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Notable people, past and present who have lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut or are closely associated with the town, listed by area in which they are best known: ==Authors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters== *Silvio A. Bedini (1917-2007), retired Smithsonian Institution curator, author, born and raised in Ridgefield *Howard Fast (1914-2003), novelist〔()"Notable Ridgefielders" A–F page, at Jack Sanders' Web site about Ridgefield history〕 *Ira Joe Fisher (1947-), CBS weatherman and poet (''Some Holy Weight in the Village Air'')〔() Internet Movie DataBase Web site, Web page titled "Biography for Ira Joe Fisher" accessed August 20, 2006〕 *Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), poet, critic and translator; he and his wife Sally called Ridgefield home and many sources repeat the assertion, though their residence was located in neighboring Redding〔Numerous sources state that the Fitzgerald's home was on Seventy Acre Road and that Flannery O'Connor lived with them there, including, ''Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being'', selected and edited by Sally Fitzgerald (1979, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), address from the top of a letter from O'Connor: "70 Acre Road/Ridgefield, Conn./October 6, '49", page 15; Hyson, Lynn, "Flannery O'Connor Biographer gets glimpse of author's time here", article in ''The Redding Pilot'', February 1, 2007, page A020: "The scene at the home of Janet August and Amy Atamian on a recent Saturday resembled a salon, true to the tradition of their house on Seventy Acre Road. Around the massive stone fireplace the two had gathered neighbors and friends to compare notes about the time writer Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) lived here.";() Web page titled "Flannery O'Connor / Lesson Plan Ideas for Teachers" from "Flannery O'Connor-Andalusa Farm Foundation" website ("she was introduced to Robert and Sally Fitzgerald, with whom she lived for over a year in Ridgefield, Connecticut.") accessed July 12, 2007; () Map of Redding showing 70 Acre Road entirely within Redding (between Mountain Road and Umpawaug Road in the central part of western side of town; click on map to enlarge), at the "History of Redding" Web site, accessed July 12, 2007〕 *Tom Gilroy, screenwriter, actor and film producer, graduated from Ridgefield High School in 1978 *Max Gunther (1926–1998), journalist and writer *Tim Herlihy (1966-), screenwriter, film producer, former head writer of ''Saturday Night Live'' *Roger Kahn (1927-), author *Irene Kampen (1923–1998), novelist and journalist *Richard Kluger (1934-), author *Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987), playwright, ambassador, politician, and wife of Henry Luce *Andy Luckey (1965-), children's book author *John Ames Mitchell (1844–1918), novelist, founder of ''Life magazine'' *Alan Nevins (1891–1971), the only writer to win the Pulitzer prize for historical biography twice (on Grover Cleveland and Hamilton Fish) *Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), writer often said to have lived in town when she was a boarder of Robert Fitzgerald's from 1949–1951, although Fitzgerald actually lived in neighboring Redding〔 *Eugene O'Neill (1988-1953), Nobel Prize-winning playwright, owned Brook Farm on North Salem Road from 1922 to 1927 *Brad Parks (1974-), author *Cornelius J. Ryan (1920-1974), author *Mark Salzman (1959-), author and actor who wrote about the town in his novel ''Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia'' *Richard Scarry (1919-1994), children's author *Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), author and artist〔()"Where Americana and Aesthetics Mingle," article by Lisa Prevost, part of series "If You're Thinking of Living In" in the Real Estate section of ''The New York Times'', March 14, 2004, accessed August 29, 2006 "Current residents include Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator; Harvey Fierstein, the actor and playwright; and Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist."〕 *Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-1998), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'', 1959) *Alvin Toffler (1928-), futurist, author *Max Wilk (1920-2011), author *Bari Wood (1936-), author 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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