(1893-1961) Writer, journalist. Dorothy Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York. She was a journalist for the “New York Herald Tribune,” graduated from Syracuse University in 1914, and returned for study in 1937. The University has a collection of her papers. She lived on East 48th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in Manhattan, New … Continued
Writer, journalist. “With Lawrence of Arabia,” lived on his Quaker Hill estate in Pawling and died there. He is buried in the cemetery of Christ Church.
(1899-1979) Poet, novelist, critic. Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Kentucky; lived with his wife, writer Caroline Gordon, near Pawling, New York, from 1925 to 1926. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
(c.1916-2006) Writer, poet. Ellen S. Tifft was born, lived, and died in Elmira, New York.
(1864-1938) Writer. Mrs. George Fuller Tuttle lived in Plattsburgh, New York.
(c.1821-1913) Writer, abolitionist. Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to the north in 1849. She then devoted herself to leading other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Quaker sympathizers helped her on her dangerous journeys to the South to collect new groups of fugitives. In 1857 she rescued her own parents, and … Continued