(1791-1852) Playwright, poet, actor. John Payne was born in New York. He wrote over 65 plays. At 14, while working in a New York counting house, he spent his spare hours editing and published the Thespian Mirror, a journal of events and gossip in the theatrical world of the time. Mr. Payne’s first play “Julia;” … Continued
Born in Middleburgh. He was the publisher and editor of the Middleburgh News for 37 years. He wrote “A Summer at Cozy Nook Farm” in 1921.
(1871-1960) Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., was born on the Goodyear-Van Wagenen farm in Lawyersville, New York, on May 14, 1871, and lived there until his death on March 25, 1960. The Goodyear family moved to central New York in 1790, ultimately settling in Lawyersville in 1800. One of Jared Goodyear’s daughters married Rynear Van Wagenen, … Continued
(1842-1903) Playwright. Bronson Howard was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey. He worked as a journalist in New York for the Evening Mail, the Tribune, and the Evening Post. He had a home in New Rochelle, New York.
Knapp wrote “Sob Ballads” and from 1925-1943 many stories for the New Yorker.
(1890-1980) Writer, novelist. Katherine Anne Porter lived at 75 Washington Place, Manhattan, New York. In 2006 the United States Postal Service issued its twenty-second stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Katherine Anne Porter.
Sherwood wrote “The Coming of the Tide,” “The Princess Pourquoi,” and many articles/poems for Scribners and Atlantic Monthly.
(c.1886-1975) Writer. Caroline Slade studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Besides her books, Slade had stories published in the New Yorker. She was the first president of the foundation that built the Yaddo writers’ colony.
(1892-1976) Short story writer. He had stories published in New Yorker, Good Housekeeping (the lesson is live in Saratoga and get published in the New Yorker).
(1825-1894) Poet, historian. Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester was born in Denmark, New York.