(1967-2009) Poet. Rachel Wetzsteon was born and died in Manhattan, New York. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and taught at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and at Barnard College in Manhattan, New York.
(1900-1964) Poet. Oscar Williams was born in Letychiv, Ukraine. He immigrated to New York when he was seven years old, and in his later years he lived in Manhattan, New York.
(1852-1944) Author. C. E. S. Wood graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
(1928-2009) Novelist. Sarah E. Wright was born in Wetipquin, Maryland, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1929-2006) Poet, publisher. James L. Weil was born in New York. He lived in New Rochelle, New York, and founded the Elizabeth Press.
(1942-2009) Novelist. Elsie B. Washington was born in the Bronx, New York; she had lived in Yonkers, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1933-2008) Writer. Donald E. Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Yonkers and Albany, New York. He wrote novels, of which, most were set in New York City. He wrote under several pseudonyms including: Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, and Edwin West.
(1893-1955) Novelist, essayist, writer. Walter Francis White lived in New York City.
(1932-2008) Novelist. Charles Wright was a novelist who had lived in Manhattan, New York, and in Brooklyn, New York.
George Witte is the author of three collections of poems: “Does She Have a Name?” (NYQ Books, 2014), “Deniability” (Orchises Press, January 2009) and “The Apparitioners” (Three Rail Press, 2005). His poems have been published in a range of magazines, including Antioch Review, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, Hopkins Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, … Continued