(1913-1966) Poet, writer. Delmore Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University in 1935 and lived at 775 Greenwich Street. His last address was 70 West 46th Street. He was an editor of the Partisan Review (1943-55).
(1925-2004) Poet. Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, and died in Iowa City, Iowa. He taught at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
(1887-1954) Poet. Leonard Bacon was born in Solvay, New York in 1887. Bacon grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Yale University in 1909. He moved to Berkeley, California and taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
(1938-1988) Fiction writer, poet. Raymond Carver was a Guggenheim fellow in 1979, twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983, Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in … Continued
(1915-1989) Writer. “The Black Stallion.” Farley wrote the first of the “Black Stallion” series when he was a freshman at Columbia University.
Writer. “History of Women”
(1916-1986) Novelist. Writer of numerous mystery novels, most notably the Travis McGee series which began in 1964 with “The Deep Blue Good-Bye” and ended in 1985 with “The Lonely Silver Rain.”
(1871-1932) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist. “A Splendid Hazard”
(1842-1921) Writer. Seth Newhouse wrote many manuscripts/papers about the formation of the Iroquois Nation. It is believed that Seth Newhouse wrote the version of “The Great Law” used, without proper credit, by A. C. Parker.
(1846-1898) Writer, novelist. Edward Noyes Westcott was born in Syracuse, New York, and died at his home at 990 James Street, Syracuse, New York. He worked on “David Harum, A Story of American Life” while in Meacham Lake, New York for tuberculosis treatment.