(1941-2007) Historian. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1941, and died in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2007. A professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1986, Fox-Genovese taught previously at the University of Rochester and the State University of New York at Binghamton.
(1941-2006) Writer, novelist. Frederick Busch was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He taught at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, from 1966 to 2003.
(1908-2006) Author. Robert L. Scott, Jr. was born in Macon, Georgia in 1908 and died in Macon, Georgia in 2006. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1932 and served in the United States Air Force from 1932 to 1957. He was assigned to Mitchell Field, New York in 1933. He wrote about … Continued
(1895/96-1963) Composer, song writer. Lecuona was born in Cuba in 1895 or 1896 and died in the Canary Islands in 1963. Songs include, “Siboney,” “Malagueña,” and “Andalucia.” Lecuona’s final resting place is in the Gate Of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.
DEBORAH TALL (????-2006) Writer, poet. Deborah Tall was born in Washington, DC. She began teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York in 1982, and had lived in Ithaca, New York since 1990. Ms. Tall died in 2006. Her work includes “Summons” (2000), “The Island of the White Cow” (1987), “From Where … Continued
(1923-1987) John Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1923. From 1966 to 1985, he was an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987 in San Francisco, California.
(1894-1982) Publisher, editor. James Sibley Watson was born in New York and worked in Rochester, New York. Watson was the publisher of “The Dial” from 1920-1929.
(1928-2005) Poet. Donald A. Petersen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1928 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2005. He taught at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, New York for 38 years, retiring as professor of English in 1993.
(Died in 2006, aged 61 years) Writer. John Mohawk was a longtime professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, and author of many essays, speeches, books and articles.
ELENA ALEXANDER is a writer and poet. Ms. Alexander’s book, Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page, published by Gordon + Breach, will have a reading/performance at The Kitchen on Tuesday, October 20, 1998, at 8 PM. Her work has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (Henry Holt & Co.), … Continued