Born: November 30, 1904Died: March 11, 1967 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Charles Allen Smart, son of George and Lucy (Allen) Smart, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1926. He worked for Doubleday, Page & Co. and Doubleday Doran (publishers) as an editorial assistant from 1927 until 1930. …
Read More Charles Allen SmartBorn: 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: May 2, 1950Died: April 12, 2009 Ohio Connection: Birth Dayton Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was born May 2, 1950, in Dayton, Ohio, to Leon Kosofsky (an engineer) and Rita Goldstein Kosofsky (a high school teacher). She had two siblings, a brother and a sister. During her childhood the family moved to Bethesda, Maryland, when her father accepted …
Read More Eve Kosofsky SedgwickBorn: 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: 1957 Ohio connection: Birth Ashtabula Connie Schultz was raised in Ashtabula by working-class parents and received her bachelors degree in journalism from Kent State University in 1979. In addition to her biweekly column for the Cleveland Plain Dealer/Creators Syndicate, she has written two memoirs: Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths and … And His Lovely Wife: A …
Read More Connie SchultzBorn: February 27, 1888Died: October 30, 1965 Ohio connection: Birth Xenia Arthur Meier Schlesinger was born in Xenia, Ohio, on February 27, 1888, the son of a first-generation immigrant. Schlesinger graduated in 1910 from Ohio State University in Columbus. During his stay at Ohio State, he married Elizabeth Bancroft; and their son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., became …
Read More Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.Born: 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 SchaeferBorn: 1953 Ohio connection: Birth Seaman Julie Salamon was born in Seaman, Ohio, daughter of Alexander (a physician) and Lilly (a businesswoman; maiden name, Rapaport). Her father had survived Dachau death camp though his first wife and baby girl were lost to the gas chambers. After the war, he returned to Prague where he met Lilly, …
Read More Julie SalamonBorn: 1954 Ohio connection: Resident Rootstown It took Cynthia Rylant only one hour to write her first book, When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982), a collection of vignettes describing the years she spent with her grandparents in Appalachia. Born in Hopewell, Virginia, in 1954, Rylant spent her first four years in Illinois. When she was four, …
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