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Region: Hudson Valley

Kensico Cemetery

Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place for Peter Arno, Marion Bauer, Thomas Broadhurst, Paddy Chayefsky, Dorothy Graham, John McGowan, Harold Milligan, Allan Nevins, Anne Nichols, David Graham Phillips, Ayn Rand, Sydney Rosenfeld, Deems Taylor, Francis Wilson, and Keith Winter.

United States Military Academy at West Point

West Point, 50 miles North of New York City, has many literary connections. Among the writers associated with West Point are George Horatio Derby (graduated 1846), Timothy Dwight (chaplain 1777-1779), William Faulkner (visited 1962), Charles King (graduated 1866), James Gates Percival (assistant surgeon & professor of chemistry, 1824), Edgar Allen Poe (cadet, 1830-1831), Carl Sandburg … Continued

Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Gate of Heaven Cemetery is the final resting place for writers Anton Bilotti, Bob Considine, Ernesto Lecuona, Conde Nast, Heywood Broun, George Jean Nathan, Dorothy Kilgallen, William J. Burns, and Westbrook Pegler.

Vassar College

Vassar College was the alma mater of many poets and writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, Muriel Rukeyser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the poet/librarian Marianne Moore.