(1894-1967) Poet, novelist. “descended from a mixture…Scotch, Welsh, German,…and some dark blood” Jean Toomer wrote “Cane” (1923) a three part novel seen as ground-breaking and the start-off point for the Harlem Renaissance. He lived in New Rochelle and Harlem, New York City at different times in his life.
(1874/75-1950) Poet, editor. “The New Republic” (1920-1924) lived in Greenwich Village.
(1876-1944) Poet, editor. Luis Llorens Torres was born in Puerto Rico. He founded “Antilles Journal” in Puerto Rico. He was an acclaimed poet, and he died in New York City.
(1857-1944) Writer. “History of the Standard Oil Company” (1904), lived at 38-44 9th Street, Greenwich Village.
(1884-1933) Poet. Sara Teasdale lived at 1 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York.
(1811-1863) Writer. “Vanity Fair” (1848), stayed at 604 Houston Street in the mid-1850s.
(1914-1953) Poet. Dylan Thomas stayed at the Hotel Chelsea, in 1953, and when taken ill with alcohol poisoning, was taken from his room there, to nearby Saint Vincent’s Hospital, where he died.
(c.1909-1998) Writer. “Eloise” (1956), lived at the Plaza Hotel.
(1894-1961) Novelist. James Thurber lived on Horatio Street near 9th Avenue and 13th Street. He frequented the Algonquin Hotel. In 1994 the United States Postal Service issued its eleventh stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of James Thurber.
(1902-1934) African American fiction writer/editor. Wallace Thurman was born in Salt Lake City and lived in New York City.