(1780-1851) Diarist. Philip Hone was born in New York City in 1780 and died in New York City in 1851. He was mayor of New York City from 1826-1827, and lived at 235 Broadway, New York, New York. He kept a famous diary of New York life in the 19th century.
(1922-2007) Novelist, biographer. Mark Harris was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Santa Barbara, California. He was known for his novels about a mythical baseball player.
(1934-2007) Journalist, author. David Halberstam was born in New York City in 1934. Halberstam worked for the “Daily Times Leader” in West Point, Mississippi, the “Nashville Tennessean,” the “New York Times,” and “Harper’s” magazine. Halberstam was a 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on the Viet Nam war. Mr. Halberstam died in a car … Continued
(1944-2006) Playwright. Peter Halasz was born in Hungary in 1944 and died in New York, New York in 2006. He was founder of New York’s Squat/Love Theater collective in 1977.
(1917-2006) Critic. Henry Hewes was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Columbia University graduate and had worked for the New York Times before joining the Saturday Review in 1951. He was a theater critic for the Saturday Review and founder of The American Theatre Critics Association. He died in 2007 in New … Continued
(1926-1992) Writer. Harold Humes was born in Douglas, Arizona in 1926 and died in New York City in 1992.
Gerard Houarner is a Breton-American who has translated the dark and stubborn sensibility of his heritage into a career as a rehabilitation counselor, most recently at a state psychiatric facility. He has worked in the mental health/substance abuse field for twenty years throughout New York City. He is also a science fiction/fantasy/horror writer, with 19 … Continued
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Rockland County, New York, John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Review, Barrow Street, Laurel Review, West Branch, the anthologies Blooming … Continued
Amy Holman is the author of the poetry collections, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window (Somondoco Press, 2010) and Wait For Me, I’m Gone (Dream Horse Press, 2005), which won the 2004 annual chapbook prize. Her guide to colonies, residencies, grants, fellowships and graduate writing programs, An Insider’s Guide to Creative Writing Programs was published … Continued
Mars Hill was born in Arkansas, and grew up in a church that his grandfather founded. At 16, he moved to Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.S. degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in African, and African-American Studies and a D.A. in Humanistic Studies from the State University of New … Continued