Lionel Casson
(1914-2009) Writer. Lionel Casson was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a professor of classics at New York University.
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Elise Nada Cowen
(1933-1962) Poet. Elise Nada Cowen was born on Long Island, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was a part of the Beat generation. Most of her work was destroyed by her parents at the time of her death. Some of her works are included in “Women Of The Beat Generation: Writers, Artists … Continued
Joseph Ceravolo
(1934-1988) Poet. Joseph Ceravolo was a poet associated with the New York School. He was born in Queens, New York, but lived much of his life in New Jersey.
John Clarke
(1933-1992) Poet. John “Jack” Clarke was born in Ohio in 1933 and taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for twenty-nine years.
Elise Cowen
(1933-1962) Poet. Elise Cowen was born on Long Island, New York, and died in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. She was a part of the Beat generation.
Bloodgood Haviland Cutter
(1817-1906) Poet. Bloodgood Cutter lived in Little Neck, New York.
Marjorie Sewell Cautley
(1891-1954) Writer. Orphaned at the age of twelve, Marjorie Sewell Cautley was sent to live with relatives in Brooklyn, New York. She was a landscape architect who had many articles published in the magazines, “Landscape Architecture,” “House and Garden,” “American City,” and the “Journal of the Institute of Planners.”
Hortense Calisher
(1911-2009) Author, novelist. Hortense Calisher was born and died in Manhattan, New York. The setting for much of her writing was Manhattan, New York. She was married to the writer and novelist, Curtis Harnack.
Joseph (Irish poet) Campbell
(1879-1944) Poet, lyricist. Joseph Campbell, an Irish poet, was a member of the Fordham University faculty from 1928 to 1932.
Guy Wetmore Carryl
(1873-1904) Humorist, poet. Guy Wetmore Carryl was born in New York City in 1873. He graduated from Columbia University in 1895 and died at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City in 1904.