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(1805-1852) Attorney. “Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan” (1843), born in New Jersey, grew up and died in New York City. He published travelogues.

(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

(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

(1875-1951) Lyricist, librettist. “Sweethearts” (1913), lived and died in Manhattan.

(1912-1995) Writer. May Sarton lived and worked in Manhattan, New York in the 1940s.

(1874-1938) Writer, journalist, collector. Born in Puerto Rico, he came to New York City in 1891. An essayist, he is responsible for collecting thousands of books, manuscripts, etchings and drawings, which in 1926 was purchased by the New York Public Library for $10,000. He was later appointed curator of his own collection at the 135th … Continued