Howard Moss
(1922-1987) Poet, critic, playwright, editor. Howard Moss was born in New York City. He was poetry editor at the “New Yorker” for three decades.
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Jackson Mac Low
(1922-2004) Poet, composer. Jackson Mac Low taught at New York University from 1966-1973 and at SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, New York.
Frank Mandel
(1884-1958) Librettist. “Tickle Me” (1920), worked in Manhattan.
Phyllis McGinley
Writer, poet. “On the Contrary,” lived in Larchmont.
John P Marquand
(1893-1960) Writer, novelist. John Phillips Marquand spent part of his childhood in Rye, New York.
Bernard Malamud
(1914-1986) Novelist, writer. “The Fixer” (1966; Pulitzer Prize), “The Tenants” (1971), “The Assistant” (1957). Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York, received his BA from the College of the City of New York in 1936 and his MA from Columbia University in 1942.
Arthur Miller
(1915-2005) Playwright, writer. Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, New York, and lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, as a child.
Henry Miller
(1891-1980) Novelist, writer. Henry Miller was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York. He graduated second in his class from Eastern District High School in Brooklyn, New York. He dropped out of City College after two months.
Carlton Mabee
Historian, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner. “The American Leonardo: A Life Of Samuel FB Morse,” “Black Freedom,” and more.
William Matthews
(1942-1997) Poet. William Matthews was director of the creative writing program at New York’s City College and taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.