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Edgar Pangborn

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(1909-1976) Novelist. Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City in 1909 and graduated from the Brooklyn Friends School in 1924. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Bruce Harrison and Neil Ryder.

Alf Evers

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(1905-2004) Historian. Alf Evers was born in the Bronx, New York in 1905, and died in Shady, New York in 2004. He lived much of his life in Ulster County, New York.

Saul Bennett

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(1936-2006) Poet. Bennett came to poetry after a career in Manhattan. He began writing poems following the sudden death of his daughter from a brain aneurysm in 1994. His first poetry collection, “New Fields and Other Stones: On a Child’s Death,” was selected in 1998 to launch a new publishing imprint, Archer Books, and received … Continued

Shirley Powell

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Shirley Powell was born in Ohio and moved to New York City in 1971, during the Women’s Movement. She coordinated a feminist reading group at New York University in the early 70’s and compiled an anthology of their poetry: Womansong, published by The Poet’s Press. After her novel Running Wild was published by Avon Books … Continued

Barbara Boncek

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Barbara Boncek has published her poems in many small literary journals. She was on the editorial board of Oxalis, a literary journal that was published for several years in Stone Ridge, NY She was a member of the Catskill Caravan, a group of poets who read throughout the Hudson Valley and the New England States. … Continued

Claude Brown

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(1937-2002) Writer. Claude Brown was born in and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a student at the Wiltwyck School in Esopus, New York, which later relocated to Illington Road, Yorktown Heights, New York.

Sojourner Truth

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(1797-1833)(ISABELLA HARDENBURGH) – Anti-slavery and women’s equality activist, speaker. “Ain’t I A Woman,” was born into slavery near Kingston and later became a passionate advocate for equality.