Mary E Cunningham
(1917-1986) Writer, editor. Mary E. Cunningham was born in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1917, and died in Cooperstown, New York, in 1986.
Type: NY State
Rebecca Harding Davis
(1831-1910) Writer, novelist. Rebecca Harding Davis died at the home of her son, Richard, in Mount Kisco, New York.
Richard Harding Davis
(1864-1916) Journalist, writer. “With Both Armies in South Africa”
Floyd Dell
Novelist, book reviewer, editor, poet, editor of the Masses. Dell worked in Chicago in the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post. In 1913, Dell left Chicago for New York and joined MAX EASTMAN at his paper the Masses. He settled in Greenwich Village. He and the Masses staff in 1917 were indicted for … Continued
Faith Baldwin
(1893-1978) Author. Faith Baldwin was a successful writer of romance and women’s fiction. She wrote around 100 novels.
John Kendrick Bangs
Writer, editor. “Tiddledywink Tales,” was born in Yonkers and spent much of his life there.He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia’s literary magazine . After graduation in 1883, Bangs entered Columbia Law School.
Jack Newfield
Jack Newfield (1938-2004) Journalist, writer. Jack Newfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and was a graduate of Hunter College. He was a writer for The Village Voice for almost 25 years.
Claude Brown
(1937-2002) Writer. Claude Brown was born in and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a student at the Wiltwyck School in Esopus, New York, which later relocated to Illington Road, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Nathanael West
(1903-1940) Novelist, screenwriter. Nathanael West was born in Manhattan, New York and is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York. In 1931, he worked on his famous novel “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1933) while vacationing in a cabin on Viele Pond near Warrensburg, New York.
Horace Greeley
(1811-1872) Editor, publisher. Founder of the New York Tribune in 1841, a large paper with a circulation of 250,000. The Tribune printed the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, etc. There is a statue of Greeley in City Hall park. He was the first newspaper editor to allow by-lines. On August 19, … Continued