(1934-1992) Poet, writer, essayist, novelist, and teacher. Audre Lorde was born in New York City, and grew up in Manhattan, New York, where she attended Catholic school. She was a Hunter graduate in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree. In 1961 she received a Masters in library science from Columbia University and worked as a librarian … Continued
(1874-1925) Poet. Amy Lowell lived at 61 Washington Square, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.
(1917-1977)(Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV) Poet. Robert Lowell lived in Manhattan, New York, and served a jail sentence as a conscientious objector in the 1940s in a New York City jail; he died in a taxicab coming to Manhattan, New York, to see his former wife Eliazbeth Hardwick. He was also married to Jean Stafford. … Continued
(c.1834-c.1914) Writer, tutor of the 67 children of the King of Siam. “The Romance of the Harem” (1873), moved to Staten Island and ran a school on Richmond Terrace in West New Brighton.
(1851-1926) Writer, editor. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop lived in Manhattan, New York, and died in Hawthorne, New York. She was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter and was married to George Parsons Lathrop. Following her husband’s death, she became a nun and was known as Mother Mary Alphonsa.
(1905-1971) Novelist. Manfred Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote under the pseudonym, Ellery Queen, with his cousin Frederic Dannay. Mr. Lee lived in Mount Vernon, New York.
(1902-1992) Writer, journalist. Max Lerner died in Manhattan, New York.
(1862-1924) Novelist, writer. Laura Jean Libbey was born in and lived most of her life in Brooklyn, New York.
(1866-1947) Writer, poet. “Volumes in Folio” (1889), lived in Woodstock.
(1918-1990) Journalist. “The New York World-Telegram”