County: Tompkins
Jeannette Edwards Rattray
(1893-1974) Historian of Long Island, writer. Author of “East Hampton History” (1953). “Fifty Years of the Maidstone Club,” and “Trapeze Song.”
Carl Sagan
(1934-1996) Astronomer, writer. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Henrik Willem Van Loon
(1882-1944) Writer. “The Story of Mankind” (1921). Van Loon was a professor at Cornell University.
A R Ammons
(1926-2001) Poet. Archie Randolph Ammons was the author of many collections of poetry. Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
(1858-1954) Botanist, writer, poet. “The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture” (1914). Bailey was a professor at Cornell University.
Margaret Bourke-White
(1904-1971) Photographer, journalist. “Shooting the Russian War” (1942). “North of the Danube” (with ERSKINE CALDWELL) (1939); studied at Columbia University in 1922.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(1892-1973) Author. Pearl Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is famous for her vivid, compassionate … Continued
Murray Burnett
(1911-1997) Writer. “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” (later made into the movie “Casablanca”)(1942). Burnett received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1931.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
(1882-1961) Writer, novelist. Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most prolific female writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.