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**__Ridgefield Authors Past and Present__**
Ridgefield–dubbed "the Lenox of Connecticut" in the early 1900s--has a proud literary past, with some of the most prominent authors and publishing figures of their time, including: legendary publishers who had summer houses here, such as E.P. Dutton and Henry Holt; influential magazine editors such as Henry Luce; authors–many of whom wrote some of their most important work here–such as Nobel Prize-winner Eugene O’Neill, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Allan Nevins, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Robert Lewis Taylor, futurist Alvin Toffler, novelist Howard Fast, the notorious newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler (himself a Pulitzer recipient), journalist/playwright Clare Booth Luce, popular history writer Cornelius Ryan, as well as Roz Chast and Maurice Sendak.

For information about these and other literary folk with a Ridgefield connection, follow the links below. This collaborative directory is a project of the Ridgefield Library, started in conjunction with the Town of Ridgefield’s 300th anniversary celebration in 2008, and updated in 2011. We invite you to add details you may have about these and other authors who have lived in Ridgefield, however briefly. We welcome reminiscences, links to authors’ websites, and other comments. To contribute to this project, please contact us at 203-438-2282 extension 12004, or via e-mail at camitchell@ridgefieldlibrary.org.

//Special thanks to author Victoria Secunda for researching and updating this unique resource. //
Auerbach, Jessica Aurthers, Dona M. Babbin, Jacqueline Bacon, Peggy Balmer, Randall Barricelli, John Bassett, Preston R. Becker, Bruce Bedini, Silvio Belden, Chris Benton, Suzanne Bercovici, Konrad Biagotti, Aldo Blum, Howard Boyd, Thomas Alexander Bracken, Paul J Brennan, George Brewster, Gurdon Brewster, Todd Brickell, Henry Herschel Briody, Dan Briody, Michelle @Burns, Eric Busino, Orlando Calle, Paul Caplan, Arthur Carriere, Winifred Carter, Samuel Cary, Melbert B. Chast, Roz Chotzinoff, Samuel Cohen, Rich Collins, Judy Cullander, Jean Daley, Robert Dashefsky, H. Steven Davidson, Sharon M. Davis, John H. Davis, Seth Dean, Morton De Giere, Carol DelFavero, Lawrence W Detzer, David Devine, Thea DeYoung, Carmine Coco DiPaola, Ray Diffrient, Niels Duff, Beth Longware Eisenkramer, Eric Ellis, Darwin Eustace, Nicole Farrar, Geraldine Farrell, Anne Fast, Howard Fields, David A. Fierstein, Harvey Fisher, Ira Joe Fornshell, Antoinette Franzen, Bill Fry, Varian Gabrielson, Mark J. Garcia, Claire Watson Gilkes, Lillian Barnard Gilroy, Tom Goodrich, Charles Augustus Goodrich, Samuel Griswold Goulart, Frances Sheridan Goulart, Ron Grafton, Samuel Grozinger, Stephan Gunther, Max Haight, Jessica Hastings, Richard P. Hazel, Paul Heller, John H. Hurley, Robert F. Jancz-Urban, Velya Janick, Herbert Jones III, Keith Marshall Jones, Nalini Kahn, Roger Kampen, Irene Kenyon, Laura Kluger, Phyllis Kluger, Richard Knox, Bob Kraus, Robert Krebs, Laurie Lane, Joe Lehmann, Alexandra Leir, Henry J. Levine, Evan Libby, Megan McNeill Lischke, Bette Lombardo, Dean Luce, Clare Booth Luke, Mary MacArthur, Robert Maira, Thomas G. Marakas, Thalia Mathieson, Sherrie Mazur, Drew McCaffrey, Isabella David McShea, Susanna Hofmann Merlino, Linda Miller, Simone Mincer, Deanne Mitchell, John Ames Mohadjer, Nina Morris, Geoffrey James Mulligan, Hugh Nebel, Frederick Nelson, Suzanne Marie Nelson, Tammy Nevins, Allan Norman, John Odone, Jamison O'Donoghue, Andrew O'Neill, Eugene Oskinson, Hildegard Hawthorne Pankenier, Charles Parks, Brad Peck, Louise D. Pegler, Westbrook Peraino, Kevin Pilbrow, Richard Power, Melissa Powers, Michael E. Prino, Travis Regnery, Katy Riche, Robert Roughan, Howard Ryan, Cornelius Ryan, Kathryn Morgan Salkin, Lauren Salzman, Mark Sanden, John Howard Sanders, Jack Saroyan, Aram Sayers, Ken W. Scarry, Richard Schwartz, Evan I. Schwartz, Stephen Scott, John Scripps, Robert P. Secunda, Shel Secunda, Victoria Sendak, Maurice Sendak, Philip Shane, Margaret Smith Shane, Ted Sherman, Stratford Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone Snellings, Lilibet Sorenson, Theodore C. Spielgeman, Peter Stern, Jane and Michael Stern, Martha Dodd Stockli, Albert Stroili, Paul Taylor, Robert Lewis Thomas, Roseanne Daryl Toffler, Alvin Trahey, Jane Tropea, Philip Tuccio, Joseph Tucker, Abigail Tureaud, Alexander P. Jr. Venus, Richard E. Vaughn, Robert Wahl, M. Stoessel Walsh, Thomas F.M. Wardell, Steven Weingast, David E. Welsh, Glenna M. Wheeler, John N. Widden, Caron Kamps Wilk, Max Willis, Lillian Wilson, Christine K. Wise, James Waterman Wohlforth, Mildred Gilman Wohlforth, Robert Wood, Bari Wood, Lee B. Woods, Alison Wyden, Peter Young, Jennifer