(1896-1982) Writer. Ruth Waterbury was born in New York, and died in Newbury Park, California. She was an editor of Photoplay and Silver Screen magazines. She had been a writer for The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Herald, and Coronet Magazine.
(1859-1921) Author. Frederick Upham Adams was born in Sharon, Massachusetts, and died in Larchmont, New York.
(1883-1939) Screenwriter. Douglas Fairbanks was born in Denver, Colorado, and died in Santa Monica, California. He lived for a time in Larchmont, New York.
(1944-2012) Poet. Brenda Connor-Bey Miller was born in 1944 and died in 2012. As a child, she lived in Queens, New York, and later in Greenburgh, New York. She was the first poet laureate of Greenburgh, New York.
(1830-1873) Author. Mansfield Walworth was born in Albany, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1941-2013) Songwriter. Shadow Morton was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Laguna Beach, California.
(1916-2013) Author. C. Everett Koop was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Hanover, New Hampshire.
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick, a member of EMBARK/Peekskill, a coalition of performing and literary artists, lives with her husband Mark and their sons, Aidan, Conor, and Brendan, in Peekskill, New York.
Irene Mitchell, a long-time teacher of writing, is the author of Minding the Spectrum’s Business (FutureCycle Press,2015), A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009). Formerly poetry editor of Hudson River Art Journal, Mitchell serves as poetry contest juror, and facilitator … Continued
(1930-2013) Author. Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He taught at Bard College from about 1991 until 2009.