Margo Taft Stever’s collection of poetry, Frozen Spring (2002), was the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky (Introduction by Denise Levertov), won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the founder and current board member of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (www.writerscenter.org), and the … Continued
(1923-2009) Author. Loren Singer was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Valhalla, New York. He was the author of “The Parallax View.” He lived in Mamaroneck, New York. In the 1950s he began writing for the TV shows “Westinghouse Playhouse,” “Kraft Television Theater” and “Studio One” in New York City.
(1855-1921) Novelist. Edgar Saltus was born in New York City.
(1922-2009) Screenwriter. Richard Berg was born in Manhattan, New York. He wrote and produced many television shows.
(1921-2009) Editor, critic, writer. Francis Mason was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and died in Rye, New York.
(1849-1889) Poet. Francis Saltus Saltus was born in New York City and died in Tarrytown, New York.
(1930-1988) Poet. Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York. He was a columnist for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1984 and lived for many years in the Westbeth artists’s community in Manhattan, New York.
(1903-1986) Writer, song-writer. Abel Meeropol taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York. He used the pseudonym Lewis Allan.
(1917-2007) Poet. Joseph Langland lived in New Rochelle, New York, and died there in 2007.
(1929-2006) Poet, publisher. James L. Weil was born in New York. He lived in New Rochelle, New York, and founded the Elizabeth Press.