Clergyman, author. Born in Middleburgh, NY. Wrote “Call of the Carpenter” (1911) which portrayed Jesus as a social agitator. Founded the Church of the Social Revolution in New York City and soon acquired a reputation as an eccentric radical. In the 1930s he retired to a mountain retreat in Voorheesville, NY.
(1924-2004) Writer. “58 Minutes” (1987), was born in the Bronx and lived in Manhattan, where he died.
(1913-1998) Playwright, librettist, novelist. Jerome Weidman lived in the Bronx, New York.
(1835-1903)(TRINCULO, NYM CRINCKLE, J. P. MOWBRAY) Drama critic, writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City. Wheeler began newspaper work in 1857 on the staff of the New York Times, and later became city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel. While in Wisconsin he published “The Chronicles of Milwaukee” (1861). Soon after the outbreak … Continued
(1930-1986) Poet. Works: “Green in the Body “(1979), “Flogging the Czar” (1983). He had a home in Putnam Valley. He also lived at 110 Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
Writer. “My Brother’s Keeper”
Writer, educator. Founded the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) on Second Street
(1806-1867) Editor, journalist, belles-lettrist. Nathaniel Parker Willis lived in Owego, New York, in the late 1830s and early 1840s and, also, lived in Orange County, New York. He wrote a series of “Letters from Under a Bridge” for the “New York Mirror,” later collected in the volume “A l’Abri; or, The Tent Pitched” (1839).
(c.1811-1852) Writer. Frances Miriam (Berry) Whitcher was born and died in the Town of Whitestown, New York.
(1886-1978) Poet, editor. John Hall Wheelock was born in Rockaway, New York, lived in East Hampton, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.