New York Writers Hall of Fame

New York Writers Hall of Fame . A project of the Empire State Center for the Book that annually grants membership to several writers, living or dead, who have marked the cultural history of that great city.

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Famous figures included

Several famous personalities have been inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame , including Walt Whitman and Herman Melville , Washington Irving and Henry James , Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Bishop , Marianne Moore and Mary McCarthy , Langston Hughes and James Baldwin , among others.

The Cuban poet, essayist, journalist and politician José Martí (1853-1895) was named a new member of the Hall in June 2018, becoming the second Hispanic writer to enter this exclusive hall, after Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos did so in 2011 .

Along with the Cuban Apostle, five other writers were inducted, two of them also deceased: Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), American lyricist, who created many of the most beloved songs in the United States together with his brother George Gershwin , and EL Konigsburg (1930-2013), author of children’s books.

The other three authors are historian and journalist Russell Shorto (1959), Pulitzer Prize -winning novelist Colson Whitehead (1969), and Jacqueline Woodson (1963), United States Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

2010

· James Baldwin (1924–1987)

· Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

· Robert Caro (b. 1935)

· Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)

· Mary Gordon (b. 1949)

· Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

· Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

· Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

· Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991)

· Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

· E.B. White (1899–1985)

· Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

2011

· John Ashbery (1927-2017)

· Willa Cather (1873–1947)

· Julia de Burgos (1914–1953)

· Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)

· Paula Fox (1923–2017)

· Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)

· Madeleine L’Engle (1918–2007)

· Herman Melville (1819–1891)

· Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

2012

· John Cheever (1912–1982)

· Hart Crane (1899–1932)

· E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015)

· Edna Ferber (1885–1968)

· Pete Hamill (b. 1935)

· Washington Irving (1783–1859)

· Henry James (1843–1916)

· Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

· Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

· Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

· Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

· Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989)

· Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)

· Richard Wright (1908–1960)

2013

· James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

· Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

· Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)

· Alice McDermott (b. 1953)

· Walter Mosley (b. 1952)

· Miguel Piñero (1946–1988)

· Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)

· Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)

2014

· Russell Banks (b. 1940)

· Mary Higgins Clark (b. 1929)

· Nora Ephron (1941–2012)

· Alice Hoffman (b. 1952)

· Maurice Kenny (1929–2016)

· Rex Stout (1886–1975)

· James Thurber (1894–1961)

2015

· Isaac Asimov (1920?–1992)

· Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

· Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983)

· Dawn Powell (1896–1965)

· Francine Prose (b. 1947)

· David Remnick (b. 1958)

· Colm Tóibín (b. 1955)

2016

· Roger Angell (b. 1920)

· Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

· Roz Chast (b. 1954)

· Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942)

· Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)

· Don Marquis (1878–1937)

· Grace Paley (1922–2007)

· Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)

2017

· Ron Chernow (b. 1949)

· Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)

· William Kennedy (b. 1928)

· Christopher Morley (1890–1957)

· Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)

· Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903)

· Lillian Ross (1918-2017)

2018

· Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)

· The Königsburg (1930-2013)

· Jose Marti (1853-1895)

· Russell Shorto (b. 1959)

· Colson Whitehead (b. 1969)

· Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963)