(1819-1892) Poet. Walt Whitman moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1823, when he was four years old, and lived there for much of his life. He taught school in Woodbury, New York; the schoolhouse has been restored. West Hills, Huntington Station, New York is the site of Whitman’s birth, built in 1819 by Whitman’s father, … Continued
Writer, playwright. “Why Marry?.” Lived in Herkimer County.
(1829-1900) Editor, novelist. Charles Dudley Warner graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1845 and enrolled at Hamilton College in 1848. After practicing law in Chicago, he edited the “Hartford Courant.” He also edited the “American Men of Letters” series, for which he wrote a life of Washington Irving, and also the “Library of the Worlds Best … Continued
(1895-1972) Editor, critic, author. Edmund Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He is considered one of the most important American literary and social critics of the 20th century. He was managing editor of “Vanity Fair” (1920-21), also on the staffs of the “New Republic” (1926-31) and the “New Yorker” (1944-48). He summered in … Continued
(1822-1871) Poet. James M. Whitfield lived in Buffalo, New York, and from 1849-1852 his anti-slavery poetry was published in Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, “The North Star.” The collection was published in 1853 as “America and Other Poems.”
(1883-1963) William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, into a Spanish speaking household. Williams received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Ezra Pound. Williams worked in Manhattan, New York, and was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1952.
(1920-2003) Writer, novelist. Sloan Wilson was born in Westport, Connecticut, was a SUNY Buffalo English professor and public information director from 1952 to 1955. He lived on High Ridge Road, Pound Ridge, New York, in the late 1950s and in Ticonderoga, New York both at the Rogers Rock Club and at 207 Champlain Avenue, during … Continued
(1846-1898) Writer, novelist. Edward Noyes Westcott was born in Syracuse, New York, and died at his home at 990 James Street, Syracuse, New York. He worked on “David Harum, A Story of American Life” while in Meacham Lake, New York for tuberculosis treatment.
(1884-1978) Poet and novelist. Margaret Widdemer lived the last years of her life, and died, in Gloversville, New York, in 1978; she is buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
(1827-1923) Candace Wheeler founded the “Onteora Club,” a colony of authors and artists. Mark Twain, John Burroughs, Henry B. Fuller and others stayed there.