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Wendy Wasserstein

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(1950-2006) Playwright. Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. She received an M. A. in creative writing from City College of New York. She died in New York, New York in 2006.

Emmett Williams

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(1925-2007) Emmett Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1925, and died in Berlin, Germany in 2007. He was an artist and poet who, in 1966, took a job as editor in chief of The Something Else Press, a publishing house in New York City.

Robert Anton Wilson

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(1932-2007) Writer. Robert Anton Wilson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932 and died in Capitola, California in 2007. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnical College and New York University. He was co-author of “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” which included “The Eye in the Pyramid,” “The Golden Apple,” and “Leviathan.”

James Sibley Watson Jr

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(1894-1982) Publisher, editor. James Sibley Watson was born in New York and worked in Rochester, New York. Watson was the publisher of “The Dial” from 1920-1929.

Ellen Willis

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(1941-2006) Journalist. Ellen Jane Willis was born in Manhattan, New York in 1941. She grew up in the Bronx and Queens and graduated from Barnard in 1962. She died in Queens in 2006.

Michael Waters

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Michael Waters teaches at Salisbury State University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His six books include Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (BOA Editions) & Bountiful (Carnegie Mellon, 1992). BOA will publish New & Selected Poems in 2000. He has edited the 7th Edition of Contemporary American Poetry, due next year from Houghton Mifflin. … Continued

Anne Wilson

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Various pieces by Anne Wilson have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, South Dakota Review, Evansville Review, Oxford Magazine, Weber Studies, Osiris, The Owen Wister Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Runes, The Comstock Review, Rattle, New Millenium Writings, Spillway, The Rio Grande Review, Manzanita, Weber: The Contemporary West, and many others (400 poems and counting.) Anthologies include … Continued

Michele Wolf

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Michele Wolf is the author of Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Press, 1998, Anhinga Prize for Poetry), which Yusef Komunyakaa called “a logbook of gutsy revelations, transporting us to a territory both ethereal and earthy. We care about the lives that nudge us awake in this dark luminosity, a heartfelt journey we don’t want to miss.” … Continued

Martin Willitts Jr

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Martin Willitts Jr is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He currently evaluates Prior Learning Evaluations for SUNY Empire State College. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 11 Pushcart and 12 Best of the Net awards. He provided his hands-on workshop “How to Make … Continued

Irving Weiss

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Irving Weiss was born in the Bronx, New York, and attended public schools in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Michigan in 1942 and then served 1942-1945 in the 95th Infantry Division in Europe. After receiving his Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from Columbia University … Continued