H Allen Smith
(1907-1976) Novelist. H. Allen Smith lived in Mount Kisco, New York, for 23 years.
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Thorne Smith
(1891-1934) Novelist. Thorne Smith lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.
Peggy Samuels
(1922-2007) Biographer, historian. Peggy Samuels and her husband, Howard, wrote or edited books on art and United States history.
Nina Schneider
(1913-2007) Author. Nina Zimet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1913 and died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2007. She was, with her husband, Herman Schneider, the author of numerous children’s science books. She also wrote poetry which appeared in The New American Review and The Nation.
David Shaw
(1916-2007)Stage and Screen Writer. David Shaw, the brother of Irwin Shaw (writer)was a Tony-Award-winning writer and also wrote scripts for many highly regared shows of television’s golden age (for example “Playhouse 90” and “Studio One”). For the cinema, Shaw worte the screenplay for “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.” Shaw served with the Army … Continued
Madeleine B Stern
(1912-2007) Writer. Madeleine Bettina Stern was born in Manhattan, New York in 1912 and died in Manhattan, New York in 2007. Ms. Stern was a rare-book dealer and a founder of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.
John Szarkowski
(1925-2007) Curator, writer. John Szarkowski was a photography curator and the writer of books on that subject.
Sekou Sundiata
(1948-2007) Performance poet. Sekou Sundiata was born in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, and died in Valhalla, New York.
Christina Starobin
Christina Starobin is an international award winning poet, writer and lecturer living in upstate New York. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard (cum laude), an MA from Columbia and a PhD from NYU. In 1982 her poem “All over the world” won a Duncan Lawrie award from Sotheby’s International Poetry competition (35 … Continued
Marshall Darrow Shulman
(1916-2007) Writer. Marshall Shulman was an expert on the Soviet Union.