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
(1927-1999) Poet, translator. Armand Schwerner taught at College of Staten Island in Staten Island, New York.
(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.
(1879-1955) Poet, writer. Wallace Stevens lived at 441 West 21st Street in Manhattan, New York.
(1923-1981) Poet. “Covenants and Selected Poems,” lived in New York City.
(1825-1903) Poet, literary critic. After an impoverished childhood and a variety of menial jobs worked as a young man, including a ten year stint in an iron foundry, Richard Stoddard (with the help of Nathaniel Hawthorne) obtained an appointment as inspector of customs in New York City. This new job gave Mr. Stoddard more time … Continued
(1823-1902) Writer. “Le Mourne Versus Huell,” lived at 4th Avenue and 10th Street.
(1913 or 1919-1989) Poet, critic, scholar, editor, lecturer, playwright. May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah. She got her bachelor of science degree from Utah State University and then moved to New York City. Swenson won the William Rose Benet Prize of the Poetry Society of America in 1959, Longview Foundation Award in 1959, National … Continued