Selma G Hirsh
(1917-2010) Author. Selma G. Hirsh was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Stamford, Connecticut.
Type: NY City
John Edwin Smith
(1921-2009) Author. John Edwin Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Arlington, Virginia.
George Sylvester Viereck
(1884-1962) Poet, writer. George Sylvester Viereck was born in Germany, and died in 1962. He was a 1906 graduate of the College of the City of New York.
Hannah Adelle Finegold Weiner
(1928-1997) Poet. Hannah Adelle Weiner was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was a member of the “language-centered” group of writers.
Theodore Weiss
(1916-2003) Poet. Theodore Weiss was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia University and later taught at Bard College. He and his wife, Renee Karol Weiss, edited Quarterly Review of Literature.
John Wieners
(1934-2002) Poet. John Wieners was born in Milton, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was enrolled in the Graduate Program at SUNY Buffalo from 1965 until 1967.
Rachel Wetzsteon
(1967-2009) Poet. Rachel Wetzsteon was born and died in Manhattan, New York. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and taught at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and at Barnard College in Manhattan, New York.
Ihor Sevcenko
(1922-2009) Author. Ihor Sevcenko was born in Radosc, Poland, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. He was a scholar of Byzantine and Slavic history and literature.
J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
(1919-2010) Writer. J. D. Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Oscar Williams
(1900-1964) Poet. Oscar Williams was born in Letychiv, Ukraine. He immigrated to New York when he was seven years old, and in his later years he lived in Manhattan, New York.