(1762-1824) Writer. A New Englander, Susanna Rowson lived in Manhattan, New York, and wrote “Charlotte Temple” (1791), which could be the first novel based in New York City. It went through 150 editions and was a best seller for 50 years until Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
(1913-1980) Very political poet, journalist. Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York City. She attended the Fieldston schools and matriculated at Vassar. From 1930-1932, she attended Columbia University. She traveled to Alabama to cover the Scottsboro case. She was also involved with the International Labor Defense, worked for the “Daily Worker,” went to Spain to … Continued
(1887-1920) Journalist and radical leader. After graduating from Harvard in 1910, he wrote articles in the United States for various publications and from 1913 was attached to the radical magazine The Masses. His coverage of the Paterson, N.J., silk workers strike of 1913 profoundly affected him, and thereafter he became a proponent of revolutionary politics. … Continued
(1837-1912) Journalist, editor. Whitelaw Reid was born in Cedarville, Ohio, and died in London, England. He was editor of the New York Tribune, and lived at Ophir Hall, Purchase Street, Purchase, New York, from 1866 to 1912.
(1913-1995) Playwright, poet. “Come Slowly, Eden,” was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first Poet Laureate of Brooklyn.
(1893-1974) Historian of Long Island, writer. Author of “East Hampton History” (1953). “Fifty Years of the Maidstone Club,” and “Trapeze Song.”
(1901-1991) Writer, poet, critic. Laura Riding (Alternative name: Laura Riding Jackson) was born in Manhattan, New York, and attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
(1880-1936) Writer. Arthur B. Reeve attended New York Law School. He wrote the Professor Craig Kennedy series of mystery/detective novels.
W. R. Rodriguez grew up in the Bronx where he worked as a bootblack in the family shoe shine parlor. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he earned an M. A. in English and taught high school for over thirty years. The urban environment has been a major source of his writing: “Although I left … Continued
(1880-1946) Short story writer. Damon Runyon moved to Manhattan, New York, in 1910; he lived at the Hotel Buckingham, 101 West 57th Street and has a memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.