(1932-2007) Writer. Robert Anton Wilson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932 and died in Capitola, California in 2007. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnical College and New York University. He was co-author of “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” which included “The Eye in the Pyramid,” “The Golden Apple,” and “Leviathan.”
(1922-2006) Author, screenwriter. Gerald Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922, and died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 2006. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University in 1942 and 1947. He wrote the novel, “The Last Angry Man” (1956).
Fiction writer, essayist, and prose poet, Jessica Treat’s most recent book is Not a Chance (FC2, 2000), a novella and collection of stories. Her first book, A Robber in the House, a collection of short-short stories, was published by Coffee House Press in 1993. “There is a joy in reading [A Robber in the House], … Continued
(1918-2006)(Frank Morrison Spillane) Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He attended schools in Brooklyn and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1935. He purchased land, built a home, and wrote many of his books near Newburgh, New York. His … Continued
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Rockland County, New York, John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Review, Barrow Street, Laurel Review, West Branch, the anthologies Blooming … Continued
(1936-2021) Poet. Robert Hershon published more than a dozen books of poems and his work appeared in such publications as The Nation, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, and New American Writing, as well as many anthologies. Mr. Hershon won two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the … Continued
Burt Kimmelman is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he lived most of his life. He has pursued parallel careers as poet and literary scholar for the past 25 years. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry … Continued
Rob Edelman, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a film journalist, critic, historian, and lecturer. Since 1981, he has been a contributing editor of Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, and has worked on Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia, Family Film Guide, and Classic Movie Guide. He teaches film history at the University at Albany (SUNY) and offers … Continued
Author of five books of poetry, two critical works, one novel, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 50 published essays, and editor of three anthologies, D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Long Beach, California. Her Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987) was the first comprehensive … Continued