Born: June 15, 1931Died: August 15, 1996 Ohio connection: Birth Columbus George Edwin Starbuck, son of George W. and Anna Margaret Polaski (born Starbuck) Beiswanger, was born June 15, 1931, in Columbus, Ohio. George Edwin’s surname was legally changed from Beiswanger to Starbuck after his parents’ divorce. Starbuck grew up in Illinois and California. At age 16, …
Read More George Edwin StarbuckBorn: 1950 Ohio connection: Resident Cleveland Heights Tricia Springstubb has published over a dozen books for young readers. What Happened on Fox Street was published by HarperCollins in August 2010. Her adult fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Hunger Mountain, and Brain, Child, and she’s a frequent book critic for The Plain Dealer. She is …
Read More Springstubb, TriciaBorn: July 30, 1929 Died: May 9, 2011 Ohio connection: Birth Belden Robert Elwayne Skimin, son of Ellwyn W. and Mildred L. (Summerton) Skimin, was born in 1929 in Belden, Ohio. He attended Monmouth Junior College, 1948-49; University of Georgia, 1957-58; South Dakota School of Technology, 1959-60; and Cornish School of Allied Arts, 1967-68. He served with …
Read More Skimin, Robert ElwayneBorn: 1975 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Curtis Sittenfeld was born in Cincinnati. The second child of four, she is the daughter of Paul G. Sittenfeld (an investment banker) and Elizabeth Curtis (an art history teacher). She attended Seven Hills School in Cincinnati through 8th Grade and then moved to the Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts …
Read More Sittenfeld, CurtisBorn: 1975 Ohio connection: Birth Parma Writer Salvatore Scibona was born in Parma, Ohio, to an ethnic Italian-Polish family. In 1997 he graduated from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in 1999 he earned an M.F.A. from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 2000 he was awarded …
Read More Scibona, SalvatoreBorn: June 13, 1940Died: September 25, 2016 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland David Budbill was born in Cleveland in 1940 to a streetcar driver and a minister’s daughter. He is the author of ten poetry collections, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, dozens of essays, introductions, speeches and …
Read More David BudbillBorn: 1945 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Ted Schwarz was born Theodore R. Schwarz in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the son of Theodore R. and Ruth Dorothy. Ted Schwarz attended Case Western Reserve University, 1964-66, 1971; New York Institute of Photography, 1965; and The University of the South School of Theology, 1992-1995. Ted Schwarz is a …
Read More Schwarz, TedBorn: 1944 Ohio Connection: Birth Cincinnati Stanley Albert Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Schmidt received his B.S. from the University of Cincinnati in 1966 and both an M.A. and Ph.D., from Case Western Reserve University in 1968 and 1969, respectively. From 1969 to 1978 he was the assistant professor of physics at Heidelberg College in …
Read More Schmidt, StanleyBorn: November 19, 1907Died: January 24, 1991 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Jack Warner Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907. Growing up in a house of voracious readers, Schaefer read everything from the exotic “Tarzan” stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs to the thrilling western fiction of Zane Grey. In 1910, Schaefer’s family moved to Lakewood, Ohio. …
Read More Jack SchaeferBradford Born: 1969 Ohio connection: Resident John Michael Scalzi II was born in Fairfield, California. He graduated high school (Webb School of California) in 1987 and earned an A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1991. During his 1989–1990 school year, Scalzi was the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon. After college, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for …
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