Akilah Oliver
(1961-2011) Poet. Akilah Oliver was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and died in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York.
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Brian O’Connell
(1930-2011) Writer. Brian O’Connell was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in Chatham, Massachusetts.
Peter Orlovsky
(1933-2010) Poet. Peter Orlovsky was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Williston, Vermont.
James Oppenheim
(1882-1932) Poet, novelist, editor. James Oppenheim was a resident of New York City most of his life. He studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.
Joel Oppenheimer
(1930-1988) Poet. Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York. He was a columnist for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1984 and lived for many years in the Westbeth artists’s community in Manhattan, New York.
Blanche Oelrichs
(1890-1950) Poet, playwright. Blanche Oelrichs lived in New York and was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York. She was known by the pseudonym Michael Strange.
George Oppen
(1908-1984) Poet. George Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, and lived in New York at different times during his life. H received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for excellence in literature in 1980.
Mary Oppen
(1908-1990) Poet. Mary Oppen lived with her husband, George Oppen, in Brooklyn, New York.
Fulton Oursler
(1893-1952) Writer. Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in New York City. His books were mainly on Christian themes.
Flannery O’Connor
(1925-1964) Novelist. Flannery O’Connor lived for seven months at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2015 the United States Postal Service issued its 30th stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Flannery O’Connor.