Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Like his fellow New Yorker Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead weaves gracefully through genres with each of his books, but Sag Harbor, billed as his "autobiographical fourth novel," seems positioned to be his breakout book--which is a funny thing for a writer who has already received so many major literary awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" grant and being short-listed for the Pulitzer...

For 300 years, Sag Harbor has been a prism reflecting facets of American history, from its heyday as a whaling port worthy of mention in Moby-Dick, to a factory town shipping out Bulova watches to its latest reincarnation, as an alternative retreat to the exclusive Hamptons...

Voices of Sag Harbor collects more than 80 reminiscences about life in Sag Harbor, NY. It's a broad range of voices and backgrounds, all bound together by their fierce attachment to Sag Harbor and their awareness that despite the many profound changes that have taken place over the past several decades, this is a village that still holds them close...

Sag Harbor, the old whaling port on the southfork of Long Island, is second only to GreenwichVillage as America’s premiere literary village.From early visitors James Fenimore Cooper andHerman Melville to twentieth-century settlerslike John Steinbeck and Wilfrid Sheed, thisunique town has been a magnet for America’sbest writers, journalists, and playwrights...

The Old Burying Ground at Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York - Compiled by Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski and Members of the Committee for the Old Burying Ground. The history of this exceptional Burying Ground dates to its opening in 1767 and includes a Revolutionary fort that was built on the site...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc...