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Daniel Stern

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(1928-2007) Writer. Daniel Stern was born in Manhattan, New York. He lived in Manhattan and the Bronx as a child. He had a home in Sag Harbor, New York. In addition to writing short stories and novels, Mr. Stern was a musician. Mr. Stern died in Houston, Texas, where he was Professor of English at … Continued

Maureen Cannon

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(1922-2007) Poet. Maureen Cannon was born in the Bronx in 1922 and died in Wyckoff, New Jersey in 2007. She was an award-winning poet who had over 1,000 poems published.

Herman Klurfeld

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(1916-2006) Writer. Herman Klurfeld was born in the Bronx, New York in 1916 and died in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2006. Klurfeld started writing as ghostwriter for Walter Winchell in 1936 and continued writing for Winchell for nearly thirty years. He later wrote books including “Behind the Lines: The World of Drew Pearson” (1968), and … Continued

Ellen Willis

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(1941-2006) Journalist. Ellen Jane Willis was born in Manhattan, New York in 1941. She grew up in the Bronx and Queens and graduated from Barnard in 1962. She died in Queens in 2006.

Nella Larsen

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(1891/93-1964) African American fiction writer. Nella Larsen was born in Chicago to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, who died when Nella was two. Her mother then married a man of her own race and nationality, a situation which some have said has informed Larsen’s writing. After studies in Nashville and then, in … Continued

A. Elizabeth Delany

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(1891-1995) Writer. Along with her sister, Sarah “Sadie” Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany lived in the Bronx, New York, and published an autobiography entitled “Having Our Say” (1993), which narrates their lives as African-American sisters and spans a one hundred year period. The two of them then published “The Delany Sisters’ Book of Everyday Wisdom” in … Continued

Upton Sinclair

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(1878-1968) Writer, novelist. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1878, and died in Bound Brook, New Jersey, in 1968. He is famous for his 1906 novel, “The Jungle.”

James Baldwin

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(1924-1987) Author, writer. James Baldwin was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, and spent an impoverished boyhood there. At 14 he became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York. In 2004 the United States Postal Service issued its twentieth stamp in the Literary Arts … Continued