Margaret Higgins Sanger
Activist, author. “What Every Mother Should Know,” established the US’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1921
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Frank Samperi
(1933-1991) Poet. Frank Samperi was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Sun City, Arizona.
Carl Sagan
(1934-1996) Astronomer, writer. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Lawrence Schwab
(1893-1951) Librettist. “No, No, Nanette” (1925), lived and died in Southhampton, New York.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
(1806-1893) Poet. Elizabeth Smith is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue, New York.
Seba Smith
(1792-1868)(MAJOR JACK DOWNING) – Writer, editor. Born in Buckfield, Maine. “National Intelligencer.”
Jean Stafford
(1915-1979) Novelist. Stafford lived with A. J. Liebling, her husband, at 45 West 10th Street in Manhattan, New York. Stafford died at the Burke Rehabilitation Center, 785 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, New York. She had also been married to Robert Lowell.
George Sterling
(1869-1926) Poet. George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, New York.
Emanuel Schikaneder
Librettist. Mozart’s The Magic Flute, lived in the Bronx.
Irwin Shaw
(1913-1984) Playwright, novelist, short story writer. Irwin Shaw was born in the Bronx, New York, moved to Brooklyn, New York, and also lived in Manhattan, New York. He wrote “The Young Lions” (1948) and “Rich Man, Poor Man” (1970), which was the basis for a long-running, pioneering mini-series on television in 1975.