Green River Cemetery in Springs, Town of East Hampton, New York, is where Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jean Stafford, newspaper columnist Pierre Franey, art historian and critic Henry Geldzahler, newspaper columnist A. J. Liebling, writer Jan Yoors, poet Hilda Morley, poet Frank O’Hara, art critic Harold Rosenberg, and writer D. H. Melhem are buried.
Home Sweet Home, 14 James Lane, East Hampton, New York, is the house at which John Howard Payne spent his childhood. It is on The National Register of Historic Places, open different times, different months. Inside is a chest made in 1640 which is documented to be the oldest piece of furniture made in the … Continued
West Hills, Huntington Station, New York, is the site of Walt Whitman’s birth; it was built in 1819 by Whitman’s father and is preserved and open to public with many artifacts and original manuscripts.
Jupiter Hammon’s residence, Lloyd Manor, is a historic house museum. Tours are given from June until September. Hammon was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay and is considered to be the first black writer to be published in America.
Christopher Morley’s writing studio is preserved in the Christopher Morley Park, Roslyn.
Roslyn Cemetery, is the final resting place of William Cullen Bryant, Christopher Morley, Parke Godwin, and Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett.
Cedarmere House was the home of William Cullen Bryant from 1843 until his death in 1878.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s House is not open to public, but may be viewed from the road.
The North Atlantic Review is an annual literary journal of prose and poetry, featuring special sections on cultural and social issues. Published in Stony Brook.
The prize-winning literary journal published at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus, Confrontation features original stories and poems in addition to special supplements.