(1896-1957) Author, illustrator. Helen Sewell was born in Mare Island, California, and died in New York City. She was a children’s book illustrator and author. She was the winner of a Caldecott Honor in 1955, and she illustrated several Newbery Honor novels.
(1916-1983) Author. Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, New York, and wrote and illustrated children’s books.
(1891-1954) Writer. Orphaned at the age of twelve, Marjorie Sewell Cautley was sent to live with relatives in Brooklyn, New York. She was a landscape architect who had many articles published in the magazines, “Landscape Architecture,” “House and Garden,” “American City,” and the “Journal of the Institute of Planners.”
(1921-2009) Writer. Bernard Gladstone was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in University Park, Florida. He wrote a home repair column for The New York Times and published several books.
(1890-1957) Poet. Elia Dahar Abu Madi was born in Al-Muhaydithah, Lebanon. He moved to New York in 1916.
(1894-1976) Poet. Charles Reznikoff was born in Brooklyn, New York.
(1922-2008) Poet. Samuel Wolf Exler was born in 1922 and died in 2008. He lived in New York City. His poetry was published in many journals including American Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Global City Review, Poetry East, and Plainsong.
(1873-1941) Poet. Lola Ridge was born in Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in 1907. She lived in New York and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941.
(1904-1978) Poet. Louis Zukofsky was born in New York and attended Yiddish theatres in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. He studied English at, and received his master’s degree from, Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, in 1927.
(1902-1981) Poet. Gwendolyn Bennett was born in Giddings, Texas, and later moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York. She was an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. She wrote a column, “The Ebony Flute,” published in the periodical “Opportunity.”