(1941-2007) Historian. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1941, and died in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2007. A professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1986, Fox-Genovese taught previously at the University of Rochester and the State University of New York at Binghamton.
(1894-1982) Publisher, editor. James Sibley Watson was born in New York and worked in Rochester, New York. Watson was the publisher of “The Dial” from 1920-1929.
Richard Foerster worked on the staff of the literary magazine Chelsea beginning in 1978 and served as its editor from 1994 to 2001. More recently, he was also founding editor of Chautauqua Literary Journal. A recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award and Poetry’s Bess Hokin Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for … Continued
Thom Ward holds degrees in English from The College of Wooster and the SUNY College at Brockport. Currently, he is Editor/Development Director for BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of American poetry and poetry in translation. His poetry books include Small Boat with Oars of Different Size,published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999 and … Continued
Poet, translator, publisher. Born in Lisbon, Maine. He lived in Brockport, and taught at the State University of New York at Brockport. He was the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Poulin was … Continued
Writer. Born in Riga. Wrote “Nothing To Say,” “The Witches of New York,” “The Lady of the Lake” and others.
(1820-1906) Reformer, editor, publisher. Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. She received her education in rural Monroe County, New York where she began teaching in 1846. She helped launch the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York in 1852, which brought her into the women’s suffrage movement. In 1868, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, … Continued
Playwright. Born in Rochester. After graduating from Yale in 1919, Barry worked with George Pierce Baker at the famous 47 Dramatic Workshop at Harvard until 1922. In the next 20 years, Barrys plays were produced on the New York stage. Among the more successful plays are “Holiday” (1929), “Hotel Universe” (1930), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” (1931), … Continued
(1818-1895) Abolitionist, orator, writer. Frederick Douglass founded his newspaper, the “North Star,” in Rochester, New York, after moving there in 1847. The newspaper ran for seventeen years. One of the Douglass homes was at 247 Alexander Street. It was burned down in 1872, after which he moved to Washington, DC. Douglass died in 1895 and … Continued
(1825-1907) Novelist. Mary Jane Holmes was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and died in Brockport, New York. She moved to Brockport, New York, in about 1854.