(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
(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
(1906-1963) Playwright. Clifford Odets grew up on Longwood Avenue and Beck Street in the Bronx, New York.
(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.
(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.
(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
(1918-1968) Novelist.
(1910-1970) Poet. Charles Olson taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, from 1963 to 1965.