s until his death in 1985
Les Daniels (1943–2011), author and noted historian on comic books[34]
Howard Fast (1914–2003),[35] author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970),[41] author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964),[36] novelist, wrote Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of
Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road (from 1949 to 1951)
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[47]
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008),[48] 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[49]
Artists, art experts and critics, cartoonists
Dan Beard (1850–1941), illustrator and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America; lived on Great Pasture[13]
^Lee, William F. (December 20, 2005).
"American Big Bands". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
^Spillane, Sean, "Meat Loaf: Not done yet and back in Connecticut for Mohegan Sun concert", article, "Go" entertainment supplement, The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut (also in The News-Times of Danbury, Connecticut Post of Bridgeport and Greenwich Time newspapers), July 8, 2010
^Gilbert, Alma, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Philip Wilson Publishers (2005),
ISBN0-85667-601-2 p. 34
^Syracuse University (1911).
"489. ADA JOSEPHINE TODD". Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University...: 1872-1910, including Genesee college, 1852-1871 and Geneva medical college, 1835-1872. 1911. 1 v. in 2 (Public domain ed.). p. 661. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
^Rumford, Beatrix T., ed. American Folk Paintings, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Series 11 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988), pp. 21-3, 77.