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Gonzalo De Quesada

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(1868-1915) Cuban diplomat. Born in Havana. After graduating at the College of the City of New York in 1888, he studied at Columbia. He was associated with JOSÉ JULIAN MARTI in the endeavor to effect Cuban independence, and in 1900 became special commissioner of Cuba to the United States; during 1901 he was a member … Continued

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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(1875-1935) Poet, short story writer, journalist. Born and educated in New Orleans. She married PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR secretly in New York City in 1898. She wrote a thesis on Milton and Wordsworth at Cornell University. She moved to Delaware and taught at Howard University. In 1920, Dunbar-Nelson edited and published “The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer,” … Continued

Floyd Dell

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Novelist, book reviewer, editor, poet, editor of the Masses. Dell worked in Chicago in the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post. In 1913, Dell left Chicago for New York and joined MAX EASTMAN at his paper the Masses. He settled in Greenwich Village. He and the Masses staff in 1917 were indicted for … Continued

Enid Dame

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(1943-2003) Poet, editor. Enid Dame lived in High Falls, New York and in Brooklyn, New York.

Paula Danziger

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(1944-2004) Writer. Paula Danziger was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Manhattan, New York. She lived in Manhattan, New York, and had a home near Woodstock, New York.

Finley Peter Dunne

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(1867-1936) Writer, journalist. “Mr. Dooley In Peace And War” (1898). Dunne lived in Southampton, New York, during the summers in the 1920s and 1930s.