Artists
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| Name | Born | Profession | Best Known For | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain Rodriguez | 1940 | cartoonist | Trashman comic strip | Buffalo |
| Paul Horgan | 1903 | author | won Pulitzer Prize for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History in 1955 and Lamy of Santa Fe in 1976 | Buffalo |
| Ruben Santiago-Hudson | 1956 | playwright, actor | wrote Lackawanna Blues | Lackawanna |
| A.R. Gurney | 1930 | playwright | wrote Love Letters and The Dining Room | Buffalo |
| Barbara Smith | b. 1946 | American | Lesbian feminist, writer | L [1] |
Born Elsewhere but Raised in Buffalo
edit| Name | Born | Profession | Best Known For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ishmael Reed | 1938 in Chattanooga, TN | author, poet, essayist | wrote Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down in 1969 and Mumbo Jumbo in 1972 |
- ^ Joseph, Gloria I.; Lewis, Jill (1986), Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives, South End Press, p. 36, ISBN 0896083179