Robert Dunn
(1977-2008) Robert Dunn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a former editor of “Medicinal Purposes Literary Review” and “New Press Literary Quarterly.” He was editor of “Asbestos.”
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L Rust Hills
(1924-2008) Editor, writer. L. Rust Hills was born in and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was fiction editor for Esquire magazine.
S J Perelman
(1904-1979) Writer, humorist. S. J. Perelman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a frequent contributor to “The New Yorker.”
Henry Morford
(1823-1881) Author, journalist. Henry Morford was born in New Monmouth, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Morford had poems published in the New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Soon after 1855 he moved to New York City, where he was employed as an editorial writer for newspapers, including the New York Atlas. Morford met with other … Continued
Baynard Rush Hall
(1798-1863) Novelist. Baynard Rush Hall was a resident for a time in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Helen Yglesias
(1915-2008) Novelist. Helen Yglesias wrote novels about the lives of women. She had also worked as an editor at The Nation magazine.
Gilbert Sorrentino
(1929-2006) Novelist, poet. Gilbert Sorrentino was born in and died in Brooklyn, New York.
Mary Virginia Terhune
(1830-1922) Novelist. Mary Virginia Terhune moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1884. She wrote under the name Marion Harland.
Ronald Sukenick
(1932-2004) Novelist. Ronald Sukenick was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Louis Joseph Vance
(1879-1933) Novelist. Louis Joseph Vance attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He died in 1933 in his New York apartment.