(1933-2006) Schoenstein was born in Manhattan, New York in 1933. He lived his childhood in New York and graduated from Columbia University. His works include: “The Block” (1960) and “Yes, My Darling Daughters: Adventures in Fathering” (1976). He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006.
(1922-2006) Screenwriter. Joseph Stefano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922 and moved in the 1940s to New York where he was an entertainer and later was the screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960). His other works include “Eye of the Cat” (1969). Stefano died in Thousand Oaks, California in 2006.
Poet, novelist and essayist, Terese Svoboda’s most recent book is Trailer Girl (Counterpoint Press, 2001), a novel and a collection of short stories. “A full world, fierce, devastate and ultimately exhilerating,” wrote Robert Polito, author of Savage Art. She has also published three books of poetry, one book of translation from the African language, Nuer, … Continued
(1918-2006)(Frank Morrison Spillane) Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He attended schools in Brooklyn and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1935. He purchased land, built a home, and wrote many of his books near Newburgh, New York. His … Continued
Matthew Sharpe is the author of Stories from the Tube, a book of short stories (Villard Books, 1998). His fiction has been anthologized in The KGB Bar Reader (Morrow, 1998) and Best Texas Writing 2 (Firewheel Editions, 1999). He has published short stories in Harper’s, Zoetrope, BOMB, Southwest Review, Fiction, Witness, American Letters & Commentary, … Continued
Boria Sax holds a doctorate in German and Intellectual History from SUNY Buffalo. His publications include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals and the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, … Continued
(1774-1821) The first American born Roman Catholic saint. “Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of Elizabeth Seton,” spent summers in Saint George; her grandfather was rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Richmondtown.
(1918-1985) Science fiction writer. Theodore Sturgeon was born in Staten Island, New York in 1918.
(1927-1999) Poet, translator. Armand Schwerner taught at College of Staten Island in Staten Island, New York.
(1904-1991) Novelist, short story writer. Born in a Jewish village in Poland, Mr. Singer moved to Manhattan, New York, in 1935 to flee from the rising anti-Semitism. He continued to live there for more than thirty years on the Upper West Side, at 86th and Broadway. His novels, which he wrote in Yiddish, are primarily … Continued