Born: July 10, 1914Died: July 30, 1992 Ohio connection: Resident Cleveland Joseph Shuster was born July 10, 1914, in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Cleveland with his family at the age of ten. From an early age Joe Shuster demonstrated a penchant for drawing, scrounging paper from various sources as his family was not wealthy. Shuster, …
Read More Joe ShusterBorn: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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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