(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.
(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.
(1919-2010) Writer. J. D. Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire.
(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.
(1866-1921) Poet. Bert Leston Taylor was born in Goshen, Massachusetts and died in Chicago, Illinois. He had lived in the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Yorkville in Manhattan, New York.
(1841-1918) Writer. Minot Judson Savage was born in Norridgewock, Maine, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was pastor of the Church Of The Messiah in New York City from 1896 until 1906.
(1902-1978) Poet, critic. Eli Siegel was born in Dvinsk, Latvia, but lived most of his life in New York City.
(1858-1908) Poet. Langdon Smith was born in Kentucky and died in Brooklyn, New York.
(1926-2009) Writer. Nan Robertson was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Rockville, Maryland. She was a reporter for The New York Times.
(1833-1908) Poet. Edmund Clarence Stedman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in New York City.