Author of five books of poetry, two critical works, one novel, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 50 published essays, and editor of three anthologies, D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Long Beach, California. Her Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987) was the first comprehensive … Continued
Douglas A. Martin’s first novel, Outline of My Lover, was nominated for the American Library Association’s GLBT Book Award, selected as one of the Top 10 of 2000 on Planet Out, a finalist for a Lambda literary award, and named an International book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement. It has been adapted … Continued
(1852-1940) Poet. Edwin Markham lived in Westerleigh, New York.
(1895-1990) Philosopher, writer, architectural critic. Born in Flushing, Long Island, New York, Lewis Mumford attended Stuyvesant High School, the New School, and City College of New York, and lived in Manhattan, New York. He was published in “Forum” magazine at 18. By 1919 he was reviewing for “The Dial,” and he later became Associate Editor.
(1908-1965) Broadcast journalist. CBS News, moved to New York City in 1929.
(1878-1967) Poet. “Salt-Water Poems and Ballads” (1926), lived at Patchin Place, in Greenwich Village, in 1896.
(1868-1950) Poet, author. In 1880 his family settled at Lewiston, Illinois, near the Spoon River. Masters attended school here, and studied at Knox College, but was mainly self-educated through wide reading, acquiring a lifelong love of poetry. He was admitted to the bar in 1891, and the next year moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he … Continued
(1885-1943) Lyricist. “Irene,” lived and died in Manhattan.
(1885-1940) Librettist, playwright, screenwriter. William Anthony McGuire was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Beverly Hills, California. He worked in Manhatten, New York, writing and producing plays.
(1890-1948) Poet, novelist. Claude McKay is seen as the most important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, in that he received great national and international praise and recognition. Born in Jamaica, he lived off and on in Harlem for many years. He wrote the first best seller by an African-American. McKay was also on the editorial … Continued