Letter: C

(1936-2005) Writer, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop. Frank Conroy was born and spent his early years in New York, New York.

(1908-2004) Writer, journalist. Alistair Cooke was born in Salford, England, and died in Manhattan, New York.

(1899-1973) Playwright. Noel Coward lived at the Hotel des Artistes in the 1950s.

(1898-1989) Critic, poet, editor. Born in Belasco, Pennsylvania; lived at 107 Bedford St., 88 W. 3rd St., and 35 Bank St. He also lived at 360 W. 22nd St. and on E. 55th St.; Cowley won a scholarship to Harvard in 1915. After serving in France during WWI, he returned to Harvard in 1920, writing … Continued

(1894-1962)(Edward Estlin Cummings) E. E. Cummings is a poet whose work is noted for, among other things, its eccentric typography, language, and punctuation. Among his 15 volumes of poetry are “Tulips and Chimneys” (1923), “Is 5” (1926), and “Ninety-five Poems” (1958). His experiences of being held in France as a prisoner during World War I … Continued

(1909-2004) Writer, song writer, editor. “Broadside,” lived with her husband, writer GORDON FRIESEN, at the Frederick Douglass housing project and at 212 W. 98th Street.

(1820-1871) Poet. Alice Cary lived with her sister, Phoebe Cary, also a poet, at 52 East 20th Street, Manhattan, New York, where they conducted a literary salon, inviting such guests as Horace Greeley, Herman Melville, George Ripley, and Bayard Taylor.

(1925-2003) Screenwriter. “The Last Word of the Bluebird,” grew up in Manhattan.

(1938-1981) Writer, poet, critic. Born in Havana, Cuba. She lived in New York City from 1962-’79. She founded “Arelito,” a magazine offering an alternate vision of US Cuban culture. She was also a professor of psychology at Rutgers University. A collection of her poems, “Palabras Juntan Revolution,” was published in 1981.

(1873-1947) Novelist, short-story writer. Willa Cather is considered one of the great American writers of the 20th century. She lived at 60 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, then 82 Washington Place, 5 Bank Street, and later at the Hotel Grosvenor. After some time working as a journalist and a teacher in Pittsburgh, … Continued