(1735-1826) The second president of the United States. John Adams, who was also an eloquent political philosopher, wrote a number of essays, including his “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Laws (1765), and he also kept a journal throughout his life. In 1797, while avoiding the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Adams lived at … Continued
(1859-1916) Novelist, playwright. Sholem Aleichem was born in Russia, lived his last years in the United States and died in New York City. Throughout his life, he wrote novels, short stories, and plays, all exclusively in Yiddish. The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” is based on some of his short stories. He was the father … Continued
(1880-1957) Yiddish writer, playwright. Asch lived in the Bronx, New York.
(1924-1987) Writer. Author. He was born in Harlem, spent an impoverished boyhood there, and at 14 became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. His novels included “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (1953), “Another County” (1962), “The Fire Next Time” (1963), “Giovanni’s Room” (1956), and “Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone”, (1968)”. … Continued
(1923-1981) Playwright, screenwriter. Paddy Chayefsky was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended City College of New York and Fordham University.
Writer. Along with her sister, SARAH DELANY, Elizabeth Delany lived in the Bronx 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 1994.
Mercy College has the following libraries: (1) Dobbs Ferry Campus Library (Westchester County), (2) Manhattan Campus Library (New York County), (3) Bronx Campus Library (Bronx County), and (4) Yorktown Heights Campus Library (Westchester County). Each of these libraries is listed individually.
The D. Samuel Gottesman Library is located at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University on the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in Bronx, New York.