E. D. E. N. Southworth
(1819-1899) Writer, Novelist. E. D. E. N. Southworth visited her son at 103 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York. She wrote over sixty novels.
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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Poet, author, editor, writer of juvenile stories. She was born and raised in New Rochelle. She contributed pieces to such magazines as “Hearth and Home,” “Christian Intelligencer,” and “Harpers Bazaar,” as well as editing them.
Alan Seeger
(1888-1916) Poet. Alan Seeger graduated from the Hackley School, 293 Benedict Avenue, Tarrytown, New York, in 1906. He lived at 61 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.
Vincent Sheean
(1899-1975) Writer, journalist. “An American Among the Riffi,” worked for “The Daily News” in Manhattan.
Robert Charles Sands
(1799-1832) Poet, writer. Robert Charles Sands was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. He lived at 8 Hester Street, Manhattan, New York.
Margaret Higgins Sanger
Activist, author. “What Every Mother Should Know,” established the US’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1921
Delmore Schwartz
(1913-1966) Poet, writer. Delmore Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University in 1935 and lived at 775 Greenwich Street. His last address was 70 West 46th Street. He was an editor of the Partisan Review (1943-55).
Hubert Selby Jr
(1928-2004) Writer, novelist. Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Betty Smith
(1896-1972) Writer novelist. Betty Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Edgar Smith
(1857-1938) Lyricist, librettist. “Hurly Burly” (1898), “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.” (1916), was born in Brooklyn and died in Bayside.