Rev Stanley Ladislas Jaki
(1924-2009) Writer. Stanley L. Jaki received a doctorate degree from Fordham University in 1957.
(1924-2009) Writer. Stanley L. Jaki received a doctorate degree from Fordham University in 1957.
(1884-1951) Playwright, screenwriter. Leo Birinski worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and in the United States. He died in the Bronx, New York.
(1924-2009) Historian. Martin J. Klein was born in the Bronx, New York, and studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.
(1929-2008) Poet. Donald Finkel was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in that city. He taught at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. His wife was the poet and novelist Constance Urdang.
(1879-1944) Poet, lyricist. Joseph Campbell, an Irish poet, was a member of the Fordham University faculty from 1928 to 1932.
(1912-2008) Writer. Studs Terkel was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Chicago, Illinois. He won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1985.
(1963-2008) Poet. Reginald Shepherd was born in New York City, and died in Pensacola, Florida. He grew up in the Bronx, New York.
(1928-1993) Carl Solomon was born in the Bronx, New York. He was the inspiration for the poem, “Howl.”
(1936-2008) Novelist. Edgardo Vega Yunque was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1936 and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 2008. He wrote stories and novels about life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York.
(1931-2008) Writer. Matthew J. Bruccoli authored more than fifty books, many of which were biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other authors.