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 (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.
(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.
Historian, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner. “The American Leonardo: A Life Of Samuel FB Morse,” “Black Freedom,” and more.
(1937-2003) Poet, translator. “The Tale of the Amazing Tramp” (1977), “The Fable of the Final Hour” (1958), Dan Propper was born at Coney Island Hospital, lived in Woodstock, New York and Saugerties, and died in Saugerties, New York in 2003.
(1797-1833)(ISABELLA HARDENBURGH) – Anti-slavery and women’s equality activist, speaker. “Ain’t I A Woman,” was born into slavery near Kingston and later became a passionate advocate for equality.
(1837-1902) Novelist, historian. Edward Eggleston worked on two volumes of U.S. history while at Owls Nest, the estate near Lake George, New York. Eggleston died there in 1902.
(1822-1903)(EDMUND KIRKE) – Novelist. He wrote novels about the Civil War under the pen name Edmund Kirke. He died in Glens Falls, NY in 1903.
(1918-1990) Journalist. “The New York World-Telegram”
(1893-1974) Historian of Long Island, writer. Author of “East Hampton History” (1953). “Fifty Years of the Maidstone Club,” and “Trapeze Song.”