(1923-2007) Novelist, writer. Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1923, and died in New York in 2007. He wrote more than 30 books and was twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Mailer was co-founder of “The Village Voice,” a New York newspaper. He was married to Norris Church Mailer.
(1922-2007) Biographer, historian. Peggy Samuels and her husband, Howard, wrote or edited books on art and United States history.
(1909-1962) Novelist. William Lindsay Gresham was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Manhattan, New York. He moved to New York when he was a child.
(1916-2007)Stage and Screen Writer. David Shaw, the brother of Irwin Shaw (writer)was a Tony-Award-winning writer and also wrote scripts for many highly regared shows of television’s golden age (for example “Playhouse 90” and “Studio One”). For the cinema, Shaw worte the screenplay for “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.” Shaw served with the Army … Continued
(1937 – 1966) Writer, folksinger. Richard Farina was a member of the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties. He wrote in Greenwich Village and married Carolyn Hester, a successful folksinger. His friendship with Bob Dylan is a central topic of David Hajdu’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book ‘Positively 4th Street.’
(1917-1997) Novelist. William Eastlake was born in New York City.
(1926-2007) Historian, writer. Raul Hilberg wrote about the Holocaust.
(1930-1995) Short story writer, novelist, essayist. Stanley Elkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in St. Louis, Missouri.
(1916-1986) Novelist. Stanley Bernard Ellin was a mystery writer. He was born in and died in Brooklyn, New York.
(1948-2007) Performance poet. Sekou Sundiata was born in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, and died in Valhalla, New York.