(1902-1961) Poet, writer, novelist. In 1925 Kenneth Fearing moved to New York where he began a career as a poet. During the Twenties and Thirties his poetry was published in “New Masses”, “The New Yorker”, and “Poetry.” He published his first novel, “The Hospital”, in 1939. He also published pulp fiction, including soft-pornography, under the … Continued
(1894-1942) Writer, novelist, poet. Rachel Field was born on East 40th Street in Manhattan, New York.
(1813-1890) Explorer, surveyor, writer. “The Life Of Col. John Charles Fremont And His Narrative Of Explorations And Adventures In Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, and California,” died on Staten Island.
(1880-1946)(William Claude Dukenfield) Screenwriter. “The Bank Dick” (1940), lived near Little Neck Bay, Queens, New York.
(1914-2003) Writer. Howard Fast was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He lived, in the early 1940s, in Tarrytown, New York. He also lived in Manhattan, New York.
(1889-1967) Writer, editor, novelist. Waldo Frank died in White Plains, New York.
(1903-1999) Poet, playwright, critic. “Introduction To Spanish Poetry,” born in Spain. Moved to Cuba in 1918. Moved to NYC in 1940 as a representative of the Cuban State Department and lived in Brooklyn. Taught at Barnard College until 1969. Wrote in Spanish.
(1882-1961) Writer, novelist. Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most prolific female writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
(1810-1850) Writer, social reformer, literary critic. “Women in the Nineteenth Century” (1845), drowned near Point O’Woods, Fire Island, New York.
(1922-2005) Illustrator. Frank Kelly Freas was born in Hornell, New York in 1922 and died in West Hills, California in 2005. Freas was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists.”