On June 14, 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. Harriet's father's name was Lyman Beecher who was a Presbyterian minister. Harriet's mother died when Harriet was only four years old. Harriet had eight brothers and sisters in her family.

Harriet went to Hartford Female Seminary, created by her sister, Katharine. There, Harriet started teaching, which she very much disliked, but she still taught to make her father happy.

When Harriet was twenty-one years old her and her father moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was Dean of the Lane Theological Seminary. While Harriet was there she met a man named, Calvin Stowe. Calvin and Harriet got married on January 6, 1836 when she was twenty-four. Together they had six kids in Cincinnati. Calvin made only enough money to support his family, while Harriet wrote stories, but most of her time was spent with her children. Then Harriet's new baby Charley, died.

Calvin was offered a spot in Bowdon College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1850. There, Harriet had a seventh child. The family got even poorer. When the Slave Law came to affect in 1850 Calvin and Harriet didn't obey and helped a slave woman into Canada. That inspired Harriet to write the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1851 Harriet made it be put in the National Era Magazine monthly. It took her a year to write it. Published in 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin became very popular. Harriet traveled around the world giving speeches and meeting many famous abolitionists and celebrities. A lot of people didn't like the novel. Southerners said the novel was an attack of their ways. People were either for or against the book. Some say the novel was one of the causes of the Civil War. Harriet met Abraham Lincoln and he said to her that she was partly why the war started.

After the Civil War, Harriet wrote about 30 more novels. Harriet Beecher Stowe died on July 1st, 1896and buried in a cemetery in Andover, Massachusetts.