(1851-1926) Writer, editor. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop lived in Manhattan, New York, and died in Hawthorne, New York. She was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter and was married to George Parsons Lathrop. Following her husband’s death, she became a nun and was known as Mother Mary Alphonsa.
(1905-1971) Novelist. Manfred Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote under the pseudonym, Ellery Queen, with his cousin Frederic Dannay. Mr. Lee lived in Mount Vernon, New York.
(1902-1992) Writer, journalist. Max Lerner died in Manhattan, New York.
(1914-2003) Writer. Howard Fast was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He lived, in the early 1940s, in Tarrytown, New York. He also lived in Manhattan, New York.
(1893-1960) Writer, novelist. John Phillips Marquand spent part of his childhood in Rye, New York.
(1909-1979) Literary critic, biographer. Maxwell Geismar taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years.
19th century playwright, novelist, and editor. Born in Brooklyn. He had little formal education, but learned to be a printer through practical experience gained before he was 20. From 1862 to 1865 he served as a private in the Union Army, and at the end of the Civil War got a job in a New … Continued
Writer. “With Malice Toward Some”
(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