Elia Kazan
(1909-2003) Writer, screenwriter. Elia Kazan was born in Constantinople, Turkey, and died in Manhattan, New York. He moved to Manhattan from Istanbul in 1913 and attended schools in Manhattan, where he lived and died.
(1909-2003) Writer, screenwriter. Elia Kazan was born in Constantinople, Turkey, and died in Manhattan, New York. He moved to Manhattan from Istanbul in 1913 and attended schools in Manhattan, where he lived and died.
(1917-1986) Writer, editor. Mary E. Cunningham was born in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1917, and died in Cooperstown, New York, in 1986.
(1831-1910) Writer, novelist. Rebecca Harding Davis died at the home of her son, Richard, in Mount Kisco, New York.
(1864-1916) Journalist, writer. “With Both Armies in South Africa”
Novelist, book reviewer, editor, poet, editor of the Masses. Dell worked in Chicago in the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post. In 1913, Dell left Chicago for New York and joined MAX EASTMAN at his paper the Masses. He settled in Greenwich Village. He and the Masses staff in 1917 were indicted for … Continued
(1906-1977)(Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, Roger Fairbairn) Writer, novelist. John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories.
(1912-1982) Short story writer, novelist. John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in early 1930s and befriended John Dos Passos, E. E Cummings, and James Agee. His stories were published in The New Republic, Colliers, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other magazines. Cheever moved to Crotonville, New … Continued
(1818-1869)(Richard Haywarde) Humorist. Frederick S. Cozzens wrote “The Sparrowgrass Papers” (1856), a collection of humorous sketches. He was editor for seven years of the monthly paper, “Wine Press.”
(1811-1872) Editor, publisher. Founder of the New York Tribune in 1841, a large paper with a circulation of 250,000. The Tribune printed the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, etc. There is a statue of Greeley in City Hall park. He was the first newspaper editor to allow by-lines. On August 19, … Continued