(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
Writer, lyricist, social activist. “Bound For Glory,” lived in Coney Island. “Songs to Grow On,” died at Creedmoor Hospital
(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.
(1896-1983) Lyricist. Ira Gershwin was born in Manhattan, New York in 1896.
(1941-2004) Writer. Spalding Gray was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Lyricist, librettist, playwright. “On The Town,” “Singin’ In The Rain,” was born in the Bronx, attended New York University and lived in Manhattan.
Poet. Leader of the Introspectivists, a Yiddish poetry movement of the 1920s, lived in the Bronx.
Writer. “History of Women”
(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
(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.