Jeannette Edwards Rattray
(1893-1974) Historian of Long Island, writer. Author of “East Hampton History” (1953). “Fifty Years of the Maidstone Club,” and “Trapeze Song.”
Type: NY State
Carl Sagan
(1934-1996) Astronomer, writer. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Henrik Willem Van Loon
(1882-1944) Writer. “The Story of Mankind” (1921). Van Loon was a professor at Cornell University.
E. B. White
(1899-1985) Poet, editor, writer, novelist, essayist, writer of childrens books. E. B. White wrote “The Talk of the Town” column for the early New Yorker, several books of verse, revised “Elements of Style” (1959) by William Strunk, Jr., and such childrens books as “Stuart Little” (1945) and “Charlottes Web” (1952). He lived on East 48th … Continued
Grace Miller White
Henry Abbey
(1842-1911) Poet, writer. Henry Abbey was born and lived in Ulster County, New York.
Enid Dame
(1943-2003) Poet, editor. Enid Dame lived in High Falls, New York and in Brooklyn, New York.
Paula Danziger
(1944-2004) Writer. Paula Danziger was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Manhattan, New York. She lived in Manhattan, New York, and had a home near Woodstock, New York.
Manuel Komroff
(1890-1974) Writer, novelist, editor. Manuel Komroff lived in Woodstock, New York. He is buried in Woodstock Artists’ Cemetery, off Rock City Road, Woodstock, New York.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
(1858-1954) Botanist, writer, poet. “The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture” (1914). Bailey was a professor at Cornell University.