Edgar Wilson Nye
(1850-1896) Writer. Edgar Wilson Nye lived on Staten Island, New York.
County: Richmond
Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822-1903) Landscape architect, writer of documentary works. Bought, in 1848, a Staten Island farm named The Woods, where he lived and promoted agricultural reform. “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom” (1861).
Emily Post
(1873-1960) Writer, etiquette expert. Emily Post was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Manhattan, New York. She lived on Staten Island and wrote “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage” (1922).
William Allen Rogers
(1854-1931) Political cartoonist, writer, children’s book illustrator. “Toby Tyler,” lived in Saint George in the late 1800s.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
(1774-1821) The first American born Roman Catholic saint. “Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of Elizabeth Seton,” spent summers in Saint George; her grandfather was rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Richmondtown.
Theodore Sturgeon
(1918-1985) Science fiction writer. Theodore Sturgeon was born in Staten Island, New York in 1918.
James Gould Cozzens
(1903-1978) Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner. Cozzens was educated at Staten Island Academy in Staten Island, New York. During World War II, Cozzens served in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
George William Curtis
(1824-1892) Writer, orator, editor. George William Curtis was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in New York City.
Dorothy Day
(1897-1980) Writer, social activist, editor. “The Catholic Worker,” lived on Staten Island and was buried in Resurrection Cemetery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) Writer, social activist. Ralph Waldo Emerson often visited his brother, Richmond County Judge William Emerson, who lived in Staten Island, New York from 1837 to 1864.