William H H Murray
(1840-1904) Writer. William H. H. Murray wrote a series of articles and books which popularized the Adirondack Mountains. He was from Schuyler County in New York State.
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Guy Humphrey McMaster
(1829-1887) Writer, jurist. McMaster edited the Steuben Courier.
J. J. Meehan
Poet. J. J. Meehan set his 1923 poem “The Song Of Mosholu” in Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx, New York.
Jack Micheline
(1929-1998) Poet. Jack Micheline was born in the East Bronx, New York, and was one of the Beat poets; he lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York in the late 1950s. He died in San Francisco, California.
Anna Margolin
(1887-1952) Poet.
William Starbuck Mayo
(1811-1895) Writer, novelist. “Kaloolah.”
Charles MacArthur
Writer. “The Front Page” (with BEN HECHT), lived in Nyack.
Carson McCullers
(1917-1967) Writer, playwright, novelist. Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, and lived and died in Nyack, New York.
John D MacDonald
(1916-1986) Novelist. Writer of numerous mystery novels, most notably the Travis McGee series which began in 1964 with “The Deep Blue Good-Bye” and ended in 1985 with “The Lonely Silver Rain.”
Harold MacGrath
(1871-1932) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist. “A Splendid Hazard”