Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
(1831-1919) Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England in 1831. Barr moved with three of her daughters to New York in 1869.
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Donald Barthelme
(1931-1989) Novelist and short fiction writer. Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1931 and died in Houston, Texas in 1989. He was the author of many short stories and novels.
Hamilton Basso
(1904-1964) Writer. Hamilton Basso was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1904, and moved in 1926 to Greenwich Village in New York City where he lived for a few years. He was the author of eleven novels.
Alfred Bester
(1913-1987) Novelist. Alfred Bester was born in Manhattan, New York in 1913. He was a science fiction writer.
Arna Bontemps
(1902-1973) Novelist, poet. Arna Bontemps lived in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the 1920s.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
(1930-1999) Novelist. Marion Zimmer Bradley was a science fiction writer, and the author of the Darkover science fiction series that began with “The Sword of Aldones” in 1962.
Harold Brodkey
(1930-1996) Author. Harold Brodkey was an American author born in Illinois and who died in New York City.
John Franklin Bardin
(1916-1981) Writer. John Franklin Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1916 and moved to Greenwich Village, New York City in 1943. He was the author of three crime novels written from 1946 to 1948.
Leonard Bernstein
(1918-1990) Composer, writer. Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 and died in New York City in 1990.
John Dudley Ball
(1911-1988) Author. John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York in 1911.