Hubert Selby Jr
(1928-2004) Writer, novelist. Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.
(1928-2004) Writer, novelist. Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.
(1896-1972) Writer novelist. Betty Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York.
(1857-1938) Lyricist, librettist. “Hurly Burly” (1898), “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.” (1916), was born in Brooklyn and died in Bayside.
(1922-2004) Poet. Irving Stettner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 and died in Dallas, Pennsylvania in 2004.
Writer, lyricist, social activist. “Bound For Glory,” lived in Coney Island. “Songs to Grow On,” died at Creedmoor Hospital
(1936-2002) Poet. June Jordan was born in Harlem, New York, and lived as a child in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, and attended Barnard College in Manhattan, New York.
(1862-1924) Novelist, writer. Laura Jean Libbey was born in and lived most of her life in Brooklyn, New York.
(1915-2005) Playwright, writer. Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, New York, and lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, as a child.
(1891-1980) Novelist, writer. Henry Miller was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York. He graduated second in his class from Eastern District High School in Brooklyn, New York. He dropped out of City College after two months.
Writer, editor. The New York Post, was born in Brooklyn.