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.
(1861-1909) Artist, illustrator, sculptor, writer. “Pony Tracks.” Remington was born in Canton, NY. He spent his adolescence drawing sketches of horses, soldiers, cowboys, Indians and other boyhood fantasies. After a failed courtship with Eva Caten, a young woman he was too impoverished to marry, Remington went West to seek his fortune. He found employment as … Continued
(1838-1888) Fiction writer. Edward Payson Roe was born in Moodna, New York and died in Cornwall. He was also a pastor in Highland Falls, New York, approximately a mile from West Point. There his addresses on topics of the Civil War gained for him some notice as a speaker. In 1874 he removed to Cornwall-on-Hudson, … Continued
(1861-1915) Short story writer, novelist. He wrote and published over 200 stories. He wrote “The Wreck of the Titan” in 1898, which had details so identical to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, that it was seen as prophecy. He is one of America’s most known and accomplished authors on the subject of the … Continued
(c.1838-1886) Poet. Father Abram Joseph Ryan was a Southerner to the core in spite of his Irish heritage and Northern upbringing, Father Ryan enlisted in the Confederate Army on September 1, 1862, and served as a chaplain , carrying the wounded to safety and performing last rites on the battlefield. His first piece of poetry … Continued
(1896-1953) Writer, novelist. Marjorie Rawlings was born in Washington, District of Columbia. She worked for the Rochester Journal in the 1930s. She lived part of each year in Van Hornesville, New York, beginning in 1947. In 2008 the United States Postal Service issued its twenty-fourth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Marjorie … Continued
Poet, editor, critic. Born in Mount Morris, NY. She wrote “The Door of Dreams” (1918) and “The Lifted Cup” (1921). She also was a founder of the Poetry Society of America.
(1884-1962) Writer. Eleanor Roosevelt was born and died in Manhattan, New York, and lived much of her life there. She is buried in Hyde Park, New York.
(1882-1945) Writer. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945). He was born in Hyde Park, New York. Aside from his four volumes of letters (1947-1950), and the thirteen volumes of his public papers and addresses (1938-50), he also wrote “Whither Bound?,” “The Happy Warrior,” “Looking Forward,” and “On Our Way.”