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County: Rockland

Aline Griffith

(1923-2017) Author. Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, and died in Madrid, Spain. She was also known at Aline, Countess of Romanones.

Bob Wolff

(1920-2017) Author. Bob Wolff was born in New York City and died in South Nyack, New York. His memoir is titled, ” It’s Not Who Won Or Lost The Game–It’s How You Sold The Beer.”

Daniel Carter Beard

(1850-1941) Author. Daniel Carter Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Suffern, New York. He wrote articles for St. Nicholas Magazine and attended art school in New York City.

Alvin Johnson

(1874-1971) Author. Alvin Johnson was born in Dakota County Nebraska, and died in Nyack, New York. He was co-founder of the New School in New York City.

Thomas Berger

(1924-2014) Author. Thomas Berger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Nyack, New York. He authored more than twenty novels.

Mary C Henderson

(1928-2012) Author. Mary C. Henderson was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Congers, New York. She earned a Ph.D. in theater history, dramatic criticism and literature from New York University, she had taught theater history at New York University, and had written several books.

Marya Zaturenska

(1902-1982) Poet. Marya Zaturenska lived in Palisades, New York. She was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.