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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.

Sarah Delany

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(1889-1999) Author. Sarah Delany was born in Lynch’s Station, Virginia, and died in Mount Vernon, New York. After her sister’s death in 1995, Sarah, at 107 years old, wrote “On My Own.”

Joseph Rodman Drake

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(1795-1820) Poet, satirist. Joseph Rodman Drake was born in New York City, and buried in Drake Park at Hunts Point and Oak Point Avenues in the Bronx, New York. Under the name “The Croakers,” he and his friend Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote a series of light satirical verses for the New York Evening Post (1819, first … Continued

Frederic Dannay

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(1905-1982) Writer, novelist. Frederic Dannay wrote under the pseudonym, Ellery Queen, with his cousin Manfred Lee. He lived in Nassau County, New York.

Ariel Durant

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(1898-1981) Writer, historian. Ms. Durant wrote “The Story of Civilization” (with Will Durant). She lived in Nassau County and on Staten Island and spent her summers from 1919 to 1928 in Woodstock, New York.

Will Durant

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(1885-1981) Writer, historian. Will Durant co-wrote, “The Story of Civilization,” with Ariel Durant. In 1917 he was an instructor at Columbia University. He lived in Nassau County and in Staten Island and spent his summers from 1919 to 1928 in Woodstock, New York.

Rev. William Dean

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Writer, missionary, translator. Lived during the 1800s. Translated the “Bible” to Chinese. Was born in Eaton, New York.

Theodore Dreiser

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(1871-1945) Novelist, writer. “An American Tragedy” (1925). Dreiser came to New York City in 1895. Dreiser lived at 160 Bleecker Street, 165 W. 10th Street, 16 St. Luke’s Place, 118 W. 11th Street, 116 W. 11th Street, and at Patchin Place, all in Greenwich Village, New York, New York; he also lived on W. 15th … Continued

Frederick Douglass

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(1818-1895) Abolitionist, orator, writer. Frederick Douglass founded his newspaper, the “North Star,” in Rochester, New York, after moving there in 1847. The newspaper ran for seventeen years. One of the Douglass homes was at 247 Alexander Street. It was burned down in 1872, after which he moved to Washington, DC. Douglass died in 1895 and … Continued