James Robert Gilmore
(1822-1903)(EDMUND KIRKE) – Novelist. He wrote novels about the Civil War under the pen name Edmund Kirke. He died in Glens Falls, NY in 1903.
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Ira Gershwin
(1896-1983) Lyricist. Ira Gershwin was born in Manhattan, New York in 1896.
Spalding Gray
(1941-2004) Writer. Spalding Gray was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Aaron Glanz-Leyeles
Poet. Leader of the Introspectivists, a Yiddish poetry movement of the 1920s, lived in the Bronx.
Adolph Green
Lyricist, librettist, playwright. “On The Town,” “Singin’ In The Rain,” was born in the Bronx, attended New York University and lived in Manhattan.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Writer. “History of Women”
Zane Grey
(1872-1939) Writer of Westerns. During his lifetime, over 13 million copies of his books were sold. He is said to have opened up the west to millions of readers in the early 1900s. Works: “Heritage of The Desert,” “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1912), “The Day of the Beast” (1922), etc. He spent winters in … Continued
William Gaddis
(1922-1998) Writer, novelist. William Gaddis was born in Manhattan, New York, and raised in Massapequa, New York. He returned to New York, worked as a fact checker for The New Yorker, and as a speech writer for the Pfizer Corporation.
Parke Godwin
(1816-1904) Writer, editor, publisher. Parke Godwin was the son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant and lived in Nassau County, New York.
Hamlin Garland
(1860-1940) Writer, poet. Hamlin Garland spent his summers in Onteora Park from 1917 to the 1930s. He was born near West Salem, Wisconsin; lived in Manhattan. He grew up in the middle western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography. His tales, collected as “Main-travelled Roads” (1891), “Prairie Folks” (1893), … Continued