A R Ammons
(1926-2001) Poet. Archie Randolph Ammons was the author of many collections of poetry. Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
(1858-1954) Botanist, writer, poet. “The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture” (1914). Bailey was a professor at Cornell University.
Margaret Bourke-White
(1904-1971) Photographer, journalist. “Shooting the Russian War” (1942). “North of the Danube” (with ERSKINE CALDWELL) (1939); studied at Columbia University in 1922.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(1892-1973) Author. Pearl Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is famous for her vivid, compassionate … Continued
Murray Burnett
(1911-1997) Writer. “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” (later made into the movie “Casablanca”)(1942). Burnett received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1931.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
(1882-1961) Writer, novelist. Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most prolific female writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Alex Haley
(1921-1992) Writer. Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Laura Riding
(1901-1991) Writer, poet, critic. Laura Riding (Alternative name: Laura Riding Jackson) was born in Manhattan, New York, and attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Lawrence Schwab
(1893-1951) Librettist. “No, No, Nanette” (1925), lived and died in Southhampton, New York.
Seba Smith
(1792-1868)(MAJOR JACK DOWNING) – Writer, editor. Born in Buckfield, Maine. “National Intelligencer.”