Jack Newfield (1938-2004) Journalist, writer. Jack Newfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and was a graduate of Hunter College. He was a writer for The Village Voice for almost 25 years.
(1915-2019) Novelist. Herman Wouk was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Palm Springs, California.
Writer, playwright. “The Great Divide,” was educated at the Riverside Academy. The Faith Healer (1909),
(1890-1957) Writer, novelist, head of the Book of the Month Club. He wrote 18 fiction titles, including “Parnassus on Wheels” and 16 poetry titles. “Kitty Folye” 1939,”Where the Blue Begins” 1922. His writing studio is preserved in the Christopher Morley County Park, in Roslyn, New York. He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery in Greenvale, New … Continued
Ellery Queen was the pseudonym used by cousins Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay. Dannay lived in Nassau County, New York. Manfred Lee lived in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York.
(1908-1981) Novelist, playwright. William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California. He lived in Mill Neck, New York for six months, and stayed at the McBurney YMCA, 215 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York when he first moved to New York in the 1920s. In 1991 the United States Postal Service issued its nineth stamp … Continued
Writer. Published under the pseudonyms Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans “Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade in Biography,”1955. He lived in an old school house in Smithtown,Bethpage. Auntie Mame made Tanner a millionaire ,he became the first author to have three books on the Times list at once, when he published “Guestward Ho!” and “The Loving … Continued
(1878-1942) Playwright, composer, actor, lyricist, librettist. George M. Cohan wrote numerous Broadway musicals and straight plays. He had his first big Broadway hit in 1904 with the show “Little Johnny Jones,” which introduced his tunes “Give My Regards to Broadway” and “The Yankee Doodle Boy”. His shows “Forty-five Minutes from Broadway” (1905), “George Washington, Jr.” … Continued
(1905-1982) Writer, novelist. Frederic Dannay wrote under the pseudonym, Ellery Queen, with his cousin Manfred Lee. He lived in Nassau County, New York.
(1898-1981) Writer, historian. Ms. Durant wrote “The Story of Civilization” (with Will Durant). She lived in Nassau County and on Staten Island and spent her summers from 1919 to 1928 in Woodstock, New York.