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Finley Peter Dunne

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(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.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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(1900-1944) Writer. Antoine De Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, France, and died in a plane crash off the coast of France. He lived at 240 Central Park South at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York. He also lived on Bevin Road in Asharoken, New York, from 1942 to 1943.

Margaret Fuller

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(1810-1850) Writer, social reformer, literary critic. “Women in the Nineteenth Century” (1845), drowned near Point O’Woods, Fire Island, New York.

Joseph Heller

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(1923-1999) Novelist, writer. Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in East Hampton, New York.

Samson Occom

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(1723-1792) Writer. Occom was born in Connecticut and spent most of his life on Long Island with the Montauk tribe. He became a Christian convert. He spent a great deal of time envisioning and raising money for a Native American College. Despite these efforts, his story tells of how those funds went on to fund … Continued

Arthur B Reeve

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(1880-1936) Writer. Arthur B. Reeve attended New York Law School. He wrote the Professor Craig Kennedy series of mystery/detective novels.

(Charles) Bouck White

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Clergyman, author. Born in Middleburgh, NY. Wrote “Call of the Carpenter” (1911) which portrayed Jesus as a social agitator. Founded the Church of the Social Revolution in New York City and soon acquired a reputation as an eccentric radical. In the 1930s he retired to a mountain retreat in Voorheesville, NY.

Frank Kelly Freas

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(1922-2005) Illustrator. Frank Kelly Freas was born in Hornell, New York in 1922 and died in West Hills, California in 2005. Freas was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists.”