Constance Fenimore Woolson
(1840-1894) Novelist. Constance Fenimore Woolson visited in Cooperstown, New York with her relatives at various times. She graduated in 1858 from Madame Chegarary’s School, New York City.
Type: NY State
Andrew Jackson Downing
(1815-1852) Horticulturist, writer. Andrew Jackson Downing was born in Newburgh, New York and died in a boating accident in the Hudson River, New York. He was editor of “The Horticulturist” magazine from 1846 to 1852.
Trevanian Trevanian
(1931-2005) Novelist. Trevanian was born in Granville, New York. “Trevanian” was his pseudonym for Rodney William Whitaker.
Mary Lee Settle
(1918-2005) Novelist. Mary Lee Settle worked as a model and journalist in New York City and taught at Bard College in Annadale-On-Hudson, New York.
H Allen Smith
(1907-1976) Novelist. H. Allen Smith lived in Mount Kisco, New York, for 23 years.
Theodore Pratt
(1901-1969) Novelist. Theodore Pratt was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but moved with his family to New York State.
W C Heinz
(1915-2008) Writer, novelist. W. C. Heinz was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Bennington, Vermont.
Kenneth Lewis Roberts
(1885-1957) Novelist. Kenneth Lewis Roberts was a graduate of Cornell University, earning his B.A. degree in 1908.
Allan Seager
(1906-1968) Novelist. Allan Seager contracted tuberculosis and was sent to Trudeau Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York to recover.
Peter Hamilton Myers
(1812-1878) Novelist. Peter Hamilton Myers was born in Herkimer, New York and spent most of his life in New York State and New York City.