Margaret Sanger
(1879-1966) Activist, author. Margaret Higgens Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was publisher of “The Birth Control Review.”
(1879-1966) Activist, author. Margaret Higgens Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was publisher of “The Birth Control Review.”
Sherwood wrote “The Coming of the Tide,” “The Princess Pourquoi,” and many articles/poems for Scribners and Atlantic Monthly.
(c.1886-1975) Writer. Caroline Slade studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Besides her books, Slade had stories published in the New Yorker. She was the first president of the foundation that built the Yaddo writers’ colony.
(1892-1976) Short story writer. He had stories published in New Yorker, Good Housekeeping (the lesson is live in Saratoga and get published in the New Yorker).
(1825-1894) Poet, historian. Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester was born in Denmark, New York.
Writer, lawyer, abolitionist. Practiced law in Cherry Valley. In 1832 he moved to Utica and continued his practice, but gave a lot of his attention to the temperance and anti-slavery causes. In 1835 he organized an anti-slavery convention in Utica which formed the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. He delivered many speeches on the topic … Continued
(1886-1975) Novelist. Rex Stout lived at High Meadows Estate, Brewster, New York. He was the creator of the detective Nero Wolfe.
(1902-1968) Novelist, playwright. John Steinbeck lived at Sneden’s Landing near Palisades, New York, in 1942, and in Sag Harbor, New York, during the summers of the 1950s until his death in 1968; Southampton College has set up a place for writers in his memory. He also lived at 175 East 78th Street in Manhattan, New … Continued
Writer and poet. “Khamsin,” highly prolific novelist and poet who wrote over 34 titles.
(1908-1981) Novelist, playwright. William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California. He lived in Mill Neck, New York for six months, and stayed at the McBurney YMCA, 215 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York when he first moved to New York in the 1920s. In 1991 the United States Postal Service issued its nineth stamp … Continued