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Gian Carlo Menotti

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(1911-2007) Librettist. Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy in 1911 and died in Monaco in 2007. He lived for many years in a house known as Capricorn in Mount Kisco, New York.

Ernesto Lecuona

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(1895/96-1963) Composer, song writer. Lecuona was born in Cuba in 1895 or 1896 and died in the Canary Islands in 1963. Songs include, “Siboney,” “Malagueña,” and “Andalucia.” Lecuona’s final resting place is in the Gate Of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Westbrook Pegler

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(1894-1969) Journalist, writer. Westbrook Pegler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in 1969 and is interred in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Patricia Goedicke Robinson

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(1931-2006) Patricia Robinson was born Patricia Ann McKenna, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1931. She taught in the writing program of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. Robinson died in Missoula, Montana, in 2006.

Mr Boria Sax

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Boria Sax holds a doctorate in German and Intellectual History from SUNY Buffalo. His publications include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals and the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, … Continued

John Barr

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John Barr has pursued parallel careers as poet and investment banker for the past 25 years. He has founded the country’s largest natural gas marketing company and a prominent investment-banking boutique. He is President Emeritus of the Poetry Society of America, and Chairman of the Board of Bennington College. Story Line Press published the trade … Continued

Frank Dempster Sherman

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(1860-1916) Poet. Frank Dempster Sherman was born in Peekskill, New York and attended Peekskill Military Academy. His home, from 1871 to 1887 was at 953 Paulding. He was the author of “Madrigals and Catches.”

E. D. E. N. Southworth

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(1819-1899) Writer, Novelist. E. D. E. N. Southworth visited her son at 103 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York. She wrote over sixty novels.

Augustus Thomas

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(1857-1934) Playwright. He was a special writer and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York newspapers, and became editor and proprietor of the “Kansas City Mirror” in 1899. He soon left the field of journalism and became a playwright. He is the author of the popular dramas “Arizona,” “In Mizzoura,” “The Burglar,” “The … Continued