(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.
(1908-1990) Poet. Mary Oppen lived with her husband, George Oppen, in Brooklyn, New York.
(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.
(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.
(1893-1952) Writer. Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in New York City. His books were mainly on Christian themes.
(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.
(1910-2006) Mary Orr was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1910 and died in Manhattan, NY in 2006. She attended Syracuse University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
(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).
(1828-1862) Writer. “The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales,” lived at 1 Great Jones St.
(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