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A number of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford--lived and done the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for a long time to come. Pollock found there a link with nature that inspired some of the most significant painting of the time. James Schuyler and Frank O'Hara found companionship and raw material for his or her poems on South Main Street and the location train. Willem de Kooning rode his bike every day to Gardiner's Bay, where in fact the light informed every brushstroke he put to canvas from the early 1960s on. Through searching, lyrical vignettes, critic and poet Robert Long mixes storytelling with history to recreate these lives and events that shaped American art and literature.
