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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

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.

Enid Dame

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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(1900-1944) Writer. Antoine De Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, France, and died in a plane crash off the coast of France. He lived at 240 Central Park South at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York. He also lived on Bevin Road in Asharoken, New York, from 1942 to 1943.

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.