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Matteo Vittucci

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(1919-2011) Author. Matteo was born in Utica, New York, and died in Englewood, New Jersey. He was a master of Spanish dance and the author of books on that subject.

Janine Pommy Vega

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(1942-2010) Poet. Janine Pommy Vega was a poet associated with the Beats. She lived in Willow, New York. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Willow, New York.

Gloria Vando

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Gloria Vando’s most recent collection, Woven Voices: Three Generations of Puertorriqueña Poets Look at Their American Lives with Anita Velez-Mitchell and Anika Paris (2012, Scapegoat Press). Shadows & Supposes (Arte Público Press), won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Latino Literary Hall of Fame’s Poetry Book Award. She is … Continued

George Sylvester Viereck

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(1884-1962) Poet, writer. George Sylvester Viereck was born in Germany, and died in 1962. He was a 1906 graduate of the College of the City of New York.

Edgardo Alberto Vega Yunque

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(1936-2008) Novelist. Edgardo Vega Yunque was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1936 and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 2008. He wrote stories and novels about life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York.

Arturo Vivante

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(1923-2008) Short story writer. Arturo Vivante was born in Rome, Italy and died in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He moved to New York in 1958. His work appeared in many periodicals including: Vogue, The New York Times, London Magazine, The Guardian, The Southern Review, and in the New Yorker where he published over 70 short stories.

Louis Joseph Vance

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(1879-1933) Novelist. Louis Joseph Vance attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He died in 1933 in his New York apartment.