(1871-1947) Novelist. Not the British prime minister you were thinking about, but the best-selling popular novelist around the turn of the century. Churchill was known for his historical and political novels. He lived in South Nyack, New York.
Daughter of James Fenimore Cooper. Wrote “Rural Hours,” “Country Rambles,” “Country Life,” “Mount Vernon” and “The Children of America” among others.
(1938-1988) Fiction writer, poet. Raymond Carver was a Guggenheim fellow in 1979, twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983, Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in … Continued
(1847-1902) Novelist.
(1820-1915) Poet, hymn writer. Blinded at six weeks of age, Fanny Crosby entered New York Institute for the Blind at age 15, and afterward taught English and history. During the course of her life she would write at least 9,000 hymns. She also wrote A Wreath of Colombia’s Flowers (1858), a collection of secular stories … Continued
(1878-1942) Playwright, composer, actor, lyricist, librettist. George M. Cohan wrote numerous Broadway musicals and straight plays. He had his first big Broadway hit in 1904 with the show “Little Johnny Jones,” which introduced his tunes “Give My Regards to Broadway” and “The Yankee Doodle Boy”. His shows “Forty-five Minutes from Broadway” (1905), “George Washington, Jr.” … Continued
(1909-1971) Poet, writer. Clark moved to Cazenovia, New York in 1933 and farmed and taught school there.
(1865-1933) Novelist, short story writer. Robert W. Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York and worked on his books in Broadalbin, New York as well as in New York City. He moved his family into the family estate there after his novel “In The Quarter” (1894) was published. He lived in Broadalbin for much of … Continued
(1878-1914) Poet. Adelaide Crapsey was born in Brooklyn, New York; raised in Rochester, New York; graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1901; was treated for tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, New York, and died in Rochester, New York.