A comprehensive database of New York City and State writers.
Explore the rich New York State literary history of deceased and current circuit writers. Find published authors for your audiences, including reading series, school visits, and more.
1900 – 1990 • NY City
(1900-1990) Writer. Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in North Tarrytown, New York.
1889 – 1966 • NY City
Poet. Leader of the Introspectivists, a Yiddish poetry movement of the 1920s, lived in the Bronx.
1910 – 1985 • NY City
(1910-1985) Librettist, author. Abe Burrows was born and died in Manhattan, New York.
1903 – 1986 • NY State
(1903-1986) Writer, song-writer. Abel Meeropol taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York. He used the pseudonym Lewis Allan.
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