(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.
(1869-1926) Poet. George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, New York.
(1893-1951) Librettist. “No, No, Nanette” (1925), lived and died in Southhampton, New York.
(1806-1893) Poet. Elizabeth Smith is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue, New York.
Librettist. Mozart’s The Magic Flute, lived in the Bronx.
(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.
(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).