Thomas Beer
(1889-1940) Writer, biographer.
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Claude Brown
(1937-2002) Writer. Claude Brown was born in and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a student at the Wiltwyck School in Esopus, New York, which later relocated to Illington Road, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Margaret Bourke-White
(1904-1971) Photographer, journalist. “Shooting the Russian War” (1942). “North of the Danube” (with ERSKINE CALDWELL) (1939); studied at Columbia University in 1922.
Louis Bromfield
(1896-1956) Writer. Louis Bromfield studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(1892-1973) Author. Pearl Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is famous for her vivid, compassionate … Continued
Murray Burnett
(1911-1997) Writer. “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” (later made into the movie “Casablanca”)(1942). Burnett received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1931.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
(1858-1954) Botanist, writer, poet. “The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture” (1914). Bailey was a professor at Cornell University.
Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
(1870-1934) Writer. Mary Shell Hoke Bacon lived in Manhattan, New York. She was also know as Dolores Bacon.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
(1842-1914) Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio. He wrote many collections of poetry, short stories, and essays.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
(1960-1988) Graffiti writer, artist. “The Walls of New York.” Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Manhattan, New York.