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Hortense Calisher

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(1911-2009) Author, novelist. Hortense Calisher was born and died in Manhattan, New York. The setting for much of her writing was Manhattan, New York. She was married to the writer and novelist, Curtis Harnack.

Leonie Fuller Adams

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(1899-1988) Poet. Leonie Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1948 to 1949.

Richard Carter

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(d.2007) Author. Richard Carter was a newspaper journalist and author who was born in New York and died in New City, New York in 2007.

Horace Gregory

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(1898-1982) Poet. Horace Gregory was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and lived in Palisades, New York.

Andrew C Wheeler

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(1835-1903)(TRINCULO, NYM CRINCKLE, J. P. MOWBRAY) Drama critic, writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City. Wheeler began newspaper work in 1857 on the staff of the New York Times, and later became city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel. While in Wisconsin he published “The Chronicles of Milwaukee” (1861). Soon after the outbreak … Continued

Kay Boyle

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(1902-1992) Writer. Kay Boyle lived in Nyack, New York, in the early 1940s and taught a night course at Nyack High School.

Winston Churchill

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(1871-1947) Novelist. Not the British prime minister you were thinking about, but the best-selling popular novelist around the turn of the century. Churchill was known for his historical and political novels. He lived in South Nyack, New York.

Ben Hecht

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(1894-1964) Playwright, journalist, novelist. Ben Hecht was born in New York City. After studying at the University of Wisconsin he moved to Chicago where he became a journalist, became friends with other aspiring Chicago writers such as Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Carl Sandburg. He worked for the Chicago Daily news. He lived … Continued