JLo's Bronx
Possibly the most successful and famous person who was born in The Bronx is Jennifer Lopez, popularly known as JLo. The Bronx is one of New York's five boroughs. It was named after the Bronck family, Dutch farmers who owned a huge tract of ... [... more]
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Boston Teran
Boston Teran was born and raised in the South Bronx. He lives in California. God Is a Bullet Boston Teran [... more]
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Mara Bergman
Mara Bergman was born in the Bronx and grew up in Wantagh, New York. She is the author of Oliver Who Would Not Sleep, illustrated by Nick Maland. Mara Bergman lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, with her family. [... more]
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Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Martin Classen has illustrated Tide Pools by Ronald Rood. He lives in the Bronx, NY. [... more]
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Carl Capotorto
What's in a name? For Carl Capotorto, everything is in a name. The literal translation from Italian to English of Capotorto is "twisted head." This is no accident. Carl grew up in the Bronx in the 1960s and '70s with the Mangialardis ("eat [... more]
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Steven J. Phillips
On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his ... [... more]
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Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok was born in the Bronx in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as ... [... more]
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Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson has won three Hugos, a Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award. He has written twenty books, sixteen of which have been printed in ten languages. Born in the Bronx, he holds a bachelor's degree in English from the State University ... [... more]
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Stephanie Schwam
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was born in the Bronx but lived and worked for most of his life in England. He made fifteen films including Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket. Editor Stephanie Schwam has produced many ... [... more]
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Sherrie Krantz
Bronx born, Sherrie Krantz grew up in New York and attended the University of Buffalo. She spent the first leg of her career as a public relations executive, first at Calvin Klein Inc. and then at Donna Karan International. From there, Sherrie ... [... more]
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Lloyd Ultan
A native Bronxite takes us back to the heyday years of the Bronx. The Beautiful Bronx 1920-1950 Lloyd Ultan [... more]
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Harry Mazer
Harry Mazer's The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never ... [... more]
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