Millard Fillmore Roberts
Author of “Historical Gazetteer of Steuben County, New York, With Memoirs and Illustrations.”
Type: NY State
Mark Harris
(1922-2007) Novelist, biographer. Mark Harris was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Santa Barbara, California. He was known for his novels about a mythical baseball player.
Timothy Shay Arthur
(1809-1885) Novelist. Timothy Shay Arthur was born near Newburgh, New York and lived in Fort Montgomery, New York.
John Dudley Ball
(1911-1988) Author. John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York in 1911.
Richard Hofstadter
(1916-1970) Historian. Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 and died in 1970. Hofstadter was the winner of two Pulitzer prizes.
David Halberstam
(1934-2007) Journalist, author. David Halberstam was born in New York City in 1934. Halberstam worked for the “Daily Times Leader” in West Point, Mississippi, the “Nashville Tennessean,” the “New York Times,” and “Harper’s” magazine. Halberstam was a 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on the Viet Nam war. Mr. Halberstam died in a car … Continued
Ruth Green West
(1905-2007) Poet.
Elise Dallemagne-Cookson
(1933-2005) Writer. Elise Camille Dallemagne-Cookson lived in Cherry Valley, New York.
Alan J Shalleck
Alan Shalleck collaborated with Margret Rey in writing several books and short television episodes about “Curious George.”
Emily Weisberg Sunstein
(1924-2007) Biographer. Emily Sunstein was born in Dallas, Texas in 1924 and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2007.