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Jane Bowles

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(1917-1973) Writer. Jane Bowles was born in New York City and lived on Staten Island, New York with her husband, Paul Bowles.

Nellie Bly

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(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.

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman

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(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.

Paul Bowles

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(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

Saul Bellow

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(1915-2005) Writer, Nobel Prize winner. “Henderson The Rain King,” (1959) Bellow lived at 333 Riverside Drive at 107th Street, New York, New York.

James Gordan Bennett Sr

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(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