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County: Ulster

Paula Danziger

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(1944-2004) Writer. Paula Danziger was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Manhattan, New York. She lived in Manhattan, New York, and had a home near Woodstock, New York.

Manuel Komroff

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(1890-1974) Writer, novelist, editor. Manuel Komroff lived in Woodstock, New York. He is buried in Woodstock Artists’ Cemetery, off Rock City Road, Woodstock, New York.

Carlton Mabee

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Historian, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner. “The American Leonardo: A Life Of Samuel FB Morse,” “Black Freedom,” and more.

Dan Propper

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(1937-2003) Poet, translator. “The Tale of the Amazing Tramp” (1977), “The Fable of the Final Hour” (1958), Dan Propper was born at Coney Island Hospital, lived in Woodstock, New York and Saugerties, and died in Saugerties, New York in 2003.

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.

John Burroughs

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(1837-1921) Naturalist, essayist, and writer. Born in Roxbury, NY. Wrote: “Walt Whitman: Poet and Person” (1867), the first work to give adequate recognition to Whiteman’s genius. Also wrote “Wake Robin” (1871). Burroughs lived and worked for the last 25 years of his life in the Slabsides cabin near West Park in Ulster County, and the … Continued

Hart Crane

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(1899-1932) Poet, writer. Hart Crane arrived in New York in 1916. He lived above Margaret Anderson in the William Cullen Bryant on 16th Street. He also lived on East 15th, 11th and West 10th Brooklyn Heights by 1925. He lived with friends, from 1923 to 1925, in Woodstock, New York; he lived in Brooklyn Heights, … Continued

Barbara Adams

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Barbara Adams was born in Manhattan and moved to New Paltz, New York, when she was 9. She earned a B.A. and M.A. at SUNY New Paltz, and the Ph.D. from NYU. She was a professor of English specializing in American poetry and fiction at Pace University in New York City for 18 years. Now … Continued