Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822-1903) Landscape architect, writer of documentary works. Bought, in 1848, a Staten Island farm named The Woods, where he lived and promoted agricultural reform. “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom” (1861).
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Fitz-James O’Brien
(1828-1862) Writer. “The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales,” lived at 1 Great Jones St.
Samson Occom
(1723-1792) Writer. Occom was born in Connecticut and spent most of his life on Long Island with the Montauk tribe. He became a Christian convert. He spent a great deal of time envisioning and raising money for a Native American College. Despite these efforts, his story tells of how those funds went on to fund … Continued
Frank O’Hara
(1926-1966) Poet. Frank O’Hara was born in Baltimore, Maryland; he lived at 441 East 9th Street, near Tompkins Square Park, the Lower East Side, New York, New York. His collection of poems, “A Byzantine Place,” and “Try! Try!,” a verse play, won O’Hara the Avery Hopwood Major Award in poetry. O’Hara then moved to New … Continued
Eugene O’Neill
(1888-1953) Dramatist, playwright, widely acknowledged as America’s greatest. Eugene O’Neill was born in Barrett House (no longer there), Broadway and 43rd Street; he came to Greenwich Village in 1915, and lived at 38 Washington Square; and also lived at 59 West 46th Street. One of Eugene O’Neill’s hangouts was the Golden Swan at 6th Avenue … Continued
Clifford Odets
(1906-1963) Playwright. Clifford Odets grew up on Longwood Avenue and Beck Street in the Bronx, New York.
John O’Hara
(1905-1970) Writer, novelist. John O’Hara lived at 470 West 24th Street, Manhattan, New York. He also lived on Dune Road in Quoque, New York, in the summer of 1931.
Helen Fuller Orton
(1872-1955) Writer. Helen Fuller Orton was born in and lived in Niagara County, New York. She authored several children’s books of American colonial history and mysteries.
John Cornplanter O’Bail
(1736-1836) Seneca chief, orator, treaty-composer. Was born along the Genesee River. Born along the Genesee River to a Seneca Mother and a white father (O’Bail or Abeel). A Chief who initially fought against the British, he fought alongside the British during the American Revolution. After the war he composed many treaties and was a powerful … Continued
Charles Olson
(1910-1970) Poet. Charles Olson taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, from 1963 to 1965.