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Belleville, New Jersey

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Nicky Arnold Melito

Russell Baker

Anthony Buccino

Nicole T. Canfora

Joseph Rocco Cervasio

Mark Cervasio

Stephen Crane

Beth Fitzgerald

Frances Goodrich

Gene Hutmaker

Michelle Mittelstadt

Norman Price

Diane Ruggiero

Eugene Sharkey

Andrew E. Svenson

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 Russell Baker

Pulitzer Prize winner - Growing Up

Born: 1925, Loudoun County, Virginia
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times.

In 1993, he replaced Alistair Cooke  as host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.

Collections of Baker's columns include An American in Washington (1961) and Poor Russell's Almanac (1971); his two memoirs are Growing Up (1982) and The Good Times (1989).

Growing Up Includes Belleville references

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 Frances Goodrich

Pulitzer Prize winner - The Diary of Anne Frank

Goodrich & Hackett

Born Dec. 21, 1890, Belleville N.J. - Jan. 29, 1984

  A writer who worked on more than 40 films, from
After The Thin Man (1936) to Diary of Anne Frank,
Father of the Bride (1950) and Father of the Bride II (1995)
New York Times Filmography

Albert Hackett writing partner/spouse
Feb. 16, 1900 NYC - March 16, 1995

Buy the Biography:

The Real Nick and Nora Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett,
Writers of Stage and Screen Classics

by David L. Goodrich

Frank Capra's 'It's A Wonderful Life'

Book review by Anthony Buccino

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Nicky Arnold Melito

Belleville High School graduate overcame cerebral palsy to become a stand up comedian. Nicky Arnold then wrote for Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" monologues. On television he  produced "Welcome Back, Kotter", wrote and produced "Private Benjamin", worked on "The Dean Martin Show", The Cher Show". Arnold was story editor on "Calucci's Department" starring James Coco, and "Ball Four".

Source - Arnold's high school buddy Joseph Rocco Cervasio

Nicky Arnold - The Internet Movie Database

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 Nicole T. Canfora

Images of America: Belleville

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Norman Price

HILLSIDE PLEASURE PARK, Belleville, New Jersey - by Norman James Price, the history of one of the largest amusement parks ever built in New Jersey,

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Joseph Rocco Cervasio

Bad News on the Doorstep

NOW or NEVER: The 11 Secrets of Arimathea

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Mark Cervasio

Life's a Ball with Billy the Baseball

Online Review

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Gene Hutmaker

BANNED in the BRONX The Yankee Haters Memoirs 1953-2005

 The book chronicles the year-by-year account of each baseball season with little or no mention of the success of the New York Yankees, but rather a highlight of their failures. 

Hutmaker lived in Belleville 1945 - 1968, attended School 7, and graduated Class of 1963

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Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl's Spiritual Journey by Linda Mercadante

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Keep Your Ear on the Ball

Genevieve Petrillo,

Lea Lyon, illustrator

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 Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage And Four Stories

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

The Open Boat and Other Stories

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 Beth Fitzgerald

The Belleville native is a prominent business news reporter who worked for many years at the Star Ledger

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 Anthony Buccino

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War - a Brief History

Belleville Sons Honor Roll

A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Rambling Round

AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty

Voices on the Bus

One Morning In Jersey City

Retrieving Labrador Days

Books in print and ebooks

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 Andrew E. Svenson

Andrew E. Svenson is quoted from "Something About the Author", Vol. 26.
Born May 8, 1910 in Belleville, N.J.; Svenson published under a number of pseudonyms which he shared with other writers.

He contributed titles to the "Hardy Boys" and "Bobbsey Twins" series, and also initiated three major series himself: "The Happy Hollisters," "The Tolliver Family," and "Brett King."

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 Dr. Eugene Sharkey

Sharkey was the author of a 552-page book, When Titans Truly Were, Westminster College and the Second World War. Professor of history at Westminster College. The Belleville, N.J. native was awarded research and teaching fellowships at Rutgers & Fairleigh Dickenson.

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 Diane Ruggiero

That's Life - TV series 2000

CBS' "That's Life"; Creator Diane Ruggierio
"... Ruggierio, a native of Belleville, N.J., was working as a waitress and a part-time writer ... "

Veronica Mars - TV series 2006

The Sound of Slyness - Movie

Wild Card - TV series

Ruggiero - Internet Movie Data Base

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 Michelle Mittelstadt
mmittelstadt@dallasnews.com

Political reporter at the Dallas Morning News

A graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism, she began her career with the Courier Herald in Dublin, Ga. as a reporter, later rising to managing editor. A native of Belleville, N.J., she grew up in Europe.

Link to the Dallas Morning News

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Nutley Little Theatre

UP POPS THE DEVIL
 
By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Directed by Julie Jin; October 2009

Read more about Belleville-born Pulitzer Prize winner Frances Goodrich

The Real Nick and Nora Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett,

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