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George Oppen

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(1908-1984) Poet. George Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, and lived in New York at different times during his life. H received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for excellence in literature in 1980.

Frank (Francis) McCourt

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(1930-2009) Writer. Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a teacher in New York City for many years and lived in Manhattan, New York, and Roxbury, Connecticut.

Steve Mason

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(1940-2005) Poet. Steve Mason was born in Brooklyn, New York. His poem, “The Wall Within” was read at the 1984 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D C.

Lionel Casson

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(1914-2009) Writer. Lionel Casson was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a professor of classics at New York University.

Anna Cora Mowatt

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(1819-1870) Poet. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie was born in Bordeaux, France, and died in Twickenham, England. She and her first husband lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.

Matthew Josephson

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(1899-1978) Author, poet. Matthew Josephson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote on nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American economic history.

Chester Simon Kallman

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(1921-1975) Poet, librettist. Chester Kallman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and lived most of his life in New York. He was known for his collaborations with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky.