Robert Stuart Fitzgerald
(1910-1985) Poet. Robert Fitzgerald was born in Geneva, New York, but grew up in Illinois. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1984 to 1985.
Type: NY State
Elsie Bernice Washington
(1942-2009) Novelist. Elsie B. Washington was born in the Bronx, New York; she had lived in Yonkers, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Nathan Haskell Dole
(1852-1935) Editor, translator, author. Nathan Haskell Dole was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and lived most of his life in Massachusetts. At the age of seventy-six, he and his wife moved to New York City bo be near their daughter and grandchildren.
Robert Edward Duncan
(1919-1988) Poet. Robert Duncan lived briefly in Woodstock, New York.
Marya Zaturenska
(1902-1982) Poet. Marya Zaturenska lived in Palisades, New York. She was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
Daniel Button
(1917-2009) Editor, writer. Daniel Button was born in Dunkirk, New York, and died in Albany, New York. He was executive editor of the Albany Times-Union in Albany, New York from 1960 to 1966.
John Clarke
(1933-1992) Poet. John “Jack” Clarke was born in Ohio in 1933 and taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for twenty-nine years.
Dorothy P Lathrop
(1891-1980) Author, illustrator. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born in Albany, New York. She wrote and illustrated many children’s books.
Florence Crannell Means
(1891-1980) Author. Florence Crannell Means was born in Baldwinsville, New York, and died in Boulder, Colorado. She wrote over forty books.
Erick Berry
(1892-1974) Author, illustrator. Erick Berry is the pseudonym for Allena Champlin. She was born in Massachusetts, but grew up in Albany, New York.