(1943-2006) Novelist, war correspondent. Nicholas Proffitt was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1943. He was a West Point cadet, but dropped out after one semester. He was a war correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek, and wrote three novels. He died in Naples, Florida in 2006.
(1908-2006) Author. Robert L. Scott, Jr. was born in Macon, Georgia in 1908 and died in Macon, Georgia in 2006. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1932 and served in the United States Air Force from 1932 to 1957. He was assigned to Mitchell Field, New York in 1933. He wrote about … Continued
Halvard Johnson was born in Newburgh, New York, and grew up in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Educated at Gorton High School in Yonkers, New York, and at Ohio Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago, he has received grants in poetry and fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland … Continued
Janet Hamill was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her B.A. in English from Rowan University and spent many years living in New York City and travelling in the United States, Europe and Africa before moving with her husband to Orange County, New York. She is a full-time writer and recipient of the … Continued
(1838-1888) Fiction writer. Edward Payson Roe was born in Moodna, New York and died in Cornwall. He was also a pastor in Highland Falls, New York, approximately a mile from West Point. There his addresses on topics of the Civil War gained for him some notice as a speaker. In 1874 he removed to Cornwall-on-Hudson, … Continued
Writer. “My Brother’s Keeper”
(1806-1867) Editor, journalist, belles-lettrist. Nathaniel Parker Willis lived in Owego, New York, in the late 1830s and early 1840s and, also, lived in Orange County, New York. He wrote a series of “Letters from Under a Bridge” for the “New York Mirror,” later collected in the volume “A l’Abri; or, The Tent Pitched” (1839).
(1847-1902) Novelist.
(1735-1813) Author and agriculturalist. Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur settled (circa 1769) on a farm in Orange County, where he wrote “Letters from an American Farmer” (1782).
(1872-1939) Writer of Westerns. During his lifetime, over 13 million copies of his books were sold. He is said to have opened up the west to millions of readers in the early 1900s. Works: “Heritage of The Desert,” “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1912), “The Day of the Beast” (1922), etc. He spent winters in … Continued