Writers and poets buried in New York

• Mark Twain1835-1910
  American author and humorist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY
• Theodore Roosevelt1858-1919
  26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
  Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay Cove, NY
• Louis Armstrong1901-1971
  American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
  Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Martin Van Buren1782-1862
  President of the United States from 1837 to 1841
  Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, NY
• Carl Sagan1934-1996
  American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
  Lake View Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Herman Melville1819-1891
  American writer and poet
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Ayn Rand1905-1982
  Russian-born American writer and public philosopher
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Andrew Carnegie1835-1919
  Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Mae West1893-1980
  American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Washington Irving1783-1859
  American writer, historian and diplomat
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Elie Wiesel1928-2016
  Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Alexander Hamilton1757-1804
  American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757-1804)
  Trinity Churchyard, New York City, NY
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse1791-1872
  American inventor and painter
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Gary Cooper1901-1961
  American actor
  Sacred Hearts Cemetery, Tuckahoe, NY
• Harry Houdini1874-1926
  Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
  Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Frederick Douglass1818-1895
  African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Susan B. Anthony1820-1906
  American women's rights activist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• James Cagney1899-1986
  American actor and dancer
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Philip Roth1933-2018
  American novelist
  Bard College Cemetery, Tivoli, NY
• Piet Mondrian1872-1944
  Dutch painter
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Mario Puzo1920-1999
  American author, screenwriter, and journalist
  North Babylon Cemetery, North Babylon, NY
• Anne Bancroft1931-2005
  American actress
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Leonard Bernstein1918-1990
  American conductor and composer
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• James Baldwin1924-1987
  American writer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Ludwig von Mises1881-1973
  Austrian-American economist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815-1902
  American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Paul Auster1947-2024
  American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Frances Hodgson Burnett1849-1924
  English-American playwright and author
  Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, NY
• Irving Berlin1888-1989
  American composer and lyricist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Dorothy Parker1893-1967
  American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Sidney Lumet1924-2011
  American director, producer and screenwriter
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Nellie Bly1864-1922
  American journalist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Montgomery Clift1920-1966
  American actor
  Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Sholem Aleichem1859-1916
  Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States
  Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Henry George1839-1897
  American political economist and journalist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Robert Capa1913-1954
  American photographer
  Amawalk Hill Cemetery, Yorktown Heights, NY
• Margaret Sanger1879-1966
  American birth control activist and nurse
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Karen Horney1885-1952
  American-German psychoanalyst
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• David Rockefeller1915-2017
  American banker and philanthropist
  Rockefeller Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Louise Bourgeois1911-2010
  French-American artist
  Cutchogue Cemetery, Cutchogue, NY
• Danny Kaye1911-1987
  American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Carson McCullers1917-1967
  American writer
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• Barbara W. Tuchman1912-1989
  American historian and author
  Temple Israel Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• Lewis H. Morgan1818-1881
  American anthropologist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Dorothy Day1897-1980
  American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert
  Cemetery of the Resurrection, Staten Island, NY
• Richard Holbrooke1941-2010
  American diplomat
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020
  American author of suspense novels
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Lorenzo Da Ponte1749-1838
  Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest
  Calvary Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Sergei Dovlatov1941-1990
  Soviet writer
  Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY
• George Balanchine1904-1983
  American choreographer, dancer and ballet master
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• Michel Fokine1880-1942
  Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• E. L. Doctorow1931-2015
  Novelist, editor, professor
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Andy Kaufman1949-1984
  American entertainer
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Winsor McCay1869-1934
  American cartoonist and animator
  The Evergreens Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Louise Brooks1906-1985
  American actress
  Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Ed Sullivan1901-1974
  American television host
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Ernst Toller1893-1939
  German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Horace Greeley1811-1872
  American politician and publisher
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Herman Wouk1915-2019
  American writer
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Alan J. Pakula1928-1998
  American film director, writer and producer
  Green River Cemetery, Springs, NY
• Robert Sheckley1928-2005
  American writer
  Woodstock Artists Cemetery, Woodstock, NY
• Ze'ev Jabotinsky1880-1940
  Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement
  New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
• Ralph Waite1928-2014
  American actor
  White Plains Rural Cemetery, White Plains, NY
• Jerome Kern1885-1945
  American composer of musical theater and popular music
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Henry Ward Beecher1813-1887
  American clergyman and activist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Carrie Chapman Catt1859-1947
  American social reformer, suffragist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Geraldine Ferraro1935-2011
  American politician
  Saint John Cemetery, Queens, NY
• John Jacob Astor IV1864-1912
  American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel
  Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
• Fred Allen1894-1956
  American comedian
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Emma Lazarus1849-1887
  American poet
  B'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery, Queens, NY
• William Cullen Bryant1794-1878
  American romantic poet and journalist
  Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, NY
• Paul Bowles1910-1999
  American composer and writer
  Lakemont Cemetery, Dundee, NY
• Ben Hecht1894-1964
  American writer, director, and producer
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• John William Draper1811-1882
  British-American academic
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Gil Scott-Heron1949-2011
  American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Harriet Quimby1875-1912
  American aviator, screenwriter
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Edwin Stanton Porter1870-1941
  American film pioneer
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Walt Whitman Rostow1916-2003
  American economist, political theorist and government official
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Charles A. Beard1874-1948
  American historian
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Nathanael West1903-1940
  American writer and screenwriter
  Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY
• James Jones1921-1977
  American author
  Poxabogue Evergreen Cemetery, Bridgehampton, NY
• Ruth Chatterton1892-1961
  American actress
  Beechwoods Cemetery, Pelham, NY
• Nelson Algren1909-1981
  American novelist, short story writer
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• Rube Goldberg1883-1970
  American cartoonist
  Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
• Gloria Vanderbilt1924-2019
  American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer
  Vanderbilt Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
• Joel Asaph Allen1838-1921
  American zoologist and ornithologist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, NY
• Carl Schurz1829-1906
  Union Army general, politician
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Zecharia Sitchin1920-2010
  American-Israeli author of Azerbaijani origin
  New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
• Dom DeLuise1933-2009
  American actor
  Calvary Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Geraldine Farrar1882-1967
  American soprano opera singer and film actress
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Oscar Hammerstein II1895-1960
  American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Harry Carey1878-1947
  American actor
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Raymond Smullyan1919-2017
  American mathematician
  Evergreen Cemetery, Tannersville, NY
• Roy Cohn1927-1986
  American lawyer
  Union Field Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Ossie Davis1917-2005
  American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Nella Larsen1891-1964
  American novelist, librarian, nurse
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Albert Gallatin1761-1849
  Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar
  Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
• Hal Roach1892-1992
  American filmmaker
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY
• Robert Downey Sr.1936-2021
  American filmmaker and actor
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Preston Sturges1898-1959
  American film director and screenwriter
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Liberty Hyde Bailey1858-1954
  U.S. botanist
  Lake View Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Crystal Eastman1881-1928
  American lawyer and feminist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
• Paddy Chayefsky1923-1981
  American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Paul du Chaillu1835-1903
  French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Herbert Brenon1880-1958
  Irish film director and screenwriter
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• James John Corbett1866-1933
  American boxer
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Jim Carroll1949-2009
  American author, poet, and punk musician
  Saint Peters Cemetery, Haverstraw, NY
• William Gaddis1922-1998
  American novelist
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• William S. Hart1864-1946
  American actor, film director
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Natallia Arsiennieva1903-1997
  Belarusian poet
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Frank O'Hara1926-1966
  American poet, art critic and writer
  Green River Cemetery, Springs, NY
• Mary Ritter Beard1876-1958
  American historian and women's suffrage activist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Nathaniel Lord Britton1859-1934
  American botanist and geologist
  Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
• John Lloyd Stephens1805-1852
  American explorer, writer, and diplomat
  New York City Marble Cemetery, New York City, NY
• Marilyn French1929-2009
  Novelist, critic
  Pinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, NY
• Alison Lurie1926-2020
  American novelist and academic
  Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Olive Thomas1894-1920
  American silent film actress, model
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• James Montgomery Flagg1877-1960
  American artist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Jackie Mason1928-2021
  American comedian
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• James Salter1925-2015
  American novelist and short-story writer
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• William Moulton Marston1893-1947
  American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Cornell Woolrich1903-1968
  American author and screenwriter
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• George M. Cohan1878-1942
  American entertainer, composer and playwright
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Robert Evans1930-2019
  American film producer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Elizabeth Wurtzel1967-2020
  American writer and journalist
  New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
• James Weldon Johnson1871-1938
  American writer and activist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Lillian Wald1867-1940
  American nurse and activist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Claude McKay1889-1948
  Jamaican American writer, poet
  Calvary Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Christopher Morley1890-1957
  American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
  Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, NY
• Joe Simon1913-2011
  American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher
  Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY
• Dana Reeve1961-2006
  American actress and singer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Damon Runyon1880-1946
  American writer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Rufus Wilmot Griswold1815-1857
  American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi1842-1906
  American physician, writer and suffragist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Lorenz Hart1895-1943
  American lyricist
  Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY
• Helen Levitt1913-2009
  American photographer
  Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Max Weber1881-1961
  American Cubist painter
  Mount Ararat Cemetery, Lindenhurst, NY
• Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.1867-1932
  American theatrical impresario
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Diana Barrymore1921-1960
  American actress
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Lionel Trilling1905-1975
  American literary critic
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• DeWitt Clinton1769-1828
  American politician
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• John La Farge1835-1910
  American artist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Felix Adler1851-1933
  German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
  Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
• Abraham Goldfaden1840-1908
  Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright
  Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Helene Hanff1916-1997
  American screenwriter and writer
  Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Don Marquis1878-1937
  American humorist
  Maple Grove Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Finley Peter Dunne1867-1936
  American humorist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Alan King1927-2004
  American comedian and actor
  Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Peter Cooper1791-1883
  American politician and businessman
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• George Jean Nathan1882-1958
  American drama critic and magazine editor
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY

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