John Charles Fremont
(1813-1890) Explorer, surveyor, writer. “The Life Of Col. John Charles Fremont And His Narrative Of Explorations And Adventures In Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, and California,” died on Staten Island.
County: Richmond
Sidney Howard Gay
(1814-1888) Abolitionist, editor. New York and Chicago Tribunes, lived in Livingston from 1848 until his death.
Maxim Gorky
(1868-1936) Writer. “Foma Gordeyev” (1902)
Langston Hughes
(1902-1967) Poet, writer, “Poet Laureate of Harlem.” Langston Hughes worked, growing onions on a truck farm on Staten Island, in 1922. Hughes was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Mr. Hughes moved to Manhattan, New York, from Missouri in 1921; he studied at Columbia University, and later lived at 20 … Continued
Anna Harriet Leonowens
(c.1834-c.1914) Writer, tutor of the 67 children of the King of Siam. “The Romance of the Harem” (1873), moved to Staten Island and ran a school on Richmond Terrace in West New Brighton.
Edwin Markham
(1852-1940) Poet. Edwin Markham lived in Westerleigh, New York.
Edgar Wilson Nye
(1850-1896) Writer. Edgar Wilson Nye lived on Staten Island, New York.
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.