John Dickson Carr
(1906-1977)(Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, Roger Fairbairn) Writer, novelist. John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories.
County: Westchester
John Cheever
(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
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
(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.”
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Mary E Cunningham
(1917-1986) Writer, editor. Mary E. Cunningham was born in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1917, and died in Cooperstown, New York, in 1986.
Rebecca Harding Davis
(1831-1910) Writer, novelist. Rebecca Harding Davis died at the home of her son, Richard, in Mount Kisco, New York.
Horace Greeley
(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
Elizabeth (Chase) Akers
(1832-1911) Poet. “Rock Me to Sleep”
John Kendrick Bangs
Writer, editor. “Tiddledywink Tales,” was born in Yonkers and spent much of his life there.He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia’s literary magazine . After graduation in 1883, Bangs entered Columbia Law School.
Bronson Howard
(1842-1903) Playwright. Bronson Howard was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey. He worked as a journalist in New York for the Evening Mail, the Tribune, and the Evening Post. He had a home in New Rochelle, New York.