Henry Wheeler Shaw
Writer, humorist. Also known as Josh Billings. “Josh Billings on Ice,” lived in Poughkeepsie.
County: Dutchess
John Orley Allen Tate
(1899-1979) Poet, novelist, critic. Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Kentucky; lived with his wife, writer Caroline Gordon, near Pawling, New York, from 1925 to 1926. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
Lowell Thomas
Writer, journalist. “With Lawrence of Arabia,” lived on his Quaker Hill estate in Pawling and died there. He is buried in the cemetery of Christ Church.
Elizabeth Bishop
(1911-1979) Poet. Elizabeth Bishop attended Vassar College from 1930-34 with Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, Muriel Rukeyser, and others. It was at Vassar that Bishop met the poet/librarian Marianne Moore. She taught at New York University, and was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950.
Sarah Cleghorn
Poet, writer. “The Haunted Village,” taught at Manumit School, Pawling, in the 1920s.