Born: October 30, 1949 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Louise Walker Borden was born in Cincinnati on October 30, 1949 to William Lee and Louise (Crutcher) Walker. Inspired by a grandmother who loved history, Borden grew up fascinated by the stories of ordinary people and their relation to historical events. An avid reader of nonfiction and historical …
Read More Borden, LouiseBorn: July 4, 1951 Ohio connection: Resident Cleveland Born July 4, 1951, poet and educator George Bilgere grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and Riverside, California. He received a B. A. from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, before earning a Ph.D. in contemporary …
Read More Bilgere, GeorgeBorn: July 20, 1924 Died: July 13, 2014 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Thomas Louis Berger, deemed “one of the 20th century’s most important writers in the English-speaking world” by the Times Literary Supplement, was born on July 20, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio. This satiric and darkly funny novelist is revered by writers and critics everywhere who, …
Read More Berger, Thomas LouisBorn: September 23, 1948 Ohio connection: Resident Kent Maggie Anderson is the author of several poetry collections, including Windfall: New and Selected Poems (2000). She is also the founder of the Wick Poetry First Book Series and the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series for Ohio Poets. Anderson co-foundedTrellis, a poetry journal, in 1971 with Winston Fuller and Irene …
Read More Anderson, MaggieBorn: July 23, 1939 Ohio connection: Birth Canton Manuel Joseph Albacete was born on July 23, 1939 in Canton, Ohio, son of Francisco Albacete (contractor) and Anna Siska Albacete. Most of his life he has lived in Canton, except for a period of eight years when the family resided in Johnstown, PA from 1946 to 1954. …
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