Born: November 6, 1916Died: October 7, 2011 Ohio connection: Resident Lakewood Journalist, author, and historian George E. Condon was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, but grew up in the Irish neighborhoods of Cleveland’s Near West Side. Condon’s parents, who immigrated from Ireland, moved the family to Cleveland in 1927 when Condon was 11 years old. …
Read More George E. CondonOn Saturday, October 21, 2017, the Columbus Ohio Fiction Writers chapter of RWA® will host an all-day (9 to 5) workshop featuring author Larry Brooks at the Courtyard Marriott in Columbus (2350 Westbest Drive). Although this workshop is sponsored by a Romance Writers of America chapter, Mr. Brooks’ books, Story Fix, Story Engineering and Story …
Read More Author Larry Brooks to speak in Columbus on October 21, 2017Born: September 10, 1892Died: March 15, 1962 Ohio connection: Birth Wooster Arthur Holly Compton, son of Elias and Otelia Catherine (Augspurger) Compton, was born in 1892 in Wooster, Ohio. His father was a Presbyterian minister, professor of philosophy and dean at the College of Wooster. Six members of the Compton family eventually received a total of more than …
Read More Arthur Holly ComptonBorn: 1940 Ohio connection: Resident Oberlin Poet, translator, and editor, Martha Collins was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1940. She earned a B.A. at Stanford University and holds a PhD. from the University of Iowa. She has published books of poetry, including Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Day Unto Day, White Papers, and Blue Front, a book-length …
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Perhaps you’ve already seen “From Cleveland to Krypton,” the Superman exhibit running currently at Cleveland Public Library, and were impressed by the amount of influence this beloved American icon has had–and continues to have–in our culture. Maybe you left the exhibit wondering why it is that Superman, who has been incarnated in varying images since …
Read More Why Superman Matters? Award-Winning Comic Book Writer Mark Waid Will Answer in Lecture at Lake Erie College October 11, 2017Born: September 22, 1930Died: February 28, 2016 Ohio connection: Resident Columbus Paul Alfred Colinvaux was an eminent paleoecologist and educator who wrote about ecological issues. He was born in St. Albans, England. Colinvaux graduated from University College School. In post-World War II England, he entered the British military, serving in Germany. Colinvaux pursued his education after …
Read More Paul ColinvauxBorn: 1968 Ohio connection: Former Resident Cincinnati Brockway Clarke was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Peter Paslee (an English professor) and Elaine Giustina (a dental hygienist) Clarke. His family moved to Little Falls in upstate New York when he was three and he lived there for the next twenty-six years before moving to South Carolina and then …
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The impetus for The Dayton Literary Peace Prize was the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, It is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, justice, and global understanding. A winner and runner-up in fiction and nonfiction will …
Read More 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists AnnouncedBorn: August 25, 1929 Died: April 11, 2016 Ohio connection: Resident Yellow Springs Suzanne P. Clauser was born and grew up in a suburb near New York City. She attended Indiana University and was graduated in 1951 with a degree in American and British literature. In the same year, she married Charles Clauser, a graduate student finishing a Ph.D. …
Read More Suzanne Phillips ClauserBorn: September 19, 1957Died: December 26, 2015 Ohio connection: Resident Cincinnati Children’s book author and educator Andrea Cheng was born in El Paso, Texas. The daughter of Hungarian immigrants who grew up and lived most of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, she and her two siblings grew up in an extended family, which Cheng once described as …
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