(1890-1970) Novelist. Cid Ricketts Sumner received an M.A. from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York in 1910 and continued her postgraduate work there until 1914. She attended a year of medical school at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York beginning in 1914.
(c.1920-1974) Novelist. Jacqueline Susann moved to New York City following her high school graduation and worked there as an actress before becoming a writer.
(1907-1991) Novelist. Jack Schaefer attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.
(1906-1968) Novelist. Allan Seager contracted tuberculosis and was sent to Trudeau Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York to recover.
(1904-1990) Novelist. Anya Seton was born in New York City.
(1918-2005) Novelist. Mary Lee Settle worked as a model and journalist in New York City and taught at Bard College in Annadale-On-Hudson, New York.
(1933-1994) Novelist. Robert Shea attended Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York.
(1879 – 1958) Novelist. Elsie Singmaster lived in Brooklyn, New York from 1887 to 1890.
(1907-1976) Novelist. H. Allen Smith lived in Mount Kisco, New York, for 23 years.
(1891-1934) Novelist. Thorne Smith lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.