Sherry Fairchok is the author of a full-length poetry collection, “The Palace of Ashes” (CavanKerry Press, 2002), which was a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a chapbook, “A Stone That Burns” (The Ledge Press, 2000), which won The Ledge 1999 Chapbook Prize. She won the 2002 Pablo Neruda Prize in the Nimrod/Hardiman … Continued
Alice B. Fogel’s most recent book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008. Other poetry collections include Elemental and I Love This Dark World. Her manuscript of poems, Interval, based on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, has been a finalist at numerous competitions, including the National Poetry Society, Tupelo, and Copper Canyon. Her poems … Continued
(1905-1974) Lyricist, librettist. “Annie Get Your Gun,” lived and died in Manhattan.
(1879-1958) Novelist and juvenile writer. Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated from Ohio State in 1899, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1904. Her novels include “The Bent Twig” (1915), “The Deepening Stream” (1930), “Seasoned Timber” (1939), and “Four-Square” (1949). She also wrote short stories; “Vermont Tradition” (1953), personal views … Continued
(1897-1934) Writer. Rudolph Fisher was an African American doctor who wrote “The City of Refuge,” a short story; “The Caucasian Storms Harlem,” an essay; and two novels, “The Walls of Jericho” and “The Conjure Man Dies,” which is said to be the first mystery written by an African American. Fisher was born in Washington, District … Continued
(1873-1939) Writer. Ford Madox Ford lived at 10 5th Avenue, New York, New York.
(1894-1973) Lyricist. “The Broadway Melody,” lived in Manhattan.
(1752-1832) Poet, journalist, editor. Philip Freneau was born in New York City. He was the first professional American journalist, a powerful propagandist and satirist for the American Revolution and Jeffersonian democracy.
(1909-1996) Writer, journalist, editor. “Broadside,” lived with his wife, writer (AGNES) SIS CUNNINGHAM, in Manhattan’s Frederick Douglass housing project and at 215 W. 98th St.
(1897-1962) Writer. William Faulkner wrote novels, short stories and plays. He stayed at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. In 1987 the United States Postal Service issued its sixth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of William Faulkner.