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James Ridgeway

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(1936-2021) Journalist. James Ridgeway was born in Auburn, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.

Mildred Walker

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(1905-1998) Novelist. Mildred Walker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Portland, Oregon. She was a graduate of and a faculty member at Wells College in Aurora, New York.

Bruce Bennett

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Bruce Bennett was born in 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started to write poetry when he was eight. In the 1970s his poems began appearing regularly in magazines and anthologies. He received his AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and taught English at Oberlin College from 1967-70, where he co-founded and served as an editor … Continued

Edward Sandford Martin

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Humorist, journalist, essayist, writer, editor. Born on Owasco Lake. He helped found the “Harvard Lampoon” and the national humor magazine “Life” (1883-1936). He wrote for “Life” and “Harpers Weekly.”

Harold Bell Wright

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(1872-1944) Writer, novelist. Harold Bell Wright was born in Rome, New York and lived in Whitesboro, New York as an infant, and lived in Sennett, New York during his childhood.

Harriet Tubman

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(c.1821-1913) Writer, abolitionist. Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to the north in 1849. She then devoted herself to leading other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Quaker sympathizers helped her on her dangerous journeys to the South to collect new groups of fugitives. In 1857 she rescued her own parents, and … Continued