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Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

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(1838-1915) Author, professor. He was born in Ovid, NY. His name was associated with Yale University for many years. He wrote “A History of the English Language” (1879), “Life of James Fenimore Cooper” (1882), and edited a volume of writings by Charles Dudley Warner (1904).

Ringgold (Ring) Wilmer Lardner

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(1885-1933) Sportswriter, writer, journalist, columnist, short story writer, humorist. Born into affluence in Niles, Michigan, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner went on to take a position as a society reporter and sportswriter at various newspapers. Mr. Lardner lived in Manhattan, New York.

Sinclair Lewis

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(1885-1951) Novelist, writer, playwright, satirist. Sinclair Lewis wrote the novels “Main Street” (1920), “Babbitt” (1922), “Arrowsmith” (1925; Pulitzer Prize, refused), and “Elmer Gantry” (1927), which satirized middle-class life in the 1920s. Lewis was first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. He and his wife Dorothy Thompson lived at 17 Wood Lane … Continued

Handsome Lake

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(1735?-1815) Seneca chief, prophet, leader, storyteller, orator. “The Code of Handsome Lake/ The Gaiwiio.” Handsome Lake was born near the Genesee river in Livingston county. He was an Iroquois chief, half-brother of Cornplanter, who fought in the Revolutionary War and who went on to express a religious and social vision known as “The Code of … Continued

Sim Logan

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Seneca, translator, tutor, guide. Lived during the 1800s and worked with Jeremiah Curtain, who went on to write “Seneca Indian Myths,” collected 1883 and published 1922.

Jack London

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(1876-1916) Writer, novelist. London wrote in “The Road” (1907) of his experiences as a drifter coming to Niagara Falls in 1894, being enthralled for hours by the falls, but then (having no money for a hotel room) being arrested for vagrancy and sentenced to a month in the Erie County Penitentiary. “The Call of the … Continued

Emmet Lavery

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(1902-1986) Playwright, screenwriter. Emmet Lavery was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was an award-winning screenwriter and playwright.