Maxwell Geismar
(1909-1979) Literary critic, biographer. Maxwell Geismar taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years.
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Harry Golden
(1902-1981) Writer, humorist. “Only in America” (1958), grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Horace Gregory
(1898-1982) Poet. Horace Gregory was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and lived in Palisades, New York.
Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Writer, lyricist, social activist. “Bound For Glory,” lived in Coney Island. “Songs to Grow On,” died at Creedmoor Hospital
Horace Greeley
(1811-1872) Editor, publisher. Founder of the New York Tribune in 1841, a large paper with a circulation of 250,000. The Tribune printed the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, etc. There is a statue of Greeley in City Hall park. He was the first newspaper editor to allow by-lines. On August 19, … Continued
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.
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.