(1909-2001) Poet. Mary Barnard was born in Vancouver, Washington. She was curator of The Poetry Collection at the Lockwood Memorial Library at the University of Buffalo, New York. She also won two Yaddo residencies near Saratoga Springs, New York.
(1945-2008) Poet. G. E. Murray was the author of eight collections of poetry. He had lived in Buffalo, New York, and had a bachelor’s degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
(1846-1935) Writer. Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs was a detective fiction writer.
(1916-1970) Historian. Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 and died in 1970. Hofstadter was the winner of two Pulitzer prizes.
(1922-2007) Screenwriter, novelist. Elliott Baker was born in Buffalo, New York in 1922, and died in Los Angeles, California in 2007.
(1923-1987) John Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1923. From 1966 to 1985, he was an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987 in San Francisco, California.
(Died in 2006, aged 61 years) Writer. John Mohawk was a longtime professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, and author of many essays, speeches, books and articles.
Geoffrey Gatza is the editor and publisher of BlazeVOX [books] and the author of eight books of poetry; Secrets of my Prison House will be out in the Fall of 2010. Kenmore: Poem Unlimited and Not So Fast Robespierre are now available from Menendez Publishing. HouseCat Kung Fu: Strange Poems for Wild Children is also … Continued
Loss Glazier has made his home in New York state since 1988, when he left the sunny winters and sagebrush of the Southwest to move to Buffalo to participate in the dynamic literary energy of SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program. A native of the Tejano and Mexican-American culture of south Texas, Glazier at last feels at … Continued
An NEA literature grant recipient for his short fiction, Pelton has been a fixture on the Buffalo, New York, literary scene for over a decade, where his readings — funny, scandalous, and always entertaining — are the stuff of local legend. His stories have appeared in Fiction International, Gulf Coast, New Delta Review, and numerous … Continued