Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
(1818-1869)(Richard Haywarde) Humorist. Frederick S. Cozzens wrote “The Sparrowgrass Papers” (1856), a collection of humorous sketches. He was editor for seven years of the monthly paper, “Wine Press.”
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Countee Cullen
(1903-1946) Author, anthologist, editor. Countee Cullen was born in Kentucky. He came to New York City and soon after that, specifically, to Harlem. He was a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. He died at Sydenham Hospital.
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Mary E Cunningham
(1917-1986) Writer, editor. Mary E. Cunningham was born in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1917, and died in Cooperstown, New York, in 1986.
John Dickson Carr
(1906-1977)(Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, Roger Fairbairn) Writer, novelist. John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories.
Fred Hayden Carruth
(1862-1932) Writer.
John Cheever
(1912-1982) Short story writer, novelist. John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in early 1930s and befriended John Dos Passos, E. E Cummings, and James Agee. His stories were published in The New Republic, Colliers, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other magazines. Cheever moved to Crotonville, New … Continued
Tom M Catterson
(1943-2003) Poet. Tom Catterson lived in Brooklyn, New York.
Paddy Chayefsky
(1923-1981) Playwright, screenwriter. Paddy Chayefsky was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended City College of New York and Fordham University.
May Belle Curtis
Curtis wrote “Kathi of Skenesborough” (1914).