Ella Reeve Bloor
(1862-1951) Feminist, labor agitator, journalist. “We Are Many,” was born on Staten Island.
(1862-1951) Feminist, labor agitator, journalist. “We Are Many,” was born on Staten Island.
(1917-1973) Writer. Jane Bowles was born in New York City and lived on Staten Island, New York with her husband, Paul Bowles.
Lyricist, librettist. “The Cradle Will Rock,” lived in Manhattan.
Lyricist, librettist. “Mlle Modiste,” lived and died in Manhattan
(1864-1922) Writer, journalist. Nellie Bly was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She lived at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York, and died in New York City.
Writer, anthropologist. Was a professor at Columbia University
(1893-1973) Writer, playwright. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in New York, New York. He lived on West 36th Street in Manhattan, New York, in 1917.
(1910-1999) Novelist, writer, poet, composer, writer. Paul Frederic Bowles was born in Queens, New York. He published at 17, and abandoned college. In 1929, he began his life of travels with a trip to Paris, where he hoped to establish himself as a real poet. Gertrude Stein told him he wasn’t a real poet, he … Continued
(1915-2005) Writer, Nobel Prize winner. “Henderson The Rain King,” (1959) Bellow lived at 333 Riverside Drive at 107th Street, New York, New York.
(1795-1872) Editor. “The New York Herald.” In 1832, James Gordon Bennett, Sr. invested his savings of about $500 in the establishment of a four-page journal, which sold for a cent a copy and was called the “New York Herald.” Mr. Bennett was the sole reporter, editor, and contributor and he published out of a cellar … Continued