Donald Harington
(1935-2009) Writer. Donald Harington was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and died in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He taught at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York.
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Esther Holden Averill
(1902-1992) Writer. Esther Holden Averill was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1902 and died in New York in 1992. She worked at the New York Public Library and was an author and illustrator of children’s books.
Dirk Zimmer
(1943-2008) Writer, illustrator. Dirk Zimmer was born in Goslar, Germany and died in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was author and illustrator of several children’s books.
Mary Lee Settle
(1918-2005) Novelist. Mary Lee Settle worked as a model and journalist in New York City and taught at Bard College in Annadale-On-Hudson, New York.
George Lippard
(1822-1854) Novelist. George Lippard lived in Rhinebeck, New York and attended the Classical Academy.
Eleanor Clark
(1913-1996) Writer. Eleanor Clark attended Vassar College in the 1930s.
Emily Weisberg Sunstein
(1924-2007) Biographer. Emily Sunstein was born in Dallas, Texas in 1924 and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2007.
Frank M Snowden Jr
(1911-2007) Historian, writer. Frank M. Snowden, Jr. was born in York County, Virginia in 1911, and died in Washington, D.C. in 2007. Snowden’s family moved to Boston, Massachusetts when he was a child. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard, all in the field of classics. Dr Snowden was an authority of … Continued
Meg Kearney
Meg Kearney is the author of a novel-in-verse for teens as well as two books of poems; the most recent, HOME BY NOW, won the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award. Currently Director of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, MA), Meg is the former Associate Director of The … Continued
Mary Hallock Foote
(1847-1938) Writer. “The Desert and the Sown,” Mary Hallock Foote was from a farm in Saratoga County, New York.