Artists

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Musician Jimmy Somerville
 
Software engineer Joel Spolsky
 
Artist William Spratling
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

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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
  1. ^ Joseph, Gloria I.; Lewis, Jill (1986), Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives, South End Press, p. 36, ISBN 0896083179