Abel Meeropol
(1903-1986) Writer, song-writer. Abel Meeropol taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York. He used the pseudonym Lewis Allan.
County: Westchester
Joseph Thomas Langland
(1917-2007) Poet. Joseph Langland lived in New Rochelle, New York, and died there in 2007.
James L Weil
(1929-2006) Poet, publisher. James L. Weil was born in New York. He lived in New Rochelle, New York, and founded the Elizabeth Press.
Walter Lowenfels
(1897-1976) Poet. Walter Lowenfels was born in New York City and died in Tarrytown, New York. He was editor of the communist newspaper the Daily Worker.
Elsie Bernice Washington
(1942-2009) Novelist. Elsie B. Washington was born in the Bronx, New York; she had lived in Yonkers, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Nathan Haskell Dole
(1852-1935) Editor, translator, author. Nathan Haskell Dole was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and lived most of his life in Massachusetts. At the age of seventy-six, he and his wife moved to New York City bo be near their daughter and grandchildren.
Brendan Gill
(1914-1997) Writer. Brendan Gill was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York, in 1997. Brendan Gill was a writer for The New Yorker for more than sixty years. He lived in Bronxville, New York.
Alfred A Knopf Jr
(1918-2009) Publisher. Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. was born in White Plains, New York and lived in New York City. Mr. Knopf was a founder of Atheneum Publishers.
Donald E Westlake
(1933-2008) Writer. Donald E. Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Yonkers and Albany, New York. He wrote novels, of which, most were set in New York City. He wrote under several pseudonyms including: Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, and Edwin West.
Irving Brecher
(1914-2008) Writer, screenwriter. Irving Brecher was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.