Helen Yglesias
(1915-2008) Novelist. Helen Yglesias wrote novels about the lives of women. She had also worked as an editor at The Nation magazine.
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Richard Yates
(1926-1992) Novelist, short story writer. Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, New York and died Birmingham, Alabama.
Anzia Yezierska
(1885-1970) Novelist. Anzia Yezierska was born in Pinsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. She immigrated with her family to New York City around 1890. She wrote of the struggles of the immigrants in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Stark Young
(1881-1963) Novelist. Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi and died in New York City. He received his Master’s degree in English from Columbia University.
Ann Eliza Webb Young
(1844-?) Writer, lecturer. “Wife No. 19: The Story of a Life In Bondage” (1875), spoke against polygamy and Morman practices.
Elizabeth Yates
(1905-2001) Writer, novelist. Elizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Concord, New Hampshire.
John H Yates
(1837-1900) Poet. John H. Yates lived in Batavia, New York. His house on Washington Avenue and State Street has been accepted by the National Register of Historic Places.