Lawrence Schwab
(1893-1951) Librettist. “No, No, Nanette” (1925), lived and died in Southhampton, New York.
Type: NY State
Seba Smith
(1792-1868)(MAJOR JACK DOWNING) – Writer, editor. Born in Buckfield, Maine. “National Intelligencer.”
George Sterling
(1869-1926) Poet. George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, New York.
Booker T Washington
(1856-1915) Writer, educator. Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Virginia, and died in Tuskagee, Alabama. He owned a house, still standing, near Cousins Avenue, Fort Salonga, Northport, New York, in 1911.
Clarence Willis
(1852-?) – Writer, historian. “The Pulteney Land Title”
Nelson Algren
(1909-1981) Writer. “The Man with the Golden Arm” (1949) – National Book Award (1950)
W. H. Alden
Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
(1870-1934) Writer. Mary Shell Hoke Bacon lived in Manhattan, New York. She was also know as Dolores Bacon.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
(1842-1914) Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio. He wrote many collections of poetry, short stories, and essays.
Finley Peter Dunne
(1867-1936) Writer, journalist. “Mr. Dooley In Peace And War” (1898). Dunne lived in Southampton, New York, during the summers in the 1920s and 1930s.