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Donald Justice

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(1925-2004) Poet. Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, and died in Iowa City, Iowa. He taught at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Alvan Stewart

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Writer, lawyer, abolitionist. Practiced law in Cherry Valley. In 1832 he moved to Utica and continued his practice, but gave a lot of his attention to the temperance and anti-slavery causes. In 1835 he organized an anti-slavery convention in Utica which formed the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. He delivered many speeches on the topic … Continued

Andrew C Wheeler

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(1835-1903)(TRINCULO, NYM CRINCKLE, J. P. MOWBRAY) Drama critic, writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City. Wheeler began newspaper work in 1857 on the staff of the New York Times, and later became city editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel. While in Wisconsin he published “The Chronicles of Milwaukee” (1861). Soon after the outbreak … Continued

Irving Bacheller

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(1859-1950) Journalist, author. Irving Bacheller was born in Pierrepont, New York, and graduated from Saint Lawrence University in Canton, New York, in 1882. In 1883, in Brooklyn, New York, he founded the Bacheller Syndicate, the first newspaper syndicate of its kind, which provided articles to large weekend editions of newspapers. The Bacheller Syndicate also serialized … Continued

Abbie Hoffman

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(1936-1989) Writer. Abbie Hoffman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He wrote “Revolution For The Hell Of It.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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(1806-1867) Editor, journalist, belles-lettrist. Nathaniel Parker Willis lived in Owego, New York, in the late 1830s and early 1840s and, also, lived in Orange County, New York. He wrote a series of “Letters from Under a Bridge” for the “New York Mirror,” later collected in the volume “A l’Abri; or, The Tent Pitched” (1839).

Kay Boyle

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(1902-1992) Writer. Kay Boyle lived in Nyack, New York, in the early 1940s and taught a night course at Nyack High School.

Winston Churchill

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(1871-1947) Novelist. Not the British prime minister you were thinking about, but the best-selling popular novelist around the turn of the century. Churchill was known for his historical and political novels. He lived in South Nyack, New York.

Morgan Robertson

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(1861-1915) Short story writer, novelist. He wrote and published over 200 stories. He wrote “The Wreck of the Titan” in 1898, which had details so identical to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, that it was seen as prophecy. He is one of America’s most known and accomplished authors on the subject of the … Continued